The Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers find themselves in the same unfamiliar position: searching for new head coaches after moving on from the two longest-tenured leaders in the NFL. They arrived there by very different routes—Baltimore dismissed John Harbaugh, while Mike Tomlin chose to walk away from a Steelers team eager to keep him.
Dan Patrick: “I don’t think that he was forced out, I think Mike Tomlin realized that maybe he had taken this team as far as he could take them. John Harbaugh didn’t realize that. Ownership told him to realize that he’d taken the team as far as he could take them…I truly believe Mike Tomlin realized that it was time to go.”