12PM - Jay Glazer shares his conversation with Tomlin, Joe fires back on the draft; Joe reflects on seeing youth players he coached now grown up
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This puts you in a better mood. It's sunny outside. The sun is bouncing off the snow. To put a little gleam in your eye. I've been in a good mood, Bob. I'm very happy today. I wasn't referring to you. Limits you were referring to? We're not allowed to say anything about limits anymore. We have to call him Austin all the time now as well. Mr. Bechtold.
We'll make him older. All right. Because of, what was that guy's name? Billy Joe. Billy Joe?
No, his name was Joe.
Or Billy Joe. You called him Bill.
Where was he calling from? Somewhere in the Pittsburgh area.
Joe's somewhere in the Pittsburgh area. He needs to know that limits condition out as well as he takes it, Bob. He can. That's all I have to say about that. He's got thick skin. He can understand. Jay Glazer stopped by, I think, Jim Rome's show yesterday. And he's a guy who said that he's known for a while that Tomlin was stepping down. A couple of years, apparently. Well, Glazer tells Rome, I talked to Mike Tuesday. He's happy being a dad and wants to get himself healthy. What does that mean, Bob? He said, now let's see what happens in a year, two, three. Right now, his mindset is, I'm done. I hadn't heard anything about Tomlin not being healthy. In my first reaction, I hope everything's all right. Have you heard anything to that effect?
I took that to mean he just wanted to get away because the stress of the job, even though you don't necessarily see it visibly, other than everybody ages pretty quickly as a coach.
How do you not follow that up? Not that I would ever question Jim Rome, but don't you have to say, what do you mean healthy?
Is there something going on health-wise? It's a logical question to ask, but I don't think that's the case. I think he meant it in a way that, you know, just get away from this. Less stress, improve your health that way. That's how I took it. Now, that may not be the right interpretation, but I don't think he's in any way suffering from some sort of disease, if that's what you take away from that.
What did Jay Glazer reveal about Mike Tomlin's health?
No, I didn't take away anything other than a guy that he knows very well said he wants to get himself healthy. Maybe he means get himself right. I don't know what that means. That's the problem. Rome did follow up By asking, and this is according to Benzie over at the Trib, if this decision was about family or something else. Okay, so fairly, Rome did follow up that question by saying, is this family or something else? Glazer responded, family. He's done it. He wants to be a dad. And Bob, you have a little bit of news about Tomlin at some point coming back to Pittsburgh for an event.
Yes, it's the Ireland Fund, which is given out by the Steelers as they support Tomlin. the Ireland fund that they have and put in place several years ago. And so every year they have two honorees and this year, two categories, I should say. And this year, Michael Keaton is going to get one of the awards and both Tomlins. I think Mike and Kia are both going to be back in town. It's in March. That'll be interesting. Where is he now? I don't know. That's anyone's guess. All right. When he receded into oblivion, that's pretty much what's happened.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know what's happening right now or where he is. Ben comes out and says that Mike Tomlin was too easy on younger players. Did you see that story, Bob? I didn't see that, no. Was that in his podcast? I'm not sure if that was an interview somewhere or...
He may be at the Super Bowl, and they have Radio Row out there, so it could have been there maybe. Hold on a second. I have to cough. You have to talk. Yes. So that would be interesting, and I wonder, I'd like to hear more of a longer answer on that.
What are the implications of Tomlin's potential departure?
Instead of too soft, what does that mean? Just let him get away with things? Just not being disciplined enough? I don't know what that means exactly.
Here it is. Roethlisberger on his podcast Tuesday night. I would say that Limits is supposed to monitor that, but I don't want to insult him in any way as to avoid offending Joe from somewhere in Pittsburgh. I think, you know, sometimes Tomlin got a little too lenient with the young guys, Ben said.
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