{"id":136279,"date":"2025-08-11T06:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/136279\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:36:10","slug":"mike-tomlins-press-conference-wraps-unexpectedly-after-steelers-preseason-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/136279\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tomlin&#8217;s press conference wraps unexpectedly after Steelers&#8217; preseason win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Tomlin may just have experienced the easiest news conference of his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following Pittsburgh\u2019s 31-25 preseason win over the Jaguars on Saturday, the Steelers\u2019 head coach did what he always does after a game: made his way to speak with media members.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36796140\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP_Steelers_Jaguars_Football_61502-f99eb-0.jpg\" alt=\"Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin speaks during a news conference following the team's preseason opener Saturday against the Jaguars in Jacksonville, Fla.\" class=\"wp-image-36796140\"  \/>Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin speaks during a news conference following the team\u2019s preseason opener Saturday against the Jaguars in Jacksonville, Fla. AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really a good evening\u2019s work,\u201d Tomlin said as part of his opening statement. \u201cWe got put in a lot of situations and got a chance to watch people perform in them, a two-minute drive before the half kind of highlighting some of that. I thought we did a nice job of not beating our own butt. We kept pre-snap penalties virtually to a minimum; I think we had one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played a pretty clean game for our first time out. We gave a lot of people a lot of opportunities and this is what this is about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued on for another moment or two before opening up the room to questions.<\/p>\n<p>The problem: There were no questions for the Steelers\u2019 head coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomlin looked around for a second, and a Steelers media relations staffer appeared to ask if anyone in the room had any questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When no one spoke up, Tomlin said \u201cThank you\u201d and exited the room.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the players weren\u2019t the only ones in preseason mode on Saturday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomlin can enjoy the brief postgame media conferences while they last before facing plenty of questions once the regular season begins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers enter this season with former Packers and Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, a future Hall-of-Fame quarterback, as their starting QB for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tomlin may just have experienced the easiest news conference of his career.\u00a0 Following Pittsburgh\u2019s 31-25 preseason win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[17666,1232,1545,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-136279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-mike-tomlin","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115008751985609714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}