It’s the moment the sports media industry has been circling for years — dating back to those 2021 comments from longtime Sunday Night Football producer Fred Gaudelli calling Tomlin “transformational” — and now that it’s finally here, Mike Florio explained why Tomlin’s plainspoken style is built for the format. According to Florio, Tomlin’s advantage is that he understands the game at its most basic level, and that’s what separates him from a lot of the coach-turned-analyst pipeline. “He’s just awesome,” Florio said on a recent edition of PFT Live. Mike Tomlin makes his TV debut tonight. It’s the landing spot that always felt like the favorite once Tomlin stepped down from the Steelers job in January.