I can assure you this was a resignfired situation.
The Steelers don't fire coaches. This also allows for compensation to the team if any of these teams (like the Giants) want Tomlin to coach next season.
Effectively a mutual parting of ways
The situation has slowly come to this point over the last 5 years.
There is no way Steelers Nation was going to allow yet another year of Tomlin - it had boiled into a toxic situation.
Look, thank you for your service. You won a Super Bowl. You always kept us relevant. But there are a lot of weaknesses under the Tomlin regime and it was time for a change.
He will likely coach again if he wants to. Plenty of terrible teams need a stabilising player-friendly coach to come in and right the ship a bit - Tomlin will get his guys to play hard every game. He's perfect to take a team like the Jets, Giants, etc, etc to some modicum of respectability.
But he ain't getting a good team over the top
He has charisma and the TV money being thrown around is insane. Good chance he retires.The group chat is very excited about Tomlin sitting this year out and then taking over for the sure to be sacked Todd Bowles in Tampa
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