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PFT Live with Mike Florio

What will it take for Steelers to move on from Mike Tomlin + Looking at Patriots’ resurgence under Mike Vrabel (12/4 Hour 2)

PFT Live with Mike Florio

ProFootballTalk

Sports

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Hour 2: Mike Florio (@ProFootballTalk) discusses latest news in NFL including a look at what it will take for Steelers to move on from Mike Tomlin with Andrew Fillipponi (@ThePoniExpress), examining Patriots’ resurgence with Tom Curran (@tomecurran), and answering questions from the PFT mailbag.

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0:00.0

Does the fans have a right to be mad?

0:03.0

I'm not calling for anybody's job.

0:06.0

I mean, that's a man that I hold high in high regard with Coach T and how he carries himself and how he takes a lot of criticism.

0:15.0

But he comes in here and he still is a great leader.

0:18.0

So, I mean, I understand the frustration, but calling somebody's job is just something that I'm not up for. So we'll be better because they're used to winning. They're used to, you know, put his Lombardi's in a trophy case. So like I keep saying, we just got to hold up our end of the bark. D.K. Metcalf talking about all the noise surrounding coach Mike Tomlin.

0:38.1

And this is his first rodeo with the Steelers.

0:41.6

So, you know, he's still kind of new to this.

0:44.5

He's got his $35 million per year contract.

0:47.2

And all of a sudden he's on this team that has been a model of stability.

0:50.8

And it feels like it's anything but stable.

0:52.7

We welcome Andrew Philpone of 937, the fan in Pittsburgh, part of the PM team.

0:57.1

I appear there every Wednesday afternoon.

0:59.6

We have wrangled Andrew three times this year for the solo-only editions of PFT Live.

1:06.5

But it really does feel different this time.

1:10.1

I'm accustomed to that segment of the fan base.

1:12.9

Anytime there's two or three losses in a row, fire tomlin, fire tomlin,

1:15.9

they typically quiet down.

1:17.7

Man, it feels different this time, doesn't it?

1:20.6

You know, it doesn't from my perspective, Mike,

1:23.6

because for years, whenever the Steelers would lose a game as you're talking about,

1:29.0

I would go on the air the following day and be inundated with people that would call into our

1:34.6

show or talk to us and say, Mike needs to go.

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