Prior to last week’s comments at the start of training camp, we had not heard from Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin in a bit of a while. In the downtime between then and now, the NFL and the NFLPA agreed that there would be no preseason games played during the 2020 buildup to the regular season.
Tomlin is the sort of coach who loves the preseason—and we here happen to be the sort of fans and amateur analysts who love it as well—so whatever his past comments were will have been altered by the new reality. He was asked about how the lack of a preseason changes his thoughts and plans for training camp this year.