Alan Saunders

I think it's everything that's happening in Pittsburgh.

I mean, the Mike McCarthy press conference and then quickly going into all these coaching hires.

You know, I think it was really hard without having an idea of any of the coaching staff to really envision players

in a Steelers scheme but I think you know you hear Mike McCarthy say we're going to keep the 3-4 defense and then he hires Patrick Graham and now I can kind of say okay this is going to be the same scheme mostly it'll be familiar alignments now you can start to look at some of these guys and say oh okay now this player looks like a Steelers guy and so

I think it was really hard.

I think it's still really probably tough on offense.

But you know what Mike McCarthy's going to do.

But now that we kind of got the defensive scheme figured out, now we can really look and start to dig into these players in a more significant way.

I don't think it will give you any surprise to know that Andy Weidel spent most of his time watching the linemen.

That is just who Andy Weidel is.

They could be drafting 11 wide receivers and a quarterback with their 12 picks, and I think he still would have been looking at the linemen

There are other guys in the front office there as well, and, of course, all the scouts.

But, yeah, Andy heading things up in Mobile.

Definitely very – almost everyone I talked to over the week said, man, it's weird without Mike Tomlin here.

Not just from a Steelers perspective, but from a Senior Bowl perspective.

I mean, he was a big part of this event the way he embraced it.

Not every head coach is like that.

Most of them aren't.

And it definitely makes my job a little tougher.

Mike didn't make it much of a secret as to who he was looking at and who he was interested in during this process.