stillers4me
08-04-2013, 08:41 AM
Something quite rare has occurred at Saint Vincent College the past week of Steelers training camp, something not seen with this kind of regularity since Chuck Noll brought his teams to Latrobe in the summer.
The Steelers are tackling in practice, and not just in the annual goal-line drill that ended the workout Saturday.
Mike Tomlin has run them through live 11-on-11 drills at least once each day, starting Monday when they pulled on the pads for the first time.
That is old-old-school, something Bill Cowher did not even do. You would have to go back to the 1980s to see that many real, live tackling practice sessions when Noll's players wore no numbers on their jerseys and twice-daily practices were common..........
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/steelers/steelers-notebook-tomlin-takes-a-page-out-of-the-noll-playbook-698043/#ixzz2b0WlmtLJ
The Steelers are tackling in practice, and not just in the annual goal-line drill that ended the workout Saturday.
Mike Tomlin has run them through live 11-on-11 drills at least once each day, starting Monday when they pulled on the pads for the first time.
That is old-old-school, something Bill Cowher did not even do. You would have to go back to the 1980s to see that many real, live tackling practice sessions when Noll's players wore no numbers on their jerseys and twice-daily practices were common..........
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/steelers/steelers-notebook-tomlin-takes-a-page-out-of-the-noll-playbook-698043/#ixzz2b0WlmtLJ