Hour 1: Should Steelers Move on From Tomlin?

First Take

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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First Take begins with the free falling Steelers. Should they move on from long time head coach Mike Tomlin? (0:00) Who had the worse Week 13 Loss: Rams or Eagles? (14:00) Then, we debate Lane Kiffin's tumultuous exit from Ole Miss. (25:30) Finally, should Shedeur start for the rest of the season? (42:00) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome to First Take. Shea Cornett here with you. Stephen A is right there. We got Cam Newton in the house as well as Dan Orlowski on a very good post- Thanksgiving Monday. Bears in first place in the NFC. First thing after mouth. All right. Well, what did you think I was going to do here? There we go. There we go. Yeah, but let's go to the AFC first. We'll talk about that all later on. The AFC yesterday a little bit perplexing, I think is the word I'll use. Bill's beat the Steelers 26 to 7 in Pittsburgh. And what was a very disappointing outing for the Steelers defense and Aaron Rogers. Buffalo rush for 249 yards.
1:12.4	Aaron Rogers struggled, wearing a cast on that broken left wrist, just didn't look right.
1:17.2	And the Steelers have now dropped five of seven since starting the season four and one.
1:21.2	Steelers fans were not happy chanting fire Tomlin during the loss.
1:25.9	And so here is Coach Tomlin's reaction post game.
1:30.2	What goes through your mind when the crowd, there's a crowd chaining the training to fire you in your home stadium?
1:36.9	Man, I share their frustration tonight, man. We didn't do enough. And that's just the reality of it.
1:42.7	The solutions to turn this thing around exist in your building?
1:45.8	Certainly.
1:46.8	What can see the confidence that they do?
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