With Tomlin Gone, What Do The Steelers Do Now?
Boomer & Gio
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You would think maybe somebody could resign like at 6.30 in the morning, please? |
| 0:03.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:03.8 | That would help so we can actually react in real time as opposed to hearing everybody already give their reactions. We did get the LaFleur trying to stay news. Yes. It wasn't like an official. Hopefully that's the case and hopefully he is going to stay. You know, just to be really totally clear, he was not fired. He stepped down. So that means there is time left |
| 0:22.8 | on his contract, which means that the Pittsburgh Steelers still do own his rights. And within the NFL, |
| 0:28.4 | if he wants to go back and coach, there has to be compensation, not financial compensation. It's |
| 0:33.6 | usually some sort of draft choices or something kind of like Sean Payton and the Denver Broncos. |
| 0:40.4 | So the way that situation unfolded for Denver. |
| 0:42.9 | So again, he was not fired. |
| 0:45.1 | The Roonies were not going to fire him. |
| 0:46.7 | I think he probably got sick and tired and heard the fans, heard the booze, |
| 0:51.9 | and probably heard the criticism over the last couple of years, and is probably exhausted by it. He is a human being after all. Yeah, I mean, and when you're standing there, and it's another playoff loss, and you're hearing these fans that have cheered you for so many years saying, Fire Tomlin, and it's 30 to 6, and things have gotten out of control, and you're thinking, all right, I've got a 42-year-old quarterback |
| 1:13.0 | and I don't know what the hell is going to happen next year at that position. |
| 1:16.5 | Yeah, it was time. |
| 1:17.7 | I mean, sometimes those big decisions make themselves. |
| 1:20.7 | And for Mike Tomlin, it made itself with that loss to the Houston, Texas. |
| 1:25.6 | So the amazing thing about what happened in Baltimore and Pittsburgh is the fact that where |
| 1:30.7 | there was smoke, there was fire, that both of these coaches were being talked about prior |
| 1:35.9 | to their last game of the season that was going to determine who was going into the playoffs, |
| 1:40.1 | that the loser was probably going to lose his job. |
| 1:43.4 | And it turned out that both guys lose their job. |
| 1:47.1 | And also there were reports that Mike Tomlin was thinking about possibly going into TV. |
| 1:51.8 | And I'm sure he would be a target for any of the networks that would want to have a personality of his, you know, of his reputation and his background and his resume. They would love to hire a guy like Mike Tomlin. The question is, is where do you put him? Do you put them in a pregame show, which I think would be a waste? Or do you put them on a game? And if you put them on a game, who are you going to pair them with? And, you know, everybody thinks doing games are easy. |
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