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Joe Schobert Calls Mike Tomlin A ‘Great Motivator’ After Pre-Game Message That LBs Would Decide The Day

If there is one thing that Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin likes, it’s linebackers. After all, he has used the team’s first-round draft choice on a linebacker six times out of 15 classes, including three inside linebackers in Lawrence Timmons (2007), Ryan Shazier (2014), and most recently, Devin Bush (2019).

It’s only natural for a head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers to have an affinity for a position that has been so vital to the team’s history, including Hall of Famers. And he had a message to his inside linebackers in part of his pre-game ritual, telling them that the day’s game on Sunday would be decided by the linebackers.