If you can’t relate to your players and lead a locker room, any head coach will find it hard to keep their job for long. Being a head coach in the NFL is a unique, difficult role. Not only does a coach need to understand how to manage a game but also keep control of his locker room. Few have done that better than longtime Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin.
Miles Killebrew is coming up on his fifth year in Pittsburgh, and he’s had plenty of time to experience Mike Tomlin’s coaching. On Wednesday, Killebrew had some high praise for his head coach.