Ahkello Witherspoon Evasive When Asked About Practice Reps, Playing Time

One of the first skills one should expect to learn when joining the Pittsburgh Steelers is how to answer questions in front of the media—or rather, perhaps, how to not answer them. Head coach Mike Tomlin has become a master of answering questions by not answering them, though more recently, he has been more direct about his non-answers, to the point where actual answers are met with surprise, in which he takes a certain glee.

He doesn’t do it just because he enjoys it (although I suspect he does), but also because he understands that it serves the team no benefit to put information out there that isn’t necessary that can be used by opponents. Like, for example, what the team’s plan is for…