Colin Cowherd: “Travis Kelce the rock star is calling all of us ‘idiots’. It drives Travis Kelce crazy when us media guys talk about maybe Pittsburgh moving on from their head coach, Mike Tomlin. Two things can be true: Andy Reid is a great coach but it was time for him to leave in Philadelphia. They won a Super Bowl years later after he left. Tom Landry is a legend... It was time for him to go. He won two Super Bowls, he left, and then they won three after. Bill Belichick has six Super Bowls and he’s about to get run from New England. Phil Jackson won six titles with the Bulls, and his owner and GM said ‘THIS IS YOUR FINAL YEAR!’... He left and won five more with the Lakers. Your team has plateaued. What you bring to the table they no longer need, and your services would be great elsewhere. Nobody thinks Mike Tomlin is a lousy coach, but the NFL has pivoted to offense, and the Steelers have had a bottom ten offense five straight years. However, what Mike Tomlin brings to the table, the ability to create toughness, high emotion, develop players, and a winning culture is needed ALL over this league. Chargers, Raiders, Washington, look at all the job openings. You can argue that Mike Tomlin fits with ALL of them. But you can also argue – what he brings to the table, Pittsburgh has coming out of their eyes and don’t need it anymore. They need somebody to take that toughness – an offensive coach – and elevate the offense, because they’ve become a BAD offense. Change is not a death sentence or is it an indictment of your resume. Mike Tomlin will have arguments to get into the Hall of Fame. He is a tough alpha, builds a winning culture, but I can argue Ben Johnson to the Steelers would be perfect, and Tomlin to the Raiders, Chargers, or Washington would be perfect. Great players get traded. Great coaches move on. Tomlin hasn’t failed but what he provides, the Steelers have more than enough of. What they need he’s not necessarily in the new NFL a perfect fit for. It’s a quarterback/coach league. It’s an offensive coach/quarterback league in most instances. Where a defensive coach still works is if you have a great quarterback. We’ve got one in Houston, Buffalo, Baltimore -- and do you know where they have one? LA with the Chargers. There is an argument he [Tomlin] is the perfect coach. What they lack is toughness and consistency. Isn’t that EXACTLY what the Chargers need? Everybody is talking Harbaugh and Belichick, but I can argue that defensive coaches still work in this league if the quarterback is great. Buffalo, Houston, and the Chargers.” (Full Segment About)
Watch Colin Cowherd of FS1’s The Herd make the argument that it’s time for the Pittsburgh Steelers to move off long-time head coach Mike Tomlin, saying that ‘change’ can sometimes be the best option for a career that has plateaued and experienced an obvious sense of burnout.
Tomlin has notched 15-consectuive non-losing seasons in Pittsburgh, but the Steelers have gone just 3-7 in the postseason since their Super Bowl appearance in 2011, and they haven’t won a playoff game since 2016.
Check out the segment above as Colin explains why he thinks Tomlin would be the perfect option for a team like the Raiders, Commanders, or Chargers, saying Tomlin’s strengths of toughness and leadership is needed on those three franchises, and not so much the Steelers anymore, comparing Tomlin's situation to Andy Reid's at the end of his time in Philadelphia.
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