Mike DeFabo

So that's probably going to knock him all the way off the board for most Steelers fans who were chanting fire Tomlin.

But it is an interesting nugget nonetheless.

I'll give him an A-.

He's one of my leading candidates.

that's what i was hoping for yeah just there we go hey didn't mike tomlin just recently say on the rich eisen show that he was institutionalized so maybe they share that in common they both are big shawshank redemption fans wait what mike tomlin uh rich eisen asked him like oh could you ever do something are you gonna move on and he said like i'm institutionalized remember the line from shawshank redemption where they talked about how they'd been in

You know, in the prison in Shawshank for so long, they didn't know anything other than the prison.

I was like a week and a half before he resigned.

Yeah.

I mean, he's the only one that really knows why he chose to step down.

Um,

think it was a number of factors i i imagine that coaching in a city where they're chanting to fire tom when he realized that it was coming to an end one way or another but i agree with you in the sense that he seemed to me like the ultimate competitor that they were you know backed into a corner and with people chanting fire tom in his face he would want to fight his way out of it rather than looking for an escape hatch

thought he'd have to be carried out of there rather than resigning so i was as shocked or surprised as his players and i mean i first got wind of it on thursday leading up to it diana russini who does it for us tipped me off that she was hearing a lot of buzz to the point she said get your stories ready i asked some people in the organization who i trust and they said you are wasting your time

you are poking around the long, like Tomlin is not going to leave and laughed at me for even suggesting it.

So I think he, I mean, I think he absolutely did leave on his own though.

I'm not putting on a tinfoil hat and saying he was forced out, but it is, I did not expect him to step down.

Well, so I was watching one of the games recently, the playoff game, and they said the Carolina Panthers have one of the biggest turnarounds defensively in NFL history.

They went from historically bad last year to halfway decent this year.

And then I looked at it, and Ejero Levero has been the defensive coordinator for three years.

And so he both was in charge of this really bad defense and also this dramatic turnaround.

Now...