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Former Steeler says the quiet part out loud about Mike Tomlin's coaching style
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When former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin stepped down after the end of last season, half the fanbase cheered and the other half booed. This was the effect Tomlin had on his players as well. For every former Steeler who praises Tomlin's coaching style and impact on him, there's another who pulls back the curtain on what thing were really like.
One of those players is Joe Haden . Haden talked about what it was like playing for Tomlin on his podcast with fellow former Steeler James Harrison . He and Harrison both talked about the problems with Tomlin's coaching style and favoring certain players.
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"When I got to Pittsburgh, it was years and years into Coach Tomlin being there, and the one thing I could where you needed a new voice [was] the accountability," Haden said. "Everything needs to be tight. There was a looseness that was going around. That looseness is a reason where errors come in."
"When the vet leeway is getting to a point where it turns almost blatant disrespect to where your team is seeing stud like, 'We can't be moving like this as a team, vet aside.' When you get a new coach in there, he's not rocking. You set a standard from the T.J. Watts to the Ben Roethlisbergers to anybody on the team where there's no leeway for nobody."
Harrison even went so far as to stay the standard was not the standard, a play on Tomlin's mantra, and that the standard flowed depending on who the player was.
This article originally appeared on Steelers Wire: Former Steeler says the quiet part out loud about Mike Tomlin's coaching style
