{"id":89331,"date":"2026-01-17T10:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89331\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:31:12","slug":"steelers-legend-james-harrison-explains-why-he-doesnt-think-mike-tomlin-is-a-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89331\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers legend James Harrison explains why he doesn\u2019t think Mike Tomlin is a Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> legendary outside linebacker James Harrison<\/a> does not believe former head coach Mike Tomlin<\/a> is a Hall of Famer, even after 19 years at the helm of the franchise. <\/p>\n

Harrison has long ripped Tomlin, and the two had a falling out around 2017. The former Steelers pass rusher says Tomlin lied to him, and that is what led to their rocky relationship over the past decade.<\/p>\n

Outside of that, however, Harrison does not see Tomlin\u2019s accolades as Hall of Fame worthy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t give him a Hall of Fame coach because he hasn\u2019t made disciples,\u201d Harrison said on Deebo and Joe<\/a>. \u201cYou\u2019re telling me you\u2019re a Hall of Fame coach, but no one has followed you? That can\u2019t be the thing. He\u2019s the only coach that has coached this long and does not have a tree. Guys are emotionally attached to him, not performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tomlin won a Super Bowl with the Steelers, went to two of them, won over 200 career games in the NFL, has the highest win percentage in franchise history, and is tied for most wins in the franchise\u2019s history. <\/p>\n

That alone will give him enough ammo to make it to Canton and earn a gold jacket as a coach. But Harrison still thinks he should come up short.<\/p>\n

\u201cA great coach, the measurement of greatness, it\u2019s not based on personal experiences and relationships you\u2019ve had with them. It is purely what you did as a coach. Did you get championships? Did you build disciples? Wins and losses is great, but those wins and losses have to add up to championships. A Hall of Fame coach should be making history for having the longest losing streak in playoff history,\u201d Harrison said.<\/p>\n

The argument for Tomlin, despite the shortcomings that Harrison outlines, is that other coaches with lesser accomplishments have earned their way into the Hall of Fame. With that in mind, it seems hard to not envision Tomlin earning that induction some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers legendary outside linebacker James Harrison does not believe former head coach Mike Tomlin is a Hall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8177,1418,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-89331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-american-football","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89331","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=89331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}