The Pittsburgh Steelers’ four consecutive seasons of reaching the playoffs between 2014 and 2017 was the first stretch of more than two seasons in Mike Tomlin’s tenure as head coach, and the longest for the Steelers since the beginning of Bill Cowher’s career here, when he made it in his first six seasons.
Despite the fact that the team has been more successful than most other teams during the past five years (only four teams in total have reached the postseason in at least four of the past five years), Tomlin has been under fire for nearly every corner, and part of the reason for that is because this would be an offseason in which the team would traditional complete a contract extension with him.