Ben Roethlisberger thinks it’s time for Steelers to clean house + Does Mike Tomlin need a fresh start? (12/3 Hour 1)
PFT Live with Mike Florio
Mike Florio
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up today on PFT Live, a Steelers legend weighs in on Mike Tomlin's future in Pittsburgh. Ben Johnson has the Bears on top of the NFC, but there's plenty he'd like to clean up. Plus, a new number one team in the weekly power rankings. PFT Live starts right after this. It's being talked about around here a lot. Maybe it's time. Maybe it's a clean house time. Maybe it is. Maybe it's time. And I like Coach Tomlin. I have a lot of respect to Coach Tomlin. But maybe it's best for him too. Maybe a fresh start for him is what's best. Whether that's in the pros, maybe go be Penn State's hitco. You know what he would do in Penn State? He'd probably go win national championships. Legit. Because he's a great recruiter. |
| 0:46.4 | It's one thing for a couple of morons like us to talk about the morning after. |
| 0:51.4 | The latest embarrassing loss by the Steelers, 26 to 7, to the Buffalo Bills. |
| 0:57.0 | It's another thing for a guy who won a Super Bowl with Mike Tomlin, who played for Mike |
| 1:03.3 | Tomlin, who was the most important player on the team for years, a guy that Mike Tomlin |
| 1:09.0 | stood behind when he went through some |
| 1:11.7 | some ugliness that kind of got forgotten. And you're a jerk if he even mention it, |
| 1:18.9 | but I'm a jerk, so it doesn't really bother me. Ben Rothesberger coming out and saying |
| 1:25.2 | what you and I talked about at length on Monday. |
| 1:28.3 | I wrote something about it last night. |
| 1:31.2 | And, you know, I watched all of Mike Tomlin's press conference yesterday. |
| 1:35.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.2 | What are you thinking? |
| 1:36.7 | And something's just not, something's like, I said this earlier in the year. |
| 1:41.3 | Right. |
| 1:41.7 | He doesn't seem bothered. |
| 1:46.0 | He doesn't seem bothered. He doesn't seem bothered. He doesn't seem bothered. And all we can do is interpret what we see and what we hear, what we witness, what we absorb. |
| 1:54.0 | And I thought about it as I wrote last night, just my take that it could benefit both sides to separate. |
| 2:04.2 | And I've said this about other franchises. I've said it about the Vikings. Is good enough, good |
| 2:08.6 | enough? Is it enough to be competitive? Is it enough to be in the playoff chase? Is it enough |
| 2:14.8 | to have the fans showing up through December, paying for parking, |
| 2:20.3 | buying the overpriced stuff, merch, whatever, keeping the stadium full? And then we don't |
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