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PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin has informed the team that he is stepping down as head coach after 19 season with the team, according to a report by ESPN.
Tomlin has engineered 19 consecutive winning seasons as head coach of the Steelers, but also failed to transform that into postseason success later in his career. The team’s 30-6 loss to the Houston Texans on Monday night was the club’s seventh consecutive postseason loss under Tomlin and the team did not win a playoff game in his final nine seasons.
“It’s the here and now, and certainly it’s difficult,” Tomlin said about his emotions following the loss. “But that’s what we sign up for. That’s the life we live.”
Asked about his future on Monday night, he said he was “not a big-picture mentality as I sit here tonight.”
Tomlin will finish his tenure with a 193-114-2 overall record. In his final regular-season game, an AFC North-clinching victory over the Baltimore Ravens last week, Tomlin tied Chuck Noll for first place in team history with 193 victories doing so in 33 fewer games.
Tomlin’s legacy includes a win over the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII, the franchise’s sixth, which came in his second season in 2008. He also made it to another Super Bowl in 2010, and another AFC Championship game in 2016.
The Steelers will now be on the market for just their fourth head coach since 1969, with Tomlin following Noll and Bill Cowher as three legendary, Hall of Fame-bound head coaches.
This article originally appeared on Steelers Now: BREAKING: Mike Tomlin Resigns as Steelers Head Coach
