Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin gives surprising answer when asked about fans calling for his job

The Pittsburgh Steelers mislaid to the Buffalo Bills 26-7 connected Sunday, and a restless Steelers assemblage was letting the location squad perceive it. 

Fans booed and adjacent called for caput manager Mike Tomlin's job, but the 53-year-old seasoned caput manager had a astonishing reply erstwhile asked astir his position connected the crowd’s frustrations and the calls for his firing.

"In general, I hold with them, from this perspective: Football is our game, we're successful a sport-entertainment business," Tomlin said Tuesday during a property conference. "And so, if you basal for the Steelers, entertaining them is winning. And truthful erstwhile you're not winning, it's not entertaining."

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Pittsburgh Steelers caput manager Mike Tomlin warms up for a crippled against the Buffalo Bills astatine Acrisure Stadium successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, connected Nov. 30, 2025. (Barry Reeger/Imagn Images)

"If you've been successful this business, you recognize that, and truthful I respect it. I stock frustrations, I recognize what makes this happening go, and winning is what makes this happening go."

The Steelers and Baltimore Ravens are some atop the AFC North astatine 6-6, but neither has looked similar a first-place team. The Steelers person mislaid 5 of their past 7 games arsenic their once-seemingly large pb successful the part has vanished.

The Steelers had a accidental to tally distant with the part aft a 4-1 start. The Ravens were 1-5 and the Cincinnati Bengals were struggling to find their footing aft losing Joe Burrow, but present the Steelers' way to the playoffs looks murkier than ever. 

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Pittsburgh Steelers caput manager Mike Tomlin shouts successful the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Cleveland Browns successful Pittsburgh, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo)

They did instrumentality a 7-3 pb into halftime implicit the Bills, but things rapidly unraveled successful the 2nd half. On the archetypal play from scrimmage, Bills borderline rusher Joey Bosa crushed an unsuspecting Aaron Rodgers to unit a fumble, which was recovered for a touchdown. 

The Bills ne'er looked back, and the Steelers' discourtesy ne'er got thing going. 

With the Steelers' caller struggles, the fans' strength successful their jeers has lone grown, and Tomlin agreed with the fans. 

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Tomlin is the NFL’s longest-tenured caput coach, arsenic helium has held the presumption since 2007. In 304 games, Tomlin has a 189-113-2 record. 

The Steelers volition look to springiness their fans thing to cheer astir erstwhile they instrumentality connected the Ravens successful a pivotal matchup connected Sunday astatine 1 p.m. ET.

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