Tomlin has been under fire for his lack of postseason success, losing his last six playoff games and the most recent five have been first-round exits, including Saturday against AFC North rival Baltimore. It was just another in a string of disappointing endings.
After starting the 2024-25 season 10-3, the Pittsburgh Steelers lost five straight games to end the year. The final nail in their coffin was an ugly 28-14 loss to the Baltimore Ravens in the wild-card round of the AFC playoffs.
Watt had 11.5 sacks this season, but over the last 193 snaps of the year, they failed to record a single statistic. He battled thumb and ankle injuries to close the season, but it was a disappointing end for a player the Steelers looked at as their superstar cornerstone.
It was a sequence that perfectly captured the Pittsburgh Steelers’ desultory first-round playoff loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday night, and also the desultory, mediocre reality that has surrounded the Steelers for a decade now.
Tomlin, who has been head coach of the Steelers since 2007, was not keen on discussing a future outside of Pittsburgh during his end-of-season press conference on Tuesday, and was only focused on taking what he can from the 2024 season and improving upon it for 2025.
The Steelers have won 80 regular-season games in the past eight seasons. They haven't won a playoff game in that same stretch, going 0-5. Tomlin said Tuesday his players frequently joke with him about one of his favorite cliches: "Two is a pattern." What about five?
Even after another year without a postseason victory, the Pittsburgh Steelers would be foolish to move on from head coach Mike Tomlin
Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt finished the 2024 season without a sack in his last four games.
PITTSBURGH -- T.J. Watt’s storied NFL career is already good enough to land him in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The individual accomplishments will never be lacking for the Pittsburgh Steelers star outside linebacker. However, what has not followed is Watt’s postseason success.
Teryl Austin’s future with the Steelers is in question as criticisms mount over his handling of a star-studded defense in 2024.
The Pittsburgh Steelers head into the offseason with plenty of questions to answer after another quick playoff exit.