The Buffalo Bills\u2019 sudden head coaching vacancy has sparked plenty of speculation, but one popular name can likely be crossed off the list: Mike Tomlin.<\/p>\n
Despite early buzz linking the longtime Steelers coach to Buffalo following Sean McDermott\u2019s departure, multiple NFL insiders have poured cold water on the idea. According to Jay Glazer, Tomlin has no interest in returning to the sideline at all.<\/p>\n
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\u201cNo, that\u2019s not happening. Mike T\u2019s done. He\u2019s done. He\u2019s been done,\u201d Glazer said Tuesday on Wake Up Barstool.<\/p>\n
That sentiment was echoed by former Buccaneers defensive back Ronde Barber, a close friend of Tomlin\u2019s, who revealed the coach privately indicated last year that the 2024 season would be his last.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me, \u2018I think this is my last year,\u2019\u201d Barber said.<\/a> \u201cI think he wants to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n Even before the retirement rumors intensified, insiders questioned whether a Tomlin-to-Buffalo scenario ever made sense. Speaking on The Rich Eisen Show, Tom Pelissero laid out several major obstacles. First, the Rooney family\u2019s willingness to trade Tomlin would be far from guaranteed. Then there\u2019s Buffalo\u2019s philosophical direction.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cDo the Bills want to go into the defensive-minded, 50-something-year-old coach bucket for a guy who\u2026 has not had as much success over the last nine years as Sean McDermott has?\u201d Pelissero asked.<\/p>\n And even if those hurdles were somehow cleared, Pelissero noted the biggest question of all:<\/p>\n \u201cThe third part of it is whether Tomlin is willing to listen.\u201d The answer, increasingly, appears to be no.<\/p>\n Steelers president Art Rooney II confirmed last week that Tomlin intends to spend time with his family and that coaching next season \u201cdoesn\u2019t seem to be on his radar.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, McDermott leaves behind a complicated legacy in Buffalo. While widely respected for building a consistent contender, reports have surfaced portraying a tightly controlled media environment inside the Bills\u2019 facility. Longtime beat reporter Alex Brasky compared covering the team to \u201ccovering the Kremlin,\u201d citing extreme restrictions, even over harmless photos.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n For now, the Bills\u2019 coaching search continues. And if insiders are to be believed, Mike Tomlin won\u2019t be part of it. His chapter on the NFL sidelines appears closed.<\/p>\n The post Is Mike Tomlin Joining the Buffalo Bills? Insider Provides Major Update<\/a> appeared first on The SportsRush<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills\u2019 sudden head coaching vacancy has sparked plenty of speculation, but one popular name can likely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2048],"tags":[117,215,211,214,53,2086,7,28004,1255,75167,6,13115,57,7514,3026,3257],"class_list":{"0":"post-693571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-baltimore-ravens","9":"tag-bills","10":"tag-buccaneers","11":"tag-buffalo","12":"tag-buffalo-bills","13":"tag-buffalobills","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-jay-glazer","16":"tag-mike-tomlin","17":"tag-mitch-stringer-imagn","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nfl-insiders","20":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","21":"tag-ronde-barber","22":"tag-sean-mcdermott","23":"tag-tom-pelissero"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115932829283789883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693571","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=693571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}