With all due respect to Allen Iverson, let’s talk about practice for a moment.
Practices are not games, no matter how much they might look like it at any given moment. The Pittsburgh Steelers conduct plenty of drills that head coach Mike Tomlin would describe as football-like, but it’s never truly football. A case in point was proffered yesterday during the sixth team session in the final training camp practice.
On the sixth play of the session, NT Breiden Fehoko was working the pass rush against a Mitch Trubisky-led offense when he got his hand up in the air and tipped the ball.