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Mike Tomlin Hints At Keeping Things Simple In Secondary After Sunday’s Success: ‘If You’re Smart, You Utilize That Information’

Here’s an interesting little nugget that I picked up from Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin’s pre-game press conference yesterday. This is on the speculative side, I admit, but his response to a question about the simplified scheme on the back end yesterday caught my attention.

Asked if there was anything that he could carry forward from Sunday’s performance, during which he employed simplified schemes and assignments because of the limitations and experience within the system of the personnel involved, Tomlin’s response seemed to hint at doing more to keep things simply moving forward.

“I think every time you step into a stadium you learn something about yourself”, he said in response, via the team’s website, “whether it’s division of labor, use of people, or schematics.