The Pittsburgh Steelers don’t fire head coaches as they have not done so since 1968.
Coach Mike Tomlin appears to be on the hot seat after his team lost a second-straight game to a squad that was 2-10 and playing on the road. The Steelers’ comeback effort fell short after they made Bailey Zappe look like Tom Brady in the first half of a surprising 21-18 win for the Patriots.
One former Steelers star voiced his frustrations with the team on Friday, and he called out head coach Mike Tomlin.
“When you aren’t prepared, it has to start at the head coach,” said former Steelers defensive back Ryan Clark on ESPN’s Get Up.
“Is he my favorite head coach in football? Absolutely. Do I believe he goes about his work the same way every day, every week? Absolutely. And what I’m saying is that has to change.”
“Mike Tomlin has to change. What they do offensively has to change, and the effort, the sort of accountability and pressure put on those people in that locker room has to be different.”
Without Pickett behind center, the Steelers’ flickering postseason hopes are hanging by a thread. Pittsburgh scored just 10 points in the first half with backup signal caller Mitchell Trubisky leading the offense. The Steelers mustered just 264 yards of total offense on Thursday Night Football.
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The prognosis on Kenny Pickett is he could sit out an entire month following in-season ankle surgery.
The Steelers fell to 7-6 with the loss. They dropped from the No. 5 spot in the AFC to No. 8.
Expectations weren’t high coming into this year, but sitting at 7-4 with two winnable games at home and losing both is devastating.
