Mike Tomlin stepped down as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers in January following the team’s 30-6 loss to the Houston Texans in the wild card round, marking the ninth consecutive season without a playoff win. And while it has been three months since Tomlin resigned, the ripples of the longest tenured head coach in major American sports not being in Pittsburgh anymore will be felt for a while.
In an appearance on Good Morning Football, Steelers running back Jaylen Warren was asked about Tomlin stepping down, to which he said his former head coach was never the problem.
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“I never thought he was the problem or whatever, but it sucks,” Warren said. “I wouldn’t say [I was] traumatized, but it hurt. Because he was the one who took me in as an undrafted [player]. He gave me a shot, and that’s who I was playing under for my first four years. To hear him resign, it sucked. But he had to do what he had to do.”
The Steelers have begun their offseason program under new head coach Mike McCarthy, which started on April 7. They will hold a voluntary mini-camp next week from April 20-22 and OTAs begin May 18.
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