@NealCoolong Not sure what this means? So he sucked at hiring assistants and that’s a good thing?
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Denny DiPasquale
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The head coach’s job is not to get assistants hired as head coaches. And if he sucked so bad at hiring them, he has one helluva record despite poor assistant staffs. Pick a lane. Can’t have this both ways.
Andrew Fillipponi@ThePoniExpress
All these Harbaugh McVay and Shanahan disciples getting head coach interviews + jobs underlines a point. Mike Tomlin was terrible at hiring assistant coaches. After Big Ben got rid of Haley. And Mike Munchak left. It was over. Second rate hires. By a so called Hall of Fame coach.
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@steelernation No shit. Then why did the great Coach T bring them back?!?!
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Several Steelers players did not want Arthur Smith and Teryl Austin to return for 2026
steelernation.com/2026/01/15/ste…
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@DomDiTommaso You mean all the players who haven’t won a playoff game in 10 years? Oh no what we will we ever do
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Watch what happens with some big-name Steelers after Mike Tomlin's exit. Rodgers gone, Watt may be traded, Cam Heyward might retire, etc. And the Steelers certainly won't attract players like they used to. One of the many dominos to fall with Tomlin out. And you asked for this.
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Denny DiPasquale retweetledi
Wow: James Harrison, who played under Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh for many years, doesn’t believe he should be in the Hall Of Fame due to not having a coaching tree along with his negative postseason record.
“He hasn't made disciples. You're telling me you're a HOF coach but no one has followed you? He's the only coach that has coached this long but doesn't have a coaching tree. When you look at the greats, nobody has a negative postseason record... he's 8-12.”
(via: @deeboandjoe)
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Denny DiPasquale retweetledi
Sean McVay has more playoff wins, and more Super Bowls than Mike Tomlin's entire 19 years in Pittsburgh.
He was hired in 2017.
Tomlin is a good coach, but let's not act like we did anything exceptionally well since 2010.
2011 - lost to Tebow
2012 - missed playoffs
2013 - started 0-4 missed playoffs
2014 - bounced by Baltimore in first round after winning division
2015 - beat a back up QB in Cincinnati by a miracle - blew a lead at Denver
2016 - another blow out by Brady (injuries big factor)
2017 - ass kicked by Jags at home
All of these years with a Hall of Fame QB.
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In 309 career regular-season games, a Mike Tomlin-coached team was eliminated from the playoffs for only one of those games -- the 2012 finale against the Browns.
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Steelers Fans are gonna learn quickly that Tomlin was the one thing keeping them from being last in the division
Ian Rapoport@RapSheet
🚨 🚨 🚨 #Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has informed the team that he plans to step away from coaching, meaning one of the greatest to do it will take a break. Pittsburgh has a coveted opening.
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One of the biggest misconceptions about Mike Tomlin that some can’t seem to understand. Since 2020, Tomlin is 60-40-1
His #1 QBs over that span?
37 and 38 year old Ben Roethlisberger
1st and 2nd year Kenny Pickett
36 year old Russell Wilson
42 year old Aaron Rodgers?
Who else is producing a .600 winning percentage over that time?
What are we doing?
Marcus Mosher@Marcus_Mosher
The truth is that Mike Tomlin hasn’t been a top-8 HC in a long time. Getting you to 10-7 every year and getting the doors blown off every Wild Card round isn’t impressive. If he were on any other franchise besides the Steelers, he would have been fired after 2021.
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Some of you Pittsburgh people are crazy. Soon as a team loses. Fire the coach.
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Pittsburgh fans might just get to find out…the grass isn’t always greener.
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Mike Tomlin went 68-48-1 since 2019 with 5 playoff berths using:
• Ben Roethlisberger in final years
• Mason Rudolph
• Duck Hodges
• Mitch Trubisky
• Kenny Pickett
• Justin Fields
• Russell Wilson
• Aaron Rodgers in final year(s)
Won’t find many HCs who can do that.
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Nobody wants to hear this but the fact they won as many games as they did the past few years with the quarterback play they had is nothing short of a miracle.
Stephen J. Nesbitt@stephenjnesbitt
i can't believe that not acquiring a good qb since 2004 would work out poorly for the steelers here in 2026
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