{"id":243095,"date":"2026-01-13T23:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243095\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T23:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:04:07","slug":"nfl-mike-tomlin-steps-down-as-pittsburgh-steelers-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243095\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL: Mike Tomlin steps down as Pittsburgh Steelers head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tomlin released a statement of his own, saying his &#8220;respect and love for the Pittsburgh Steelers will never change&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This organisation has been a huge part of my life for many years and it has been an absolute honour to lead this team,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Coaching in Pittsburgh is unlike anywhere else and I will always take great pride in having been a steward of this team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am excited for what the future holds for this organisation and I will forever be grateful for my time coaching in Pittsburgh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tomlin guided the Steelers to their sixth Super Bowl title in 2008 and made the play-offs 13 times during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, their defeat to Houston was the seventh consecutive postseason defeat and fans had voiced their displeasure at his coaching during the season, chanting &#8216;Fire Tomlin&#8217; at games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The departure of Tomlin means the Steelers will be looking for only their fourth head coach since 1969.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also represents the ninth NFL coaching change since the conclusion of the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tomlin released a statement of his own, saying his &#8220;respect and love for the Pittsburgh Steelers will never&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-243095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}