Florio Wonders If Steelers Aren’t Hoping Groups Come Calling About A Mike Tomlin Commerce

Pittsburgh Steelers HC Mike Tomlin solely has himself in charge for what’s coming, together with commerce hypothesis. After strolling off the rostrum within the face of a query about his future a yr in the past, issues gained’t get any simpler following one other one-and-done postseason efficiency with an ostensibly competent quarterback.

This yr, the Mike Tomlin Dialectic goes to future a wholesome dose of “ought to the Steelers commerce him”. Whereas Adam Schefter reported that Tomlin has a no-trade clause in his contract, which may be semantic.

As Mike Florio explains it, all coach contracts successfully have a no-trade clause. A workforce can not merely commerce a coach; it negotiates with one other workforce after which that negotiating workforce has the proper to barter with the coach. However the coach, on this case Tomlin, can refuse a commerce.

Nonetheless, Florio raised the notion that maybe the Steelers need groups to come back calling. Lately, there was a leak via Gerry Dulac reporting they’re “not planning” to maneuver on from Tomlin, by way of commerce or in any other case. As Florio factors out, that’s fairly gentle language for somebody you signed to an extension final yr after 17 years.

“If the report had been that the Steelers undoubtedly is not going to make a training change, it might feel and appear completely different”, Florio argued. “The phrases ‘not planning’ [to trade or release Mike Tomlin] may very well be a delicate invitation to the Jets, Bears, Saints, Jaguars, Raiders, and presumably the Cowboys, whose contract with Mike McCarthy expires in two days”.

Do I believe that is true? No, not within the slightest, fairly frankly, and Florio has a historical past of studying an excessive amount of into particulars. Typically he’s proper to, however typically he’s chasing a wild goose. If the Steelers are “not planning” to maneuver on from Tomlin, they’re not going to. Except it’s Tomlin who initiates the shifting on, in a single kind or vogue.

For these Steelers followers searching for seismic change this offseason, they’re prone to see solely disappointment. Mike Tomlin, at the very least for now, nonetheless seems to have a lifetime appointment so long as he does simply sufficient. He has turn into the grasp of doing simply sufficient recently, maybe too nicely.

Coach trades are, after all, exceedingly uncommon, and dialogue about theoretical ones are extensively disproportionate. In fact, it’s an attention-grabbing factor to theorize about, which is why we do it. The Steelers buying and selling Mike Tomlin would reshape the panorama of the NFL in a big manner.

That doesn’t make it any extra prone to occur. And whereas I can’t fully dismiss the distant chance that the Steelers would hearken to a blockbuster provide for Tomlin, it feels unattainable. Even when, apparently, at the very least one workforce did put out a feeler about it, simply in case.