Once unbeatable pillars of their teams, head coaches John Harbaugh of the Baltimore Ravens and Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers are uncomfortably perched on twin hot seats as the December chill descends on the AFC North. Their teams' mediocre 2025 campaigns have wasted talent and stoked fan rage.
Harbaugh, who began his 18th season with a once-vaunted 170-103 record tarnished by a dismal 1-5 start marred by defensive collapses, hamstring injuries to Lamar Jackson, and eight blown double-digit leads since 2022, has watched his team claw back through November only to teeter on irrelevance, sparking rumors of a mutual parting after painful playoff ghosts from the Flacco era haunt the Lamar years.
Across the Keystone State, fan chants for Tomlin's dismissal echoed through Acrisure Stadium following a crushing 26-7 loss to Buffalo. His once renowned defenses regressing into sieve-like submission amid a quarterback merry-go-round featuring a fragile Aaron Rodgers, and six consecutive postseason flameouts outscored 73-0 in first quarters alone. Tomlin's ironclad streak of 19 non-losing seasons now hangs by a thread.
The upcoming Ravens-Steelers game on December 7 is more than just a renewal of the rivalry for these seasoned coaches, whose combined tenure spans nearly forty years without a hint of sub-.500 mediocrity until now. It's a referendum on redemption or reckoning, where failure could finally crack the unbreakable code of their coaching legacies.
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