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Mike Tomlin probably won’t be on an NFL sideline next season. Former NFL receiver Nate Burleson would be just fine with the now-former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach sitting beside him instead.
“Shout out to Mike Tomlin, absolute legend,” Burleson told TMZ Sports. “If you are taking time off, come on over to CBS. I’ve got a seat for you on the ‘NFL Today.’ If not, he can go right in to coach, but it has to be the right situation. He had a lot of older superstars. Guys that are legends, some of them even Hall of Famers, with the Pittsburgh Steelers. I would love for Mike Tomlin to go somewhere with a young crop of talent and see what he does with a fresh team.”
If Tomlin were to join “NFL Today,” the CBS pregame show, he’d work alongside fellow former Steelers head coach Bill Cowher. Matt Ryan and Burleson served as other analysts next to host James Brown this season. Burleson sees Tomlin being a natural in front of the cameras.
“Mike Tomlin got the energy,” Burleson said. “Looks like Omar Epps, and he has the ‘Tomlinisms.’ … Tomlin would be great on TV. Yeah, he’s got the energy, got the swagger, he looks good, articulate and all of that. Plus, he has the resume.”
ESPN’s Michael Wilbon said last week that he believes Tomlin could change the way people digest football on television.
“Mike Tomlin can reset television as a form of entertainment, football as a form of entertainment on television in a way that no one has since John Madden,” Wilbon said. “And that may be new ways we don’t know about, it may be one of the existing ways with an existing network or platform. I don’t know, I’m not a television executive. But Mike Tomlin, who you have loved to hear talk and talk to for 20 years, you know Mike Tomlin would be great at that.”
This article originally appeared on Steelers Now: TV Analyst Urges Mike Tomlin to Join His Show: ‘I’ve Got a Seat For You’
