Mike Tomlin is Hard Knocks’ Breakout Star | Steelers Morning Rush
Steelers Morning Rush: Is George Pickens playing his way out of Pittsburgh with his outside-the-whistles antics?
Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it’s the Steelers’ appearance on the HBO series Hard Knocks and why Mike Tomlin might be the breakout start of the show.
The series is supposed to focus on all four AFC North teams down the stretch run of the 2024 season, but the Steelers are the team with the biggest audience of the four, the Steelers are in first place, and the Steelers have never allowed anyone the kind of access that the Hard Knocks crew has been given. Mike Tomlin has been the team’s head coach for 18 years, but people will be seeing him operate in team meetings and at practice for the very first time.
Compared to his AFC North compatriots, especially struggling Kevin Stefanski in Cleveland and Zac Taylor in Cincinnati, Tomlin is must-see-TV, and the producers will almost certainly go back to him over and over again. Tomlin will absolutely hate it, but it just might make him the favorite for the 2024 NFL Coach of the Year Award.
Alan breaks it down.
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