For what seems like the umpteenth time, former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison says that Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin is to blame for the drama that occurred in Pittsburgh's locker room this past season.
However, this time, Harrison seems to make a good point rather than simply attack Tomlin out of bitterness:
“I start off at this same thing with [Mike] Tomlin. The head guy has to be the one that takes charge,” Harrison said, according to Jeremy Bergman of NFL.com. “I believe it’s fault on, even with my situation, it’s fault on me. It’s fault on Tomlin. It’s fault on the team. It’s got to this point because Tomlin has allowed a certain amount of things to go on and rather players take advantage of that or step beyond that, it’s got to a point where it’s so far out that now he can’t reign it back in so to speak. And with that being the case it’s Tomlin. It could be some blame on A.B. [Antonio Brown] It could be some blame on Ben. It can go around.”
Those are actually all salient points by Harrison, who requested his release from the Steelers in 2017 and went on to sign with the New England Patriots that season due to a lack of playing time.
The 40-year-old, who did not play in 2018, even put some blame on himself for the way things ended between him and Pittsburgh during the 2017 campaign, but he says that the figure who should take the most responsibility for whatever goes wrong in the Steelers' locker room is Tomlin, because he is supposed to be the captain of the ship.
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