If you were to make a list of the best cornerbacks to ever play for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who is in your top five? If you don’t include Ike Taylor, you probably weren’t paying attention. Taylor spent all 12 of his NFL seasons with the Steelers after the team drafted this converted running back in the third round of the 2003 NFL draft.
In a recent interview, Taylor spoke about what life was like with head coach Mike Tomlin and his responses were, well enlightening.
Well, I’m trying to think of how to say this. Porter was Cowher’s guy. But when Tomlin let me do stuff Porter was like, “I thought I had it good with Cowher!”
In training camp, he had so much trust in me. He just told me not to make him look bad. And I didn’t. He gave me a long leash and sometimes just took the leash off. He had so much trust in me.
I did so much stuff, man. Let me put it to you like this. I didn’t have to break any rules. I couldn’t break any rules, because I didn’t have any to break!
This is fascinating information given how things went down with former Steeler Antonio Brown. Given his antics since leaving the Steelers, most assumed Tomlin gave Brown tons of leeway for his entitled attitude and did it to keep him on track on the field. It sounds like Brown wasn’t the only player who Tomlin have a very long leash to during that same period of time.
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