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Ron Cook: Mike Tomlin is losing allies as Steelers sink to new lows

PITTSBURGH — It's one thing for Rocky Bleier to criticize a Mike Tomlin team. He might be a Steelers legend, but he didn't play for Tomlin and the two aren't close. That's why when Bleier made incendiary observations such as "the Steelers suck" and the team is "a disaster," you just sort of laughed and moved on.

But it's something much different when Ryan Clark is doing the lambasting. He played for Tomlin from 2007-13 and is extremely close to him. That was clear when Tomlin appeared on Clark's "The Pivot" podcast in June.

Clark smooched Tomlin's behind that day, but this was his tweet after the Steelers were smashed by the Buffalo Bills on Sunday:

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