Donnie

Isn't that a bit of an indictment on the coaching staff outside of the head coach?

Yes.

Yeah, and you're telling your whole staff, yeah, we don't want you.

And just also remember the last time the Steelers went through this, they interviewed, what, three of their assistants?

Two of the three, I think, were down to their final four.

You're right about that.

One of them got hired by the Cardinals, who they would then face in the Super Bowl, Ken Wisenhunt.

And Russ Grimm, even according to Russ Grimm, he was going to be the head coach until the midnight hour.

Here comes Mike Tomlin.

Yeah, I mean, they treated a coach stepping down like it was a funeral, like it was a family member passing away.

Fellas, it's the NFL.

Coaches are on the move constantly.

The fact that this guy got to do it with the same team for almost two decades is something you should...

be honored by not man i can't believe they're they're they're taking this away and well he took it away from himself didn't he yeah that's the other thing the guy stepped down himself it's not like he got fired

That didn't happen.

I think you're correct that they felt like the city, the media, the fans, everybody turned against it.

Well, what do you think is going to happen when you don't win a playoff game for a decade?

The thing is, the crux of it is, if they didn't like how he was being treated, they had all of the power to do something about it.

Yeah.

Us saying mean things about their performance...