Dominique Foxworth

It kind of felt like Tomlin's like, all right,

I'm going to make this last try.

And I know no one's reported that there's anything other than a mutual parting of ways.

And Rooney suggests that they were surprised by this.

But that seems crazy to me.

They kind of had to know that was coming, right?

Like, if you're Mike Tomlin, you coached there for 19 years.

You don't just show up and say, I'm out.

This conversation had to be had at some point.

They kept it under wraps.

Why would they not tell the truth about that?

Why would the Roonies lie about being surprised?

Or why do you question that part of it?

They don't want to be seen as pushing him out?

No, I'm not even...

even sure that they pushed him out.

He could have said at the beginning of the year, this is my last run, or they could have said that you have to go if we don't have any success at the end of the year.

I don't think that, I think it's likely that he decided that he was on his way out.

I just find it hard to believe that days after

a 19-year career at that organization and a loss in the playoffs, he's just like, guess what?