Mike Tomlin has stepped down as the Pittsburgh Steelers head coach. He announced his decision to his team Tuesday afternoon, ending a 19-year run in which he never had a losing season. The 53-year old Tomlin tied Chuck Noll with 193 regular-season victories following the Steelers win over the Baltimore Ravens on January 4th. That mark is tied for the ninth-most wins in NFL history. Tomlin is tied with Bill Belichick and is second only to former Dallas head coach Tom Landry, who had 21 consecutive seasons with a .500 record or better.
Tomlin won a Super Bowl, two conference championships and seven division titles with the Steelers, but his teams went 8-12 in postseason play. The Steelers last postseason win was an 18-16 win over Kansas City in 2016. The following week, the Steelers fell 36-17 to New England in the AFC Championship Game. His teams have been outscored 131-58 in their last three wild-card losses.
There have now been four coaches who have stepped away or been fired in the Pittsburgh sports landscape in the last year, with the Pirates and Penguins firing coaches. The Pittsburgh Riverhounds also made a coaching change in the last season, but went on to win the United Soccer League championship.
The AFC North landscape also has a significantly changing view–with only Zac Taylor remaining the head coach in Cincinnati. Baltimore and Cleveland fired their head coaches following the regular season.
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