Mike Tomlin has no real relationship with Bill Belichick. They are peers — two of 32 NFL coaches — not friends. But Tomlin has tremendous respect for Belichick. u2761 “I certainly don’t think that my resume to this point reads as great,” Tomlin said last month in response to Terry Bradshaw’s asinine observation that Tomlin isn’t “a great coach at all” and is “really a great cheerleader guy.”
“But very few coaches’ resumes read as that at this point,” Tomlin continued. “Guys like Bill in New England probably can say that, [Gregg Popovich] down in San Antonio. I think the rest of us are just working stiffs.