Mike Tomlin said flipping Bud Dupree and T.J. Watt was to help both guys out and play to their strengths. Their success might not have been directly correlated to their new sides but one game in, the results are promising.
At his weekly Tuesday press conference, Tomlin praised both players for their performance.
“I will say I’m not surprised that he had an impactful game,” Tomlin said of Watt. “It was schematically set up for him to impact the game. And he did.”
Watt became the first Steelers player to record four sacks in a game since Joey Porter in 2001.