{"id":176799,"date":"2026-04-26T20:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176799\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:53:08","slug":"nbc-reportedly-didnt-face-much-competition-for-mike-tomlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176799\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC reportedly didn’t face much competition for Mike Tomlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Tomlin signed with Sandy Montag<\/a> in March, hired one of the most powerful agents in sports media, and waited for the offers to come in. According to Andrew Marchand on The Varsity with John Ourand<\/a>, they mostly didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere really wasn\u2019t a lot of competition for Tomlin,\u201d Marchand said. \u201cThat was the interesting thing. He\u2019s a guy, who, you go back 10 years, you\u2019re putting together a list and you say who\u2019s the future? Mike Tomlin was always at the top of that list from most executives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fox had been considered the favorite<\/a> as recently as January, when Tomlin stepped down after 19 seasons<\/a>, and the network was sitting on an open chair at Fox NFL Sunday following Jimmy Johnson\u2019s retirement after 31 seasons. The fit seemed obvious, but as Marchand laid out, the market that everyone anticipated never materialized.<\/p>\n

\u201cESPN didn\u2019t bid,\u201d he said. \u201cFox, I don\u2019t think, actually, put in a bid at the end there. I don\u2019t know if CBS even met with him. And so, Amazon didn\u2019t have a spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

The streamers that get floated in every one of these conversations \u2014 Netflix, YouTube \u2014 didn\u2019t have the tonnage to make it work either. YouTube\u2019s anticipated NFL package<\/a> figures to be around five games, and as Marchand put it, what are you paying Mike Tomlin for five games?<\/p>\n

NBC was the only network that came into the offseason with both a clear need and the willingness to act on it. Tony Dungy had confirmed he was leaving Football Night in America<\/a> after the Super Bowl. As we previously reported, Rodney Harrison and Jac Collinsworth are unlikely to return<\/a>, taking the entire on-site satellite studio with them, while Matthew Berry is also unlikely to return<\/a> to FNIA. NBC was also planning to move the show on location every week, abandoning the Stamford studio setup it had used for years. What emerged from all of that was a show that needed to be rebuilt around a single voice that could anchor it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he did very well from what I understand in terms of what he got paid,\u201d said The Athletic\u2019s sports media insider of Tomlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tomlin signed with Sandy Montag in March, hired one of the most powerful agents in sports media,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[79035,79036,79037,7405,39218,73,75,74,79038],"class_list":{"0":"post-176799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-andrew-marchand","9":"tag-football-night-in-america","10":"tag-john-ourand","11":"tag-mike-tomlin","12":"tag-nbc-sports","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","15":"tag-pittsburgh-news","16":"tag-the-varsity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}