Is this Tomlin's last year?

I agree Tomlin needs to go but that is only the tip of the iceberg. A lot of his staff needs to follow him.

 

Won't happen. Rooney wants stability especially with Pittsburgh hosting the draft next year. No need to create more drama around it

 

I'd say, today's report by Shefter is no ringing endorsement. If they're committed to Tomlin, there's no decisions to be made regarding a new contract; they'd just sign him to one. Where things get difficult is that if there's no longterm committed to him, hiring coordinators to replace Austin and Smith become more difficult.

 

He is under contract for 26&27. However 2027 is an option year. The team has until March 1st to decide. I am hoping for a complete collapse now. Which hopefully leads to them declining the 27 season. Which makes you wonder if Tomlin is willing to be a lame duck coach next year with a team that will be worse next year. The only reason I see him coming back in 26 as a lame duck coach is the fact he can become the all time winning coach in Steelers history. Which I assume Tomlin thinks makes him a lock for the HOF. Either way this news made my day. I don’t understand how this wasnt talked about more.

 

If they decline the 27 option, then they'll be mutually going their separate ways immediately following this season. Zero way will they have a lame duck coach the year the draft is in town. And the fact the article was put out there to begin with, tell me that this is about to be over.

 

Now you really have me excited

 

My mindset is simple: if there wasn't trouble in paradise, the Steelers would be planning to exercise such option and extension (which is very much possible), but there wouldn't be a story to be told with 5 games to go.

 

I wonder if both sides agreed to this and then leaked it. How is it we went this long without knowing about it. Maybe they just made up the buy out story

 

Easy PR to kill future Fire Tomlin chants when games go south.

 

We don’t have many home games left (2). The week 18 is most likely meaningless. I actually think this won’t do anything to stop the fire Tomlin chants. Only winning can do that and struggling against horrible teams isn’t going to cut it.

 

The sooner MT is out, the sooner this franchise will win a playoff game again. I don't know when it will be, but his leadership is clearly holding this franchise back.

 

Every thread I make automatically gets but into someone else’s thread. With this logic we should only have 3 threads total.

 

NO to the defensive candidates, YES to the offensive:

https://fansided.com/nfl/here-s-who...y-take-the-plunge-01kbtkr5b35w?utm_source=RSS

Here’s who the Steelers should replace Mike Tomlin with if they take the plunge
The Steelers are a historically stable franchise. Who could succeed the longtime head coach in the Steel City?
By
Brendan Howe
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The noise around Mike Tomlin is as loud as it’s ever been. It isn’t certain that the longtime Pittsburgh Steelers head coach and Super Bowl XLIII champion will be back after this season, especially if his team continues its nosedive.

The Steelers have been the most patient team in professional sports with their leaders, having only had three head coaches — Chuck Noll, Bill Cowher and Tomlin — since 1969, the same year as the moon landing. If Pittsburgh finally does move on, Tomlin could be replaced by some high-profile candidates.

Marcus Freeman
Freeman isn’t even a year removed from steering Notre Dame to an appearance in the College Football Playoff national championship game. Before the Fighting Irish learn what’s next on their schedule, the fourth-year head coach has put together a 43-12 record in South Bend, including a 24-4 mark over the past two go-rounds.

However, Freeman’s next NFL job will be his first. The 2024 Bear Bryant Coach of the Year has a defensive background and will be 40 years old next month. While not as young as Tomlin was when he took the headset for the Steelers, Freeman fits a similar mold.

Dan Lanning
Lanning does have Pittsburgh ties. He began his collegiate coaching career as a graduate assistant under Todd Graham with Pitt in 2011.

Since then, Lanning has climbed the ladder to join college football’s elites, taking charge at Oregon. Last season, the Ducks were the only FBS team to go undefeated in the regular season and were boosted to a No. 1 national ranking for the first time since 2012. They won a Big 10 crown in their first season in the once-Midwestern-based conference.

While Lanning was involved in its defense, Georgia had top-2 units in the SEC from 2018-21, including the nation’s third-ranked resistance in 2019 and second-ranked in 2021.

With Nike magnate Phil Knight’s financial backing, Lanning is currently in one of the most advantageous positions in his sport. It would take a historic franchise such as the Steelers to peel him away.

Nate Scheelhaase
It’s hardly ever a bad idea to entrust an offense with a guy who worked under Sean McVay.

Scheelhaase, the Los Angeles Rams’ pass game coordinator, has helped 37-year-old Matthew Stafford look like an MVP candidate. Entering Week 14, the Rams have the fourth-best passing attack (246.6 yards per game) in the NFL.

Stafford’s 32 passing touchdowns currently lead the league. His 111.7 passer rating is the best of his 17-year career.

Scheelhaase’s name will become more widely-known during this head coaching cycle. If general manager Omar Khan and the Steelers are set on taking a quarterback early in the 2026 NFL Draft, they could prop him up early with Scheelhaase at the helm.

Jesse Minter

Minter is familiar with the AFC North. He spent his first four seasons in the NFL (2017-20) working under John Harbaugh with the Baltimore Ravens.

Now the Los Angeles Chargers defensive coordinator under Jim Harbaugh, Minter has proven to be an emerging mind. He followed the head coach to the West Coast after serving as Michigan’s defensive designer from 2022-23. During his first go-round in Ann Arbor, Minter was a finalist for the Broyles Award, which goes to college football’s assistant coach of the year.

As the Wolverines stomped to the College Football Playoff national title in 2023, Minter fielded a defense that was tops in the country in per-game averages of yards allowed (247.0) and opponent first downs (13.3).

With Minter in the fold, the Bolts have the third-best defense in the NFL in terms of yards allowed per game (275.3) entering Week 14.

 

They merge my new thread with old **** 100% of the time. Either it’s a personal reason (they don’t like me) or we should only have 3 threads total. Since the second choice isn’t true there is only one reason left

 

hmmm