sad news for pittsburgh steelers: i wish never to return

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Mike Tomlin venturing absent from Steelers can be a best-case situation

Is there a chance Mike Tomlin will coach his last diversion with the Steelers on Sunday in Buffalo, expecting the intensely favored Bills win their playoff amusement?

I didn’t think that was conceivable until a few of noticeable NFL insiders talked around Tomlin’s future this week.

“People in Pittsburgh need him terminated — they’re not terminating Mike Tomlin,” Adam Schefter said on ESPN. “Here’s the thing that curiously:
He’s got a year cleared out on his contract. And there are a few individuals around the alliance who accept that Mike Tomlin might choose in the long run to require a few time off like Sean Payton did. Perhaps take a year off. … Mike Tomlin gets to manage what happens here, not the Pittsburgh Steelers. They’re not terminating him. He’s remaining on, but he’s remaining on in case he needs to. But in case he decides that he’d like to walk, well, that’s a distinctive subject.”

Jay Glazer, who can be closer to Tomlin than anyone within the media, did not shoot down Schefter’s report.

“Mike Tomlin, a handful weeks prior, individuals were inquiring for him to be gone. Are you joking me people?” Glazer said on Fox. “He’s never had a losing season. So, Mike Tomlin, it’ll be his choice if he goes back to the Steelers or not. It’ll be his choice.”

Curiously, in fact.

I concur with Schefter and Glazer that Tomlin won’t be let go, much to the chagrin of numerous within the Steelers’ fan base. Craftsmanship Rooney II has never indeed implied at any disappointment with Tomlin’s work. I’m guessing he considers Tomlin did a colossal work this season, getting the group to the playoffs with a 10-7 record in spite of having to utilize three quarterbacks and lost Cam Heyward and Minkah Fitzpatrick for enormous chunks of the season. I’ll be shocked in case he doesn’t offer Tomlin a one-year contract expansion, possibly indeed two a long time.

But the theory around Tomlin choosing to move on from the Steelers? That seems reasonable. I won’t shout and shout in case Tomlin gets an expansion — I still think he’s a truly great coach — but I certainly wouldn’t intellect in the event that the two sides part. It’s simple to think an neighborly divorce would be advantageous for both.

A modern challenge with a modern group would bring out the leading in Tomlin. In case the Steelers lose in Buffalo as 9.5-point underdogs, they will fall flat to win a postseason amusement for the seventh successive season. They might not win another for very a whereas since they have no establishment quarterback on their program.

A modern authority voice would advantage the Steelers. Their marriage with Tomlin has kept going 17 a long time, an endlessness within the NFL. Corridor of Notoriety coach Charge Walsh once said no coach ought to remain longer than 10 a long time with one group, that the coach’s message gets tired and stale.

Schefter proposed some of potential landing spots for Tomlin — the Washington Commanders and the Los Angeles Chargers.

“He’s from Washington [D.C.]. His spouse cherishes Los Angeles,” Schefter said. “Maybe one of [those groups] needs to heave a call into the Steelers to see on the off chance that they may wind up doing something with them.”

The thought of exchanging Tomlin makes sense for the Steelers — they seem get something valuable in return for permitting him out of his contract — but it appears or maybe illogical, at slightest to me.

It appears much more likely that Tomlin will take a year off and after that have his choice of NFL occupations as a pined for free specialist some time recently the 2025 season.

The systems would race each other to enlist Tomlin as a broadcaster for huge cash for the 2024 season.

“I cruel, he’s got a language all of his claim that everyone can understand,” long-time “Sunday Night Football” official executive Fred Gaudelli told media columnist Richard Deitsch in June 2021. “He’s got a truly expressive personality. You’d need him within the studio so you may see him more, but I think he’d be similarly great on a amusement. On the off chance that you said to me you’ll be able take one fellow out of the association right now, it’s not even a hard call. It’s Mike Tomlin.”

Tomlin has said numerous times that he could be a football coach which he has no intrigued in tv. But individuals can alter, right? I never thought Charge Cowher would take off coaching for great when he resigned as Steelers coach after the 2006 with one year cleared out on his contract. But he went to CBS and never left.

I may see Tomlin behind a microphone for the 2024 season before making a terrific return to the NFL in 2025. The more I think almost it, the more I just like the thought.

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