That he has become synonymous with various aphorisms has served as a double-edged sword for Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin. While he certainly gets plenty of credit for his ability to motivate, at the same time, he is also judged by the standard of his own phrases, and it provides easy ammunition when his team is not succeeding for accusing him of being full of empty rhetoric.
Still, he knows his way around an effective zinger. And I’m not quite sure I’ve ever heard this one that the recently retired Joe Haden shared while appearing on the Rich Eisen Show yesterday.