The Bechtold Breakdown - Mike Tomlin back in Pittsburgh, the case for Miami (Ohio)
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You can follow the show on Twitter. You can watch the show there now at 93.7 The Fan. That's brought to you by South Hills Kia in Peters Township. Visit them at southhillskia.net. Just follow at 93.7 The Fan. Donnie Football in for Pomp and Joe on this Friday, the 13th. Pomp never... a Friday guy. Joe is with family back up in Buffalo this weekend. It will be a solo Andrew Filippone show this afternoon. Our buddy Malzi is taking the Friday and celebrating his birthday weekend in style. I will be switching spots with, well, not really switching spots with Austin. Austin will get to go home. I will be behind the glass for Pony starting in under 90 minutes from now. right now it is just after 12 30 on a friday and it is time for a bechtold breakdown austin thank you donnie today's bechtold breakdown for march 13th 2026 begins with what mike tomlin had to say yesterday at the steelers celebration their collaboration and connection with ireland and mike tomlin was honored at this gala for the steelers and this is what he had to say about his time in pittsburgh
Good evening. You know, it's often said, you know, we're not here for a long time. We're here for a good time. Like you have to choose. And, you know, I think our experience here in Pittsburgh and with the Grace Field organization exemplifies that. And we're here for a long and really good time.
It's been an honor to serve the greatest organization in sport. It's been an honor to be a part of this great community, to call it home, for our kids to call it home. We're in somewhat of a nomadic business, and so we don't take that for granted. that our kids get an opportunity to call pittsburgh home it's been an honor to serve the community in which we live it's values that we hold and it will continue we appreciate the recognition but as my wife said we certainly don't do it for that we've been extremely blessed man we just like to share those blessings we thank you So I should have asked Ray about that because I know Ray was at the dinner because it seemed like it was going to be an opportunity for the media to ask Tomlin a couple of questions.
I don't know if he had agreed to have a Q&A of sorts, but my thinking was that whole time was that he wouldn't want to do that. He left here pretty silently. It was nice that he was at this gala last night, but it didn't feel like it was going to be the time and place that he wanted to do a press conference tonight. So I wasn't surprised when the post started to come out about him not talking to the media or doing any sort of Q&A session. I also noticed, because I saw the video of him talking to, he looks a whole lot more stress-free. Yeah, he does. So, like, from person to person, it's nice. I mean, like, man, it looks like there's a whole lot off his shoulders. which is nice to see. Yeah, it was the Ireland Funds Gala.
Ray tweeted last night, Mike Tomlin was scheduled to speak with reporters before tonight's Ireland Funds Gala. He showed up for the event, but he declined to do the interview. About 20 reporters came to interview him. So he was scheduled to talk to the reporters, and he didn't talk to them. Okay. Which I think is interesting. But yeah, good for Tomlin to be honored and recognized at this gala. Michael Keaton was as well, which I thought was cool. Batman. So Batman and Mike Tomlin and his wife being honored at this event at the... Steelers-Ireland funds gala. All right, Donnie, next up. Adam Schefter pointing out that since Monday, NFL teams have spent a record $5.83 billion in contracts. That's $2.59 billion guaranteed.
It's up from last year's $4.88 billion, so they're up almost a billion dollars, and $2.19 billion in guaranteed money. My question to you, Donnie, is... Is the number just going to continue to go up?
What did Mike Tomlin say at the Steelers Ireland Fund gala?
Is there ever going to be a cap on this thing? And I know there's a salary cap, but what I'm saying is, is the money ever going to stop growing? I feel like because the cap over the last, I think, seven years, six years, has gone up $100 million. When are we going to reach a point where we start to see that go down?
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