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Colon: Mike Tomlin is on the Hot Seat
Fox Sports host Craig Carton believes that Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin is on the hot seat.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have not won a playoff game since 2016, and urgency around the organization has continued this offseason as the team looks to exhaust all options to win that game in 2024. But could that even mean that Mike Tomlin might have to put up or shut up this season?
Willie Colon, former Steelers offensive lineman and analyst on FS1 made that exact point on Friday and believes that Tomlin is legitimately on the hot seat if he can not win a playoff game this upcoming season.
“I love Mike Tomlin, but this is, I have to officially say, he’s on the hot seat. And when you talk about his overall record, you talk about in 17 seasons, he has an eight and 10 playoff record, only four seasons with playoff wins and he’s had some bona fide teams even with Ben Roethlisberger. The issue with Mike Tomlin right now is he wins games he’s supposed to win, but loses games he shouldn’t lose,” Colon said on the Craig Carton Show. “I’m saying to myself, well, who are the Pittsburgh Steelers? Are they the bullies, or are they the dweebs right now? If you lost to the Patriots and the Cardinals, you look like the dweebs.”
As stated earlier in the article, the Steelers haven’t won a playoff game in seven years. It’s the longest playoff win drought since pre-1972 for the franchise.
“We’ve had enough of this,” Steelers president Art Rooney II said about no playoff wins in seven years during a season-ending press conference. “It’s time to get some wins; it’s time to take these next steps.”
The 52-year-old is entering his 18th season as the Steelers head coach. He has a career record of 173-100-2 and is tied for 11th in NFL history for most coaching wins. But he needs to find a way to break the streak of playoff futility. Without that, all of the regular season accolades are largely fruitless over the past seven seasons.
If the Steelers’ streak of not winning a playoff game continues and the Wilson/Fields QB plan blows up into flames, Tomlin’s tenure will continue to come into question.
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Haven’t heard a peep about an extension. Tomlin hasn’t won a playoff game since 2016, the same year I’ve been clamoring for his dismissal. You know how I know he hasn’t had much input on the last two draft classes, they didn’t draft a 5’7″ 165 lb. CB or WR in the first 3 rounds with a heart warming backstory.
Craig Carton and Willie Colon, SHUT UP! If you don’t know by now that 25 years is the benchmark for Coach Tomlin as The Pittsburgh Steelers Head Coach (win or lose) then you just need to SHUT UP! When these FOOLS talk about, “hot seat,” they’re talking about their own hot seats — not Mr. Rooney’s or The Steelers’ hot seat because there is no hot seat… Live with it, HATERS… And if you’re, supposedly, a part of Steelers Nation, ride with it or maybe become a fan of the Cleveland Clowns and their two-time NFL Coach of the Year… Read more »
Criticize the man because he deserves it at times — I know I did, big time, last season, more than I ever have… I acknowledge that we all make mistakes and have misjudgments in our lives (e.g., Matt Canada hire) then I move on… Just don’t show and advertise your ignorance, people, by mentioning, “hot seat,” when you should know that there is no hot seat and won’t be within the next 7 years, at least (if ever as The Pittsburgh Steelers’ head coach)… The Steelers front office is all business while simultaneously being all family… Fans, fanatics, journalists and… Read more »
Fanboys who constantly make excuses for everything are not really fans. What you are is closer to a cheerleader clueless.
He should be, but even when people say so they always preface it with statements like, “I love Mike Tomlin but… or Mike Tomlin’s a great coach but…” It’s as if they’re afraid to say what they really think about him without first saying how great he is. Virtually any other coach with his recent record would receive regular and deserved criticism from the talking heads, but not him. This is a very strange dynamic especially coming from the national media and one has to wonder what’s actually behind it.
Overrated coach. Should have been fired years ago. Always out coached in big games. Press conferences are a joke.
Don’t you get it, DUMMIES, Bill Cohwer would still be the head coach of The Pittsburgh Steelers today if he didn’t want to leave and retire (win or lose)… Credit to Late Great Chief and his family for patience and a sense of family… and to HELL for those who don’t and won’t ever get it!
And if you think Coach Cowher would’ve taken The Steelers to the Super Bowl every year without a sub-.500 season, I got some land I want to sell you in Singapore…
He should already be gone. But Fields and Wilson will make that a reality after this year.