There is no more singular defining trait about Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin than his reputation for blunt honesty and sincerity. Basically every player on his team who talks about him talks about how he’s always straightforward with his players, and how that’s what they respect about him. It’s a large part of what makes up his reputation as a ‘players coach’.
We’ve heard guys like Cameron Heyward and Joe Haden say this a lot. Yet another one who talked about it recently was wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, who is coming off his third season, a rather disappointing campaign physically and statistically, and no doubt his coach had a few things to say to him over the course of the year about that.