Tomlin's First Team Meeting: Coach made his expectations quite clear
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin talks after being introduced as the team's new coach Jan. 22. Tomlin began the Steelers' offseason workout program without fanfare.
Coach Mike Tomlin had his first meeting with his new team yesterday as the Steelers began their offseason workout program with little fanfare at their South Side training facility.
So little, in fact, that Tomlin declined interview requests. A Steelers spokesman explained that Tomlin did not want to make a bigger deal out of his first meeting with his team than what it was by speaking publicly.
He saved that for his players.
"He laid down the law," wide receiver Cedrick Wilson said.
Wilson was the only player available to the media after Tomlin spoke with the players and they went through workouts. He said 85 percent of the roster attended and that more players were traveling to Pittsburgh to begin training, something Tomlin strongly urged them to do.
Wilson said Tomlin told them that "you can go train in Orlando or you can go train in Arizona where it's a nice climate, whatever, but you can't get out of those places what you can get here and that's football."
"And that's what he's preaching," Wilson said, "and that's what he's coaching. A guy like myself, I'm definitely taking heed of it.
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