{"id":18235,"date":"2025-01-12T22:47:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T22:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=18235"},"modified":"2025-01-12T22:47:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T22:47:27","slug":"report-pittsburgh-steelers-make-final-decision-on-head-coach-mike-tomlin-following-sixth-straight-playoff-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=18235","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Pittsburgh Steelers Make Final Decision On Head Coach Mike Tomlin Following Sixth-Straight Playoff Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/mike-tomlin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Tomlin<\/a>\u00a0will eventually head to the Hall of Fame as a head coach, but many are questioning him right now after the\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/pittsburgh-steelers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>\u00a0lost yet again in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Dating back to 2016, the Steelers would make it to the NFC championship game and lose to the Patriots. That year would mark their final playoff win for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>The team has now lost six straight postseason games, including Saturday\u2019s loss to the\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/baltimore-ravens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh\u2019s sixth consecutive playoff loss and fifth straight loss to end the season have left a bad taste in everybody\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Despite what many people might think of Mike Tomlin, the franchise is standing behind him.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported on Sunday that the Steelers will not be firing him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud835\udde5\ud835\uddd8\ud835\udde3\ud835\udde2\ud835\udde5\ud835\udde7: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Steelers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Steelers<\/a> won\u2019t be firing head coach Mike Tomlin, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerrydulac?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@gerrydulac<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll be back in 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/43fuxlhVWg\">pic.twitter.com\/43fuxlhVWg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasrifootball\/status\/1878560494526615552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-mike-tomlin-has-never-had-a-losing-season-but-the-playoffs-are-entirely-different\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mike Tomlin Has Never Had A Losing Season, But The Playoffs Are Entirely Different<\/h2>\n<p>Tomlin has had a non-losing season in every year he\u2019s coached the Steelers, but despite all of that regular-season success, it has not translated to postseason success over the last 15 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Tomlin took over the Steelers\u2019 head coaching job in 2007 and won a Super Bowl one year later.<\/p>\n<p>Going to the playoffs every year or much of the time would be great for a much lesser franchise, but in Pittsburgh, it is all about playoff success and Super Bowl wins.<\/p>\n<p>Playoff success hasn\u2019t come quite as easily for Tomlin\u2019s Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Tomlin has coached in a total of 19\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL<\/a>\u00a0playoff games and has an 8-11\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/teams\/pit\/playoffs.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">record.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Mike Tomlin\u00a0will eventually head to the Hall of Fame as a head coach, but many are questioning him right now after the\u00a0Pittsburgh Steelers\u00a0lost yet again in the postseason. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18237,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235\/revisions\/18237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}