After another first round playoffs exit and now, nine years without a playoff win, calls for the Pittsburgh Steelers to dismiss Mike Tomlin, are once again, getting louder.
But, according to one Steelers insider, the 18-year leader of the team isn’t going anywhere.
The Post-Gazette’s Gerry Dulac says Art Rooney II and the organization have no intention to move on from Tomlin.
Tomlin signed a three-year extension before the 2024 season. That goes through 2027.
According to reports, Tomlin makes around $15 million a year. As he put earlier this season, he is “well compensated.”
The one thing that Tomlin has always been able to hang his hat on is no losing seasons. That streak continued this year, even with a four-game losing streak into the playoffs.
But, Saturday’s loss was another blowout loss in the first-round of the playoffs.
Since 2016, the Steelers have lost in the playoffs, badly, to the Jacksonville Jaguars, Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills and now, the Baltimore Ravens.
Overall, Tomlin is 8-11 in the postseason. Five of those wins came in his first four seasons.
The organization will say changes are coming, but with a team that continues to perform just well enough in the regular season to make the postseason, nowhere near good enough to make a playoff run, it looks the like middling will continue.