The Pittsburgh Steelers seemingly aren’t firing head coach Mike Tomlin following their 28-14 wild-card playoff loss to the rival Baltimore Ravens, but some noteworthy members of the soccer neighborhood proceed to recommend each he and the Steelers ought to welcome an offseason breakup that will contain Tomlin accepting a commerce to a special staff.
On the newest episode of the “Footbahlin’ with Ben Roethlisberger” podcast, the Steelers legend and former Pittsburgh guard Ramon Foster touched upon the Tomlin rumors that have not quieted down regardless that he strongly hinted that he is not going wherever.
“It’d should be somebody that you just felt tremendous snug with that you just knew might flip it round proper now,” Roethlisberger stated concerning the Steelers probably changing Tomlin this winter, as shared by Troy Montgomery of Steelers Depot. “Since you do not wish to lose the fellows you’ve on protection. The query is, is coach [Tomlin’s] message getting stale? Is it simply going over folks’s heads?”
Whereas Tomlin famously has by no means had a dropping season since he earned the Steelers job in 2007, the truth that the one-time Tremendous Bowl champion head coach hasn’t recorded a playoff win for the reason that 2016 marketing campaign has triggered folks to marvel if the franchise wants a brand new voice. Foster, who serves as a Tennessee Titans sideline radio reporter, talked about that Pittsburgh would want to “have a man in thoughts that you just wished to herald” to maneuver on from Tomlin.
For instance, it is now clear that New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft was assured when he fired head coach Jerod Mayo that Mike Vrabel would take the job. If these working the Steelers have such a substitute for Tomlin in thoughts, they’ve finished a improbable job of protecting it a secret.
“If there was a yr to maneuver on, I believed it was this one,” Foster added whereas mentioning a 10-3 Pittsburgh staff ended the season with five-straight losses.
Some will continue to speculate till Dallas Cowboys proprietor and basic supervisor Jerry Jones hires a brand new head coach that he might make a transfer for Tomlin earlier than the weekend of Tremendous Bowl LIX arrives. Maybe Las Vegas Raiders minority proprietor Tom Brady might reach out to Tomlin after former Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson rejected the Raiders to develop into the following head coach of the Chicago Bears.
Tomlin might be staying put, however it’s however attention-grabbing to notice that each he and the Steelers would have choices in the event that they agreed {that a} parting of the methods can be what’s greatest for everyone concerned.
