ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- "I expect he'll be doing James Harrison-like things."
Impossible to forget that one. A handful of years ago, Mike Tomlin had been asked how much he'd anticipated to get out of a then-aging Deebo, and rather than insult the intelligence of everyone in that setting, he responded, verbatim, with what's above. And in the moment, at least as I saw it, he'd summarized in a a few syllables the scope of his forever curious, often contentious relationships with one of the most mercurial figures in franchise history.
In essence, I know who he is, everyone knows who he is, and let's all just get out of the big man's way, all right?