Mike Tomlin Steps Down, Takes Break for 2026: What’s Next?

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00:00Mike Tomlin decides to step down from the Pittsburgh Steelers and he is not going to be

00:05coaching football this season take a year off and then he still kind of steal his rights to Mike Tomlin

00:11so a year from now teams like the New York Jets teams like you know name your favorite team that's

00:16got a lousy head coach or quarterback situation are going to make a trade with the Steelers to

00:21get the services of Mike Tomlin the same way Sean Payton went to the Denver Broncos but what an end

00:26of an era an end of an era the only coach to coach two decades and not have a single losing season

00:33a great head coach only has the one Super Bowl but that's more Super Bowls than I got in my lifetime

00:38so I'm not gonna make fun of it but Mike Tomlin is done Jim uh Johnny Harbaugh is done and oh by the

00:45way Kevin Stefanski is done and isn't it interesting all three guys come from the same division and all

00:52three guys are now regarded as the top three candidates I guess put Tom on the side because

00:57he's not gonna be a head coach this year for head coaching jobs in the NFL all out of the AFC North

01:05the only guy that survives the AFC North is Zach Taylor the guy that shouldn't have survived it

01:09considering he's never done jack squat with the Cincinnati Bengals on the floor huh no no you got it

01:14AFC not NFC you got it you got it you got it you got it before the show yeah now here's the reality

01:22Mike Tomlin is now an afterthought until next year yeah Mike Tomlin kind of disappears into the

01:27wilderness gets to enjoy his family and uh kind of recharge the uh the battery and the engines

01:33but what's funny to me is that a lot of people think Mike Tomlin would make a great analyst so

01:39there's two kinds of analysts in football there's the studio guy yeah right usually like five or six

01:44dudes at the desk they're typically old white guys we started to bring some uh youth into that

01:49uh into that mix right now and then there's the game analyst so it's funny because I've never met

01:55Mike Tomlin I've seen the same stuff you've seen you know post-game press conferences I think he's got

02:00a great personality does he's got a certain way with words that I like right but I'm not sure which

02:05he'd be better at and it ain't it ain't easy to be a game analyst as easy as people think it might be

02:10easy so which job would you give him um I think oh sorry yeah there's a third job as well there's

02:18game analysts yeah like the Greg Olsen's Tom Brady of the world right then there's the right Tony Romo

02:25there's the studio analyst pre-game post-game you know that's like uh Terry Bradshaw

02:31Howie Long yeah you know those guys and then I guess there's the Fox ESPN kind of like gab fest

02:40talking shows like get up and you know like first things first yeah you know the different networks

02:44those types of shows yeah what do you think he'd be best at well I keep him away from those types of

02:49shows because they manufacture hot takes every day yes so I would keep him away from that I chose not

02:54to but many do I'm saying that's what in general those shows do I would keep him away from that

02:58this is the goat prove me I'm wrong right I would want to put Tom in a spot where he's highlighted

03:04so I would like if he wants to the booth for a game so game analyst yeah the tough part about that

03:11is though would be where just because right now well if he's a Fox guy he's the third team and I

03:17guess because you have Greg Olsen at two Tom Brady at one right if he's CBS you've got Roma one

03:22and you've got JJ Watt who's and I and Lion Eagle and in both cases I think the number two guy is

03:28better at games than the number one guy at this point I like Watt more than Romo at this point

03:32and I like Olsen more than Brady at this point about that Rome was taking a beating because of the game

03:37last week when he was kind of muttering under his breath and talking to himself and he has not

03:41delivered on what he did the first couple years when he was predicting plays he knew every play

03:46right yeah he knew every play um I still think Tony Romo at his best okay is him and Greg Olsen

03:54are the best current analysts at their best okay I think Tom Brady's gotten better I think uh he's

04:00worthy of the spot I think Troy Aikman's good to me Aikman is the gold standard okay that's fine

04:06I wouldn't argue that but I think those like the current Mount Rushmore that being said I've got the

04:10job for my Tom okay and I feel like I think uh I think most people are gonna agree with me on this one

04:15yeah and I have actually given it five minutes of thought okay which is a lot for me to be able

04:20to concentrate on one thing for five minutes you know me yes that's a lot of concentration yeah

04:26that's like ginkgo biloba pills and that's like you know no sound five minutes of dead-on

04:32concentration yeah what I've got the answer uh-huh Mike Tomlin could save us from an insufferable race

04:38spader on tv I would fire Ryan Clark and replace him with Mike Tomlin see that's a cold shot if you

04:48make that replacement Ryan Clark can't claim racism he can't say you replace me with a young white guy

04:55or a pretty blonde girl he'd have to eat it because you're replacing him with a black guy right and

05:03here's my thing on Ryan Clark uh-huh I used to be the biggest fan of Ryan Clark's I even went on

05:08Twitter you could find my own tweet Ryan Clark is the next superstar in sports media and he thanked

05:14me for saying it so then I reached out to him once uh you're with mutual friends or producers uh in

05:20common yeah and I reached out to him because I thought it'd be nice for he and I to you know get to

05:24know each other like I've done that many times you know we're in the same industry like we're all

05:28competing with each other but I respect talent right like I'm not one of those guys that says

05:33everybody but me sucks okay a lot of people in our business do that oh yeah oh I don't watch anyone

05:37else on TV I don't listen anyone else on radio everybody else sucks I'm the only guy who can do

05:41this I thought Ryan Clark was a rising star and then unfortunately he made a decision and maybe

05:47that's good for his family and himself where he became a race guy unfortunately a lot of things

05:52that he a lot of his takes are about race and I can't stand that black or white so he got to the

05:58point where I find him insufferable now and I love the pivot I think the pivot had a chance to be

06:02one of the great podcasts out there and again it all became soapbox race crap right so now I'm going

06:09to replace him with Mike Tomlin America is happy Mike Tomlin's employed uh he's happy and we can move

06:16on with our lives and enjoy good sports content

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