Mark Kaboly on Mike Tomlin leaving Steelers, future of the franchise
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What recent news has emerged about Mike Tomlin's future with the Steelers?
The most incredible phenomenon in sports history simply continues. The Arizona Cardinals have requested permission to interview Steelers offensive coordinator Arthur Smith. So that's two now.
Tennessee is interested.
I'm just speechless on this every year. I'm just speechless. What do they see in Arthur Smith? Please tell me, Bob.
I don't know. I mean, there were some good games for him, but largely more of the same. I mean, the fact that he went to a head coaching position in Atlanta in three straight 7-10 seasons, comes here, and he's just been average at best. I don't look at that as saying, well, he's what we need as a head coach.
I'm just blown away by this.
But this whole league, isn't it about just recycling guys? A lot of guys have been and will continue to be recycled.
What are the implications of the Arizona Cardinals interviewing Arthur Smith?
All the candidates out there who are so enticing and interesting and nothing against Arthur seems like a really good guy. And he's been a decent coordinator. He's an average coordinator. He rode Derrick Henry's coattails to a job in Atlanta where he failed miserably. And now he's designing running plays for Johnnie Smith. What are we doing? What are the Arizona Cardinals thinking? Why would you waste resources? on an interview with Arthur Smith. I guess that's why they're the Cardinals. I just don't understand.
I don't understand either. I mean, I understand guys who have a role that a lot of people look at and say, well, he's a coordinator. We can deal with him. He has a good philosophy, run football first, whatever. But as a head coach, he doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who would attain what I think you said at the beginning of this program with the next head coach here, some CEO type who's very good at understanding things, communicates, motivates. He doesn't strike me as that kind of a guy.
Bob, where did Limits go? Oh, there he is. He's there. Limits, what did Josina Anderson say about Tomlin?
Yeah, so I'm going to pull up the full thing that she said, but basically regarding Mike Tomlin that there was – Excuse me, Bob.
I just had two pieces of pizza in like 10 seconds. What was that, a hiccup or a burp? I apologize.
How has Mike Tomlin's coaching style changed over the years?
God bless you.
But basically what Josina Anderson was indicating, she said, as a league source indicated to me over a week ago, and she'll tweet it now, John Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin are at the very top of the Dolphins' wish list at the moment now, after Tomlin experienced some burnout. That Tomlin... As she tweeted in November, there was a longtime coach that was contemplating a change of scenery, and it was Tomlin, as she's indicated recently. She says the fact of the matters are, league sources heard that Tomlin was contemplating leaving Pittsburgh even before the season started, adding there's been a belief that Tomlin did not feel appreciated with contingents around the city believing he should be fired.
Quote, I would say this has been building gradually for the last three years, the source opined to Josina Anderson.
You know, he can't have been surprised at that development. I had to laugh, and I wrote about this. Aaron Rodgers getting on his soapbox the other day. Oh, it wasn't like this when I came into the league. And I pointed out all the successful coaches who were in the league when he got in who were then fired. And I just saw a Sports Illustrated cover from 1988 today, Bob. with Chuck Knoll and Tom Landry on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and the headline was, Under Fire. Have two legendary coaches lost their touch. This is the way it's always been. When you don't win the biggest games anymore for a long time, you're under fire. Mike Tomlin not only hasn't won the biggest games for a long time, He's been blown out in the majority of them for almost a decade.
Almost the amount of time that Jimmy Johnson, John Madden, Vince Lombardi, George Allen, and the like had in their entire careers were that long. He's been blown out of virtually every playoff game.
And I think what Rodgers is probably referring to without... acknowledging what he was referring to is that it just there are too many ways now back then there weren't ways there were no social media nobody you heard it but you didn't hear it up close and personal in your face with dms and everything else so now you're hearing it that way that's what's changed nothing has changed with the process i think people are always under fire always you know coaches are hired to be fired essentially they are uh it doesn't matter who you are when it occurs
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What recent news has emerged about Mike Tomlin's future with the Steelers?
0:00–0:52
2
What are the implications of the Arizona Cardinals interviewing Arthur Smith?
0:52–2:17
3
How has Mike Tomlin's coaching style changed over the years?
2:17–6:58
4
What did Josina Anderson report about Tomlin's feelings towards his position?
6:58–17:01
5
What factors contributed to Mike Tomlin's decision to step down?
17:01–28:17
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