This isn't going well.

I don't have to tell anybody who just press play on this particular podcast.

And it might be as bad as it's been for Mike Tomlin in particular. Good morning to you. Good. Tuesday morning.

I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Steelers presented by

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If I wanted to, I could make every single episode of this program about this subject.

In fact, I could make every headline, title, description, identical

to the dot matrices, and it would still be the biggest winner that this daily show could ever

produce when it comes to numbers. I don't do that. I hope

you'll agree. I don't go chasing those figures, though I'm grateful for everybody who does come

regardless of the topic at hand. This topic is timely, it's relevant, and it's real. I'm going to try to put Tomlin's

status into a bit of a different frame than others might. See, he doesn't like, in fact, he goes

out of his way to avoid carrying one season over to the next or going backward or anything.

Everything is about Sunday's game.

He has one media session all year long where he'll even entertain questions that have to do with anything that might represent some sort of season to season trend.

Well, I don't have to check with him for the contents of this show, to say the least.

In his past 17 games, Tomlin is 6 and 11.

Those were 17 real NFL games.

That's a real thing.

That's a real trend, regardless of where he elects to draw the line.

Tomlin's current defense.

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