Report: Steelers Plan to Extend Mike Tomlin

PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin has come under fire in recent weeks, with his team limping to the finish of the regular season and the first losing season of the Tomlin era looking more and more likely.

But despite the Steelers' struggles this season and their lack of playoff success in recent years, ownership has no intentions of making a change at head coach. In fact, they plan on keeping Tomlin around long-term.

"A lot of noise on the outside. Inside, it's business as usual," Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio said on the NBC pregame show leading up to kickoff of Steelers-Bengals. "They have no desire to make a change at coach. They have no reason to believe Tomlin wants to go. They actually would like to extend his contract, which runs through 2024. They'd like to get it done before next season begins. He's already involved in roster planning from this year and the year after."

If the Steelers lose two more games, it would clinch Tomlin's first losing season as a head coach. He's finished .500 three times and won 10 or more games in nine of his 17 years at the helm.

Tomlin delivered the Steelers their sixth Super Bowl title in just his second season as the head man in 2008. He ranks first in franchise history in wins and third in playoff wins all-time.

But the 2023 season, which arrived with tons of optimism from the preseason, has been an abject disaster despite the Steelers entering Week 15 with a 7-7 record and still with an outside shot of making the playoff field.

As the Steelers appear bound for an eighth straight season without a playoff win, poor offensive play and increasingly concerning penalty issues have led to ugly losses to bad teams on the field. Off-the-field issues have emerged with star receiver George Pickens and former players are questioning if the "Steelers tradition" even exists anymore. It has all combined to make Tomlin's seat warm, but evidently not warm enough for the front office to move on.

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