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The Coaching Carousel Spins : Steelers and Eagles Face Uncertain Futures Nineteen years. That's how long Mike Tomlin held the fort in Pittsburgh . Gone now. Stepped down. His choice. The Steelers ' longest-tenured coach in North America— across all professional sports —just walked away from the Steel City after another playoff flameout. Meanwhile, in Philadelphia , Kevin Patullo got the axe. Fired. The Eagles ' offensive coordinator was shown the door after an underwhelming season that left fans scratching their heads at what could've been. Two coaching changes. Two different exits. Same question hanging over both franchises: What happens next? Pittsburgh: The End of an Era Tomlin didn't get pushed. He jumped. After Monday night's 30-6 embarrassment against Houston in the wild card round— his seventh straight playoff loss —the 53-year-old coach gathered his team Tuesday afternoon and told them he was done. Just like that. No losing season in ninet...

The NFL Goes to Ireland ( Because Apparently We're Exporting America's Concussion Problem Now) So the NFL went to Ireland this past Sunday. Yeah, Ireland. Land of Guinness, leprechauns, and now the Pittsburgh Steelers beating the Minnesota Vikings 24-21 at Croke Park in Dublin . First regular-season NFL game ever played in Ireland, and naturally, the Steelers won. Of course they did.  Now look, I'm not saying the Rooneys are running some kind of international goodwill tour to expand the NFL empire across Europe or anything. Okay, yeah, that's exactly what they're doing. But it's the nice kind of empire-building, alright? The kind where you bring football to people who actually call it " American football " because they already got a perfectly good football over there. Which is our soccer . (Which we were supposed to switch to because of all the head injuries.) But instead, we're going the other way. We're bringing the head in...