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Pittsburgh Steelers fans have called for Mike Tomlin's job a number of times during his run as the team's head coach, but after a blowout 30-6 loss to the Houston Texans on Monday night, the call for his firing grew louder than ever before.
The Steelers set an unfortunate NFL record, becoming the first team in NFL history to lose five straight playoff games by double digits. Tomlin knows his team didn't get it done, but refused to address his future as the head coach of the Steelers moving forward.
"When you don't get it done, words are cheap," he said. "It's about what you do or you don't do. And so, I appreciate the question, but people talk too much in our business. You either do or you don't."
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"Mike T. has had more success than damn near anybody in the league for the last 19, 20 years," Rodgers said. "And more than that, though, when you have the right guy and the culture is right, you don't think about making a change, but there's a lot of pressure that comes from the outside and obviously that sways decisions from time to time. But it's not how I would do things and not how the league used to be."
The former Green Bay Packers quarterback also voiced support for Matt LaFleur, who faced criticism similar to Tomlin after squandering an 18-point lead against the Chicago Bears over the weekend.
"When I first got in the league, there wouldn't be conversation about whether those guys were on the hot seat," Rodgers said. "But the way that the league is covered now and the way that there's snap decisions and the validity given to the Twitter experts and all the experts on TV now who make it seem like they know what the hell they're talking about, to me that's an absolute joke.
"And for either those two guys to be on the hot seat is really apropos of where we're at as a society and a league, because obviously Matt's done a lot of great things in Green Bay, and we had a lot of success."
The future in Pittsburgh could look significantly different if the Steelers move on from Tomlin, but Rodgers made it clear that's not the move he'd make.
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