The news may come as a bit of a surprise since many players have praised Tomlin\u2019s resume and coaching style for many years. In fact, a lot of free agents have tabbed Tomlin as the main reason they signed with the Steelers.<\/p>\n
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That continued this offseason when quarterback Aaron Rodgers revealed during his introductory press conference that Tomlin was the driving force as to why he decided to sign with Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it starts with Mike Tomlin,\u201d\u00a0Rodgers said<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve been a fan of his for a long time. There\u2019s a few iconic franchises in the NFL. I played for one of them for 18 years. This is another one of those. There\u2019s something special about \u2014 obviously this area, so many great quarterbacks are from Pittsburgh.\u201d<\/p>\n Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin and New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers after a game on Oct. 20, 2024. \u2014 Ed Thompson \/ Steelers Now<\/p>\n However, it seems that narrative may be starting to change, at least according to Kinkhabwala.<\/p>\n Tomlin has been often praised for his NFL record of consecutive non-losing seasons to begin coaching career (18). But the Steelers have now lost six straight playoff games and haven\u2019t won a postseason game since the 2016 season.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n He must change that soon or his seat may finally start to get a little hot.<\/p>\n This article originally appeared on Steelers Now<\/a>: Insider Shares Shocking Report About Steelers HC Mike Tomlin: \u2018Many Players Have Bitten Their Tongues\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Related Headlines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports insider Aditi Kinkhabwala reveals several Pittsburgh Steelers players may have lost their respect for head coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1586,9522,9676,7,1255,255,6,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-182119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-aditi-kinkhabwala","10":"tag-ed-thompson","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-mike-tomlin","13":"tag-new-york-jets","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114797791766569487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Pittsburgh](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/297bce130867ef3f85216aff5214d2aa.jpeg\"\/)
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