Pittsburgh Steelers’ head coach Mike Tomlin often likes to talk about the importance of his players “not warming up to it” in games in the NFL. That means coming out and being ready to go from the opening whistle.
That wasn’t exactly the case for the Steelers on Sunday in Cleveland on both sides of the football.
A timeout burned on the second play from scrimmage defensively because of too many men on the field due to communication issues, and then a lackluster first two plays from the offense pinned deep in its own end showed for NFL defensive end and current podcast host Chris Long that the Steelers simply weren’t ready to play.