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.