Brian Batko

Now, I don't know if he was the guy pulling up numbers or...

viewing video to say, hey, make this call or don't, but he had the flag on him, and then I suppose he would hand it to Raheem Morris, and he would chuck it for the Falcons.

That's very interesting.

Did we ever know who Tomlin's guy was there?

I think he tried to intentionally make those waters murky for pretty much as long as he could.

I think Terrell Austin initially had some of those responsibilities when he first came on.

I always wondered why.

He ascended to defensive coordinator.

I don't know.

Because you don't want anybody to take the blame.

Maybe Tomlin wanted it all to fall on him if something went wrong.

But it speaks to also just the larger idea of Tomlin seemed to like a pretty tight circle, relatively speaking, with his coaching staffs and not have too many cooks in the kitchen, too many voices.

But the NFL is changing.

There's a lot more information out there for these people to process and analyze and

The more people you have to comb through it, the more you can utilize it.

Yeah, it's never the be all end all.

I mean, look at the Vikings GM who just got fired.

He was kind of the poster child for,

Well, I think the people who sort of keep track of those dedicated staffers over the years have found that the Steelers are pretty much at the bottom of the league in terms of quantifying resources devoted to it.

I did a story on this probably three or four years ago and talked to some people in that sports analytics, NFL analytics community who made a few points.