Mike Tomlin is now the longest-tenured head coach after the New England Patriots and Bill Belichick parted ways following the 2023 season, but CBS Sports’ Cody Benjamin thinks there’s some similarity between Tomlin right now and Belichick at the end of his career. Both are great coaches, but Belichick struggled to have success toward the end of his career. Benjamin believes the same thing is happening with Tomlin given that Pittsburgh hasn’t won a playoff game since 2016.
While he ranked Tomlin in Tier A and the sixth-best head coach in football, he wrote that Tomlin’s ability to manage a locker room might be “masking” the lack of playoff success.