Mike Tomlin explains how he's changed as coach since his first year

Change is inevitable, and the Steelers are going through a transformative off-season. Pittsburgh is changing general managers, quarterbacks and more, but the one constant remains — Mike Tomlin.

As Tomlin enters another season at the helm in Pittsburgh, he joined The Rich Eisen Show to explain how he’s changed himself since his first season with the Steelers.

“I’m smarter, but smarter because of scars,” started Tomlin. “You grow, and often times growth is usually associated with failure. So, I’ve experienced a lot over the last 15 years. Hopefully I’m better for it, and hopefully I can apply those lessons learned to the crop that I’m working with this year. That’s always the goal. I better be continually getting better, in the same ways that we challenge our players to do some similar things.”

Evidently, Tomlin takes lessons from every season, every victory and every loss. Continuing, the Super Bowl champion coach revealed an interesting coaching philosophy he deploys.

“I have a bunch of individual relationships,” explained Tomlin. “I don’t try to treat people the same. That’s an impossibility. I try to treat people the way they deserve to be treated. So, I have a bunch of individual relationships, and there’s something to manage. But you know, as they say, that’s why they pay me the big bucks.”

Mike Tomlin seems to have this whole coaching thing figured out pretty well. Change may be coming to the Steelers, but Pittsburgh is fine as long as Tomlin goes nowhere.

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Furthermore, Mike Tomlin has been the head coach of the Steelers since the 2007 season, and he has seen a ton of success during that stretch.

Recently, Tomlin joined The Rich Eisen Show, where he addressed how much longer he intends to coach the Steelers. Tomlin didn’t give a specific timeline, but he said that the job is still something that fires him up every day.

“I love what I do,” Tomlin said. “So I’m singularly focused in that way. I hear some of that chit chatter, but it doesn’t move my needle. The challenges that this job holds does and it does continually. I’m fired up each and every day and I’m just thankful to have the opportunity to have to compete in the ultimate competitor’s league.”

In 15 years with the Steelers, Tomlin has coached to a 154-85-2 career regular season record. Pittsburgh won the Super Bowl in 2008 after a 12-4 regular season and made it back to the Super Bowl in 2010 after again going 12-4.

Since the Steelers hired Tomlin as their head coach, they have been one of the most consistent organizations in the entire NFL in terms of winning. Under Tomlin, the Steelers have never finished below .500, and have finished above .500 in 12 of his 15 seasons.