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Steelers extend Mike Tomlin....

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The Pittsburgh Steelers announced they have extended coach Mike Tomlin's contract through the 2016 season.

Tomlin, 40, was entering the final year of his contract, although the team had an option for 2013. Financial terms of the three-year extension weren't released, but Tomlin was the sixth-highest paid NFL coach for this season, according to Forbes magazine.


"I am excited that I will continue to be the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers for years to come," Tomlin said in a statement. "I am grateful to the Steelers organization for the opportunity I have been given over the past five years to work and live in this great city, and I am excited to continue to work to bring another championship to the Steelers and the city of Pittsburgh."

Tomlin, who is entering his sixth season as the Steelers coach, became the youngest coach in NFL history to win a Super Bowl, when he led the Steelers to a 27-23 win over the Arizona Cardinals in February 2009. He has also reached the playoffs four times in his first five seasons, including two trips to the Super Bowl.

"We are pleased to announce that Mike Tomlin will remain with the Steelers for at least five more years," Steelers president Art Rooney II said. "Mike is one of the top head coaches in the National Football League and we are thrilled he will continue to lead our team as we pursue another Super Bowl title."

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8195726/pittsburgh-steelers-extend-mike-tomlin-contract-2016

 
Steeler coaches live long lives.

A 1-1 record in 2 SB appearances in his 5 year tenure doesn't hurt.
 
Good For Him..

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The Steelers are one of those few franchises that do their coaches right. Glad to see their ways not change with Tomlin.​
 
The leadership in the Steelers' locker room has changed with Hines Ward and James Farrior gone.


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What hasn't changed -- and now won't change for a while -- is the man running the team: Mike Tomlin.

The Steelers made that point very clear when they extended Tomlin's contract through the 2016 season. Some will say this falls in line with the Steelers maintaining continuity. But the Steelers didn't give an extension to Tomlin. He earned this.

Tomlin, 40, has taken the Steelers to the playoffs in four of his first five seasons. He's led them to the Super Bowl twice. He's tied with the Ravens' John Harbaugh for the winningest active coach.

The most impressive stat is this: Tomlin's .682 winning percentage in his first five seasons is better than his predecessors, Chuck Noll (.540) and Bill Cowher (.640), over the same span of their careers. What else do you want from a coach?

While last season didn't result in a championship, it might have been one of Tomlin's best coaching jobs. The Steelers didn't have a healthy Ben Roethlisberger for most of the year. They didn't have their two best pass-rushers, James Harrison and LaMarr Woodley, on the field for most of the second half of the season. Still, Tomlin found a way to guide Pittsburgh to the playoffs.

This extension sets the right tone heading into training camp. Tomlin was heading into the final year of his contract (the team had an option in 2013), so this deal eliminates any type of distraction. It also sends a clear message that the organization is still behind Tomlin, especially after an offseason when some thought ownership forced Todd Haley in as offensive coordinator.

When a player goes down with an injury, one of Tomlin's favorite lines is: "The standard is the standard." That standard in the Tomlin era has been excellence.

“I am excited that I will continue to be the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers for years to come,” Tomlin said in a statement. “I am grateful to the Steelers organization for the opportunity I have been given over the past five years to work and live in this great city, and I am excited to continue to work to bring another championship to the Steelers and the city of Pittsburgh.”
 
Even as a Cowboys fan I can admit the Steelers are ran right. From the way the treat thier coaches and players to the way the draft.
 
D-TOWN REP said:
Man Coughlins job is in jeopardy damn near every season.
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But unlike ur owner Coughlin has stayed put..the jeopardy comes from the NY media..how many coaches Dallas had in the past five season???


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BLACKLOOP said:
But unlike ur owner Coughlin has stayed put..the jeopardy comes from the NY media..how many coaches Dallas had in the past five season???


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It's not about the Cowboys. I already know we don't run our team as well as the Steelers do but you came in talking about the Giants and your coach is constantly having to worry about his job despite being one of the best in the league.
 
D-TOWN REP said:
It's not about the Cowboys. I already know we don't run our team as well as the Steelers do but you came in talking about the Giants and your coach is constantly having to worry about his job despite being one of the best in the league.
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Again fam show me any quote coming from the Giants front office saying his job is in Jeopardy...we've all heard the reports over the past few season from ESPN sny wfan but I'm yet to hear the owners say his job is in jeopardy...


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Yeah maybe it's just the media and some of the fans who contstantly have dude on the hot seat but you always hear about it.
 
militantmidget said:
If he wins another championship, this statement will be 100% correct. 2 more championships and they might name the city tomlinburgh.
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You are wrong. They never named the Knollville, what makes you think they will name it after Mike? The heritage of football in Western PA is so great that they do not need to hand their coat on the legacy of one man, as a certain place in Texas wants to...Remember that this is the city the produce, Joe Montana, Jeff Hostetler, Dan Marino, Mike Ditka, Tony Dorsett, Curtis Martin etc etc...There is no shortage of football heroes in Pittsburgh history. The legacy of Joe Paterno was largely built on Western PA talent...
 
D-TOWN REP said:
Yeah maybe it's just the media and some of the fans who contstantly have dude on the hot seat but you always hear about it.
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Don't compare us to you. We are different and better. Having lived in both Pittsburgh and Dallas, I know that there is an ocean of difference between the reverence Pittsburghers hold for Steelers, and what Metroplexans claim to have for the Cowboys. YOU DTOWN do not understand passion for a team until you have lived in a city like Pittsburgh where the team almost defines the city. See in Dallas I can get in my car, close my eyes, and in no time at all I will be in place where they do not give a fuck about the Cowboys. In Pittsburgh, you have the same 2.5 million people who have derived from the area, whose parents came to the place 250-300 years ago, and you cannot tell them that there is any other place in the world than Pittsburgh. The black people in Dallas come from Louisiana, Nacogdoches, Palestine etc etc, and only a small percentage can claim to be native Dallasites, if the expression even has meaning....Dallas is hodge-podge city, started in the late 1880s, that barely has identity or beauty, that is in a fight to define itself...How can there be true loyalty to such a place. In the time I have been here, the City has grown be almost 50% Mexican...And you want to know why the love of the Cowboys is so superficial..

The benefits of Dallas are more to a foreigner like me than to a person who was born here like you. Because of the intinerant nature of many of the residents, there really is not a defined "Dallas-kind". People come and go, and this constant flux pretty much makes this place the property of everyone and no-one, rather simultaneously. In Pittsburgh there is characteristic Pittsburgh type; when people who are isolated from everyone and everywhere by distance and mountains, and fuck each other long enough, they begin to share genes, and therefore similar characteristics. For that reason the black people of Pittsburgh are a slight shed of a certain odd red colour, which not less than a few of them attributed to their Indian heritage; the white people are also peculiaror in their own ways; they live in little ethnic Hamlets like Polish Hill, Or Oakland where Italians like Marino and Montana came from, there is also huge German contigent, which produced the Kauers (there is no such name as Cohwer), Heinzes etc etc...Therefore, if you are a foreigner in Pittsburg, you feel it and you know it.
 
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what is wrong with you; but anyway, if 200 years ago, you dropped such a person by parachute into an isolated city like Pittsburgh, I wonder what her genes would have done to the population of the people who live there today...
 
D-TOWN REP said:
Yeah maybe it's just the media and some of the fans who contstantly have dude on the hot seat but you always hear about it.
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They really do not have him on the hot seat, and they love him. I was on the phone talking to an old cac woman when Mike was first hired and she told me: "we have this little coach who will not let us lose". The quality of Mike Tomlin is his superior intellect, and his operational philosophy, which is far beyond his years. It is the single biggest reason why he gets so much out of players who are picked in the middle of the draft...He is a man who can convince you that you can jump from a 5 story building and you will not get hurt....As you know, he made everyone buy into his moto that "The standard is the standard"
 
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Nzinga said:
They really do not have him on the hot seat, and they love him. I was on the phone talking to an old cac woman when Mike was first hired and she told me: "we have this little coach who will not let us lose". The quality of Mike Tomlin is his superior intellect, and his operational philosophy, which is far beyond his years. It is the single biggest reason why gets so much out of players who are picked in the middle of the draft...He is man who can convince you that you can jump from a 5 story building and you will not get hurt....As you know, he made everyone buy into his moto that "The standard is the standard"
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Superb words to describe Tomlin's pulse and influence on the Steelers.

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