{"id":67230,"date":"2025-12-22T03:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67230\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T03:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:05:07","slug":"steelers-win-over-lions-secures-19th-straight-non-losing-season-under-mike-tomlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67230\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers&#8217; win over Lions secures 19th straight non-losing season under Mike Tomlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin added another milestone to his Pro Football Hall of Fame-caliber resume after the Steelers earned a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pittsburgh-steelers-detroit-lions-dec-21-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">29-24 win over the Detroit Lions<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The victory secured a 19th consecutive non-losing season for the Steelers under Tomlin, the longest such streak to begin a head coaching career in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MIKE TOMLIN REFUSES TO LOSE <br \/>(more games than he wins) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UAMnOco2BK\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/UAMnOco2BK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFL on CBS \ud83c\udfc8 (@NFLonCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFLonCBS\/status\/2002907094555800025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh improved to 9-6 on the season, ensuring it will finish at .500 or better for the 19th consecutive year since Tomlin was hired in 2007. The Steelers have not had a losing record during his tenure, finishing no worse than 8-8 each season.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise&#8217;s run of non-losing seasons now stands at 22, dating to 2003, when Pittsburgh finished 6-10.<\/p>\n<p>Tomlin&#8217;s streak also ties him with former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick for the second-longest run of consecutive non-losing seasons at any point in an NFL coaching career. Belichick&#8217;s streak spanned from 2001 to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Only former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry had a longer such run, going 21 seasons without a losing record from 1965 to 1985.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin added another milestone to his Pro Football Hall of Fame-caliber resume after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11866,4849,73,75,74,1833],"class_list":["post-67230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-detroit-lions","tag-national-football-league","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67230","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=67230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}