One of the most unusual aspects regarding the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense is the mystery and ambiguity with regards to who is actually running the show. While it has been well-established that head coach Mike Tomlin became more involved—arguably radically more involved—with the day-to-day details of the unit once they moved on from Dick LeBeau as defensive coordinator, it has never actually been concretely established through sourced reporting that Tomlin was actually running the defense over Keith Butler, who took over for LeBeau in the coordinator role.
According to Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, however, it was the case during Sunday’s loss to the Cleveland Browns that Tomlin was, in fact, calling “all the defensive signals” against the Cleveland Browns.