Tomlin Offers Pep Talk
May 13, 2008
No talk of spygate. No prospectus on the coming season. Instead, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin delivered a pep talk for “the game of life” Saturday at St. Vincent College in Unity. Read more
Tomlin: One season into his new job
April 8, 2008
A veteran network television executive, attending another in a long line of annual NFL meetings for him, strolled past a table near the hotel pool, where two young head coaches chatted. Read more
Tomlin Offers Surprising Prediction
April 3, 2008
EBay and the rising Cleveland Browns were among the topics that Steelers coach Mike Tomlin discussed with reporters Tuesday Read more
Tomlin Commencement Speaker
March 6, 2008
Pittsburgh Steelers first-year head coach Mike Tomlin will be the keynote speaker at the 162nd annual commencement of Saint Vincent College Read more
Tomlin Benefits from Experience
February 26, 2008
Almost two months removed from his first season as an NFL head coach, Mike Tomlin looked refreshed. Read more
Tomlin Earns Sexy Honor
January 31, 2008
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin doesn’t seem to care about earning style points on the field — a win is a win, no matter how ugly it may be. Read more
Tomlin’s Take on Topics
January 14, 2008
Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin weighed in on a variety of topics during his season-ending press conference. The following are some of the topics that he addressed.
On quarterback Ben Roethlisberger:
He did a nice job of course. He is a pro-bowler. He set franchise marks in some areas. He’s a merging big time football player. He is very good. He is very professional. Aside from what happened inside the white lines in the stadiums, I like the direction he is going it terms of take the reigns in a leadership position. Is he a developing guy? Absolutely. He is still 25 years old. But I look forward to what lies ahead with him.
Tomlin Finalist for Coach of Year
January 10, 2008
Mike Tomlin is a finalist for the 2007 Motorola NFL Coach of the Year Award. The others up for the award are New England’s Bill Belichick, Jacksonville’s Jack Del Rio, Washington’s Joe Gibbs and Green Bay’s Mike McCarthy, who is a Pittsburgh native.Fans can vote for one of the five on NFL.com until 6 p.m. Jan. 21. The winner will be announced during the week leading up to Super Bowl XLII.
In his first season as a head coach, Tomlin led the Steelers to a 10-6 record during the regular season and the AFC North title.
The Steelers lost to the Jaguars last Saturday, 31-29, in an AFC wild-card game.
Tomlin Ready for First Playoff Game
January 5, 2008
He took over a team that finished .500 a year after winning the Super Bowl and featuring star players set in their ways with a built-in comfort level from the only coach most of them had played for.
Mike Tomlin’s first season with the Steelers has been better than predicted when the team convened for training camp at St. Vincent College in July — a 10-6 record with an AFC wild-card game tonight against Jacksonville at Heinz Field.
“It’s different from Coach (Bill) Cowher. This is Coach Tomlin’s team,” said receiver Hines Ward, a Cowher favorite and the Steelers’ career leader in receiving yards, receptions and touchdown receptions.
Full Story: Tomlin ready to coach first playoff game - [Pittsburgh Tribune Review]
Related: Tomlin a scene Steeler in Pittsburgh - [Chicago Tribune]
Man of Steel
December 7, 2007
Shortly after Mike Tomlin was named coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers in January, he had dinner with star quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
On the menu was how Tomlin, an unknown outsider, was going to win over a team that was expecting offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt or offensive line coach Russ Grimm to be tabbed as Bill Cowher’s successor.
The 35-year-old, first-time head coach chewed on what Roethlisberger had to say, and at spring minicamp he met with each player. He also debuted the “news,” a daily rundown of mistakes by Pittsburgh players that Tomlin goes over in front of the team. Among his first headliners was Roethlisberger.
The message was clear: The new coach in the Steel City didn’t have a heart of stone, but he had an iron will and nobody was going to bend it, not Roethlisberger and not the fans who had embraced Cowher for 15 years and Chuck Noll for 23 seasons before that, and been rewarded with five Super Bowl titles.
“I’ve been blessed to be around some great coaches and I have some great mentors in this business,” said Tomlin, whose big break came in 2001, when Tony Dungy hired him to be the Buccaneers’ defensive backs coach. “Everybody has a different perspective on what it is that we do, but one of the things that reverberated throughout everybody is be yourself and do it your way. That’s what I’ve done.”
Full Story: Tomlin’s style seems a good fit in Pittsburgh - [Boston Globe]
