{
  "id": 14664278,
  "title": "‘You’re dead’ – Mike Tomlin tells Travis Kelce the truth on NFL teams having players-only meetings",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/youre-dead-mike-tomlin-tells-travis-kelce-the-truth-on-nfl-teams",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-15T09:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Sports",
    "slug": "yahoo-sports",
    "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/dead-mike-tomlin-tells-travis-094500960.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin revealed the harsh reality behind players-only meetings in the NFL during an interview with The New Heights podcast alongside his sons, Travis and Jason Kelce. According to Tomlin, if a team were to hold such a meeting, it would be an ominous sign that the team's season was in serious trouble. He expressed that he would prefer not to be aware of his own team engaging in such a meeting. Tomlin's comment comes after the Dallas Cowboys held a players-only meeting following their Week 5 loss to the Buccaneers, where they ranked last in several defensive categories and were having a losing season. Tomlin, who spent 18 years as the Steelers' head coach and won a Super Bowl in 2008, emphasized that he would not want to know if his team had such a meeting, calling it \"BS.\"",
  "summary": "Former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin shared his true thoughts with Travis and Jason Kelce on what a players-only meeting means from an NFL standpoint. Teams in crisis or ones that lack cohesion often come to a point in a season where they have a players-only meeting to ensure that everybody is on the same page.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Yahoo Sports",
        "title": "Travis Kelce explains why Cleveland is a ‘baseball town’ and not an NFL one",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/travis-kelce-explains-why-cleveland-is-a-baseball-town-and-not-an-nfl",
        "published": "2026-10-15T09:40:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}