When it comes to the unusual situation that required lung surgery for Steelers linebacker T.J. Watt, coach Mike Tomlin didn\u2019t know much last week. And he doesn\u2019t know much this week.<\/p>\n
Meeting with reporters on Tuesday, Tomlin addressed Watt\u2019s status while discussing the team\u2019s injury situation in advance of Week 16 at the Detroit Lions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got no new news on T.J.,\u201d Tomlin said. \u201cI\u2019m sure I will a little later in the week, but I hadn\u2019t heard any new updates regarding his availability or what that looks like as he starts to work his way back to us this week. And so no real news there.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was later asked if Watt has returned to the facility.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if he\u2019s been in the facility yet, because I\u2019ve been in the dark room in the back,\u201d Tomlin said. \u201cHe might be in the facility as we speak, and so I don\u2019t have a lot of the answers to that, and I was just trying to be transparent when I said I didn\u2019t have any new information as I stood here today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tomlin then was asked if he knew anything more about the dry-needling technique that reportedly caused the lung injury, and whether it would or wouldn\u2019t continue within the building.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no new information regarding that,\u201d Tomlin said, \u201cnone whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n
On one hand, Tomlin has a lot of work to do to get ready for the next game, especially on a short week. On the other hand, Watt is one of the most important players on the team, and his injury happened in a very unusual way. Some coaches would want to know everything there is to know about what happened, how it happened, and how something like that can be prevented from happening again.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard not to wonder whether Tomlin has chosen to keep as far away as he can from something that could become a problem for the organization, once the time comes to get to the bottom of the rabbit hole as to how a hole ended up being punctured into Watt\u2019s lung. If\/when it becomes a grievance or a lawsuit or any other mess that requires statements and testimony and other things that would distract Tomlin from his primary job duties, it makes sense for him \u2014 if, as it appears, he doesn\u2019t know anything at all \u2014 to keep it that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to the unusual situation that required lung surgery for Steelers linebacker T.J. Watt, coach Mike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-350688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}