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Mike Tomlin All-Time Playoff Record Ahead of Steelers' Wild-Card Game

The Steelers' coach is looking to find more postseason success.
Mike Tomlin is hoping for more Steelers' success in the playoffs.
Mike Tomlin is hoping for more Steelers' success in the playoffs. | Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images

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Stop us if you've heard this one before. Mike Tomlin has shepherded a flawed Steelers team into the playoffs, maximizing their talent to finish above .500, only to face a tall task when it comes to advancing deep into the postseason.

Much has been made of the coach's incredible record of 19 straight non-losing seasons. Much of the luster is off the accomplishment as evidenced by how easily Tomlin was placed on the hot seat before the Steelers played excellent ball down the stretch. That's because there's been precious little playoff success built on the backs of all those seasons.

Mike Tomlin All-Time Playoff Record

Mike Tomlin is 8-11 in the playoffs during his tenure coaching the Steelers. Most of those wins came early in his career and his inability to replicate those deep runs has been an ongoing problem.

Mike Tomlin Playoff Results By Year

Season

Record

2007

0-1, lost in wild-card round

2008

3-0, won Super Bowl XLIII

2010

2-1, lost in Super Bowl XLV

2011

0-1, lost in wild-card round

2014

0-1, lost in wild-card round

2015

1-1, lost in divisional round

2016

2-1, lost in AFC championship game

2017

0-1, lost in divisional round

2020

0-1, lost in wild-card round

2021

0-1, lost in wild-card round

2023

0-1, lost in wild-card round

2024

0-1, lost in wild-card round

Pittsburgh hosts the Texans on Monday night to close out what has been a particularly wild wild-card weekend. The Steelers are three-point underdogs as there remains some skepticism about Aaron Rodgers's ability to elevate his team against such a staunch defense.

Tomlin would love to win his first playoff game in a decade and break a five-game postseason losing streak. But even then it feels like speculation about his future in Pittsburgh will continue. Put together a few victories, though, and suddenly two decades straight of playoff contention—and some recent success—doesn't look so bad.


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Kyle Koster
KYLE KOSTER

Kyle Koster is an assistant managing editor at Sports Illustrated covering the intersection of sports and media. He was formerly the editor in chief of The Big Lead, where he worked from 2011 to '24. Koster also did turns at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he created the Sports Pros(e) blog, and at Woven Digital.

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