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Mike Tomlin Addresses Tough Questions After Playoff Loss
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1/16/2025
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Uh, first, let's hear Mike, uh, talk about, uh, he was asked by, and I will say this,
00:04
the reporters, uh, for the first time, and some people were mentioning this, they really
00:08
were kind of giving Mike some tough ones, they're pushing back.
00:12
There really wasn't a lot of softball stuff with Mike after another playoff loss, uh,
00:16
yesterday in the, in the year.
00:17
Here's one where he was asked if the Steelers have been stuck in the same place, uh, every
00:23
single year.
00:24
Here's what Mike had to say.
00:25
Um, you know, I don't know that I've looked at it from that perspective.
00:29
I'm certainly disappointed that I'm not working to prepare to play this week, um, and I've
00:34
certainly felt that in recent years, um, but stuck is kind of a helpless feeling and I
00:40
don't know that I feel helpless.
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Well, what gives you optimism, what is that optimism that, you know, you guys can emerge
00:45
from this sort of place you've been in?
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You know, I don't know that I'm ready to be overly optimistic or sell optimism to you
00:51
either.
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I'm just acknowledging what transpired and what has to happen and what is beginning to
00:56
happen and acknowledging the, the, the, the complexity and the amount of work that's ahead
01:02
of us.
01:03
Um, certainly feel capable.
01:05
Um, but, but, you know, definitely doesn't feel in the mood, uh, for, for optimism or
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the selling of optimism.
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I don't know that that's appropriate.
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Um, you know, it's disappointing not to be working.
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And so that's where we are fair enough.
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Like, you know, it is what it is like, they're not getting rid of him.
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So you can sit there and a bellyache like me for days on end.
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I'm frustrated as much as anyone is in Pittsburgh.
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I think it's a lot like, you know, Buffalo, uh, when they lose all the time, the frustration
01:39
boils over into the community because that's all they live for.
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You understand?
01:43
Like people in Pittsburgh live for the Steelers and more so believe me more so than the penguins.
01:50
Uh, it's a Steeler town and always has been.
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And when they lose it's full on onset of depression.
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I mean, literally even little kids, everyone is depressed because Pittsburgh is depressing
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to begin with.
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It is a steel town.
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It is a bad snow belt town like Buffalo is to Western New York.
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And when all it does is crappy weather, snow and misery, even in the summer, it's hot as
02:19
hell and humid and miserable.
02:22
It's never nice.
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It's like a sunny day in Pittsburgh is like a rarity.
02:27
So when all you ever have is depression and angst and losing and, and just that vibe,
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it carries through to people and they literally, they don't function.
02:37
They don't work well.
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They don't, they're not productive.
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Less babies are born the whole deal.
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Nobody does anything.
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No one's in a good mood.
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No one's nice.
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Pittsburgh's a nice town.
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People are cool to one another.
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There's not a bunch of, you know, a holes in Pittsburgh.
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But when they lose, there are.
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Here's Mike.
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He was asked if he's still the right man for the job in Pittsburgh.
03:00
I think a lot of fans have been questioning coaching at the top, starting with you.
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If you are still the right guy for this job, what's your message to them?
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You know, I have no response to that.
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I understand the nature of what it is that we do, the attention and criticism that comes
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with it.
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As a matter of fact, I, I embrace it to be quite honest with you.
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I've heard it all.
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I enjoy the urgency that comes with what I do and what we do.
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I don't make excuses for failure.
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I own it.
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But I also feel like I'm capable.
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And so as long as I'm afforded an opportunity to do that, I will continue.
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But I certainly understand their frustrations.
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And probably more importantly than that, I, I share it because that's how I'm wired.
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And so, um, I'm not a big time comfort seeker and particularly in, in circumstances such
03:51
as this, I don't view myself as a comfort provider because there's, you know, words
03:56
of hollow to be quite honest with you.
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It's about what we do and less about what we say.
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And so I've learned to say very little, um, when things are going good and I've learned
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to say less when they aren't.
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So I gotta be honest with you, this guy, uh, he really is exactly what you just saw.
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A guy that I really believe he loves his players and he loves people that are in the organization.
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He loves the Roonies.
04:25
He loves Pittsburgh, but he could give a flying F what you think of him as a fan.
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He does not care what fans think of him and never will.
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