Just one day after Mike Tomlin announced that he'd be walking away from his long-held job with the Steelers, team owner and president Art Rooney II offered curious parties some insight into how the conversation with the coach went down.
Speaking before reporters on Wednesday, Rooney said that he wasn't shocked by Tomlin's decision, per se, but also wasn't expecting the conversation to happen when it did. He added that he would've had Tomlin stick around if the coach wanted to, and did not try to talk him out of it.
