Mike Tomlin reportedly agreed to a three-year contract extension with the Pittsburgh Steelers yesterday. The extension, first reported by Ed Bouchette of the Post-Gazette, would keep the 38-year-old head coach in Pittsburgh through the 2014 season.
The Steelers typically wait to extend the contract of their head coach until he has just one or two years remaining on his deal. That’s the situation Tomlin was in this offseason — he had one year and an option year left.
Since taking over for Bill Cowher prior to the 2007 season, Tomlin has led the Steelers to a 35-18 (playoffs included) record, and his Pittsburgh teams have never finished with a losing record. They’ve won two division titles (2007 and 2008), and thanks to their 27-23 win against the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII, Tomlin is one of just five active coaches in the NFL (joining Mike Shanahan, Tom Coughlin, Sean Payton and Bill Belichick) to have won a Super Bowl.
This past season was the worst of Tomlin’s brief tenure, as the Steelers raced out of the gate to a 6-2 start, before having a midseason meltdown that included losses to Oakland, Kansas City and Cleveland — three of the worst teams in the league — as part of a five-game losing streak that all but ended their playoff hopes. The Steelers managed to win their final three games to finish with a 9-7 record, but ultimately fell short of the postseason due to losing a tiebreaker with Baltimore and the Jets.
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