{"id":476225,"date":"2024-01-17T11:51:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T15:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=476225"},"modified":"2024-01-17T11:51:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T15:51:04","slug":"tomlin-tells-pittsburgh-he-will-return-as-manager-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/tomlin-tells-pittsburgh-he-will-return-as-manager-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomlin tells Pittsburgh he will return as manager in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Tomlin shared with Pittsburgh Steelers footballers and managers today that he plans to lead the franchise in 2024, 24 hours after he walked out of a news conference when asked about his future with the team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gmfb?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GMFB<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Steelers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Steelers<\/a> coach Mike Tomlin is set to return, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Falcons?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Falcons<\/a> interviewed Jim Harbaugh, plus the latest on Nick Sirianni and Mike McCarthy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uG3Ec79Wnx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/uG3Ec79Wnx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1747600146961949064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tomlin, who has a season left on his deal, has given no indications of wanting to step away in the past few months as he demands just to coach football. Discussions about a new deal could begin during the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>A day after Pittsburgh\u2019s postseason defeat against the Buffalo Bills, DT Cameron Heyward, the longest-tenured team player, voiced his support for the boss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll just tell this about our head coach; why are we so concerned with somebody who has a season left on his current deal, has been locked in, and has wanted to just play and coach football?&#8221; Heyward claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Tomlin shared with Pittsburgh Steelers footballers and managers today that he plans to lead the franchise in 2024, 24 hours after he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":476226,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324,17148],"news_category":[16703,14084],"gn_keywords":[22566,17873,18446],"acf":{"announce":"Mike told the players that he would return as head coach.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476228,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476225\/revisions\/476228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476225"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=476225"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=476225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}