Mike Tomlin has been there before, and came out on top, winning a Super Bowl.
Jim Caldwell has also been there, only coming up shy in Super Bowl 44 in his rookie season as a head coach.
Now these two head coaches are reunited on the field at Saint Vincent College, hoping that the work put in this week, can have them back to a Super Bowl in 2017.
"It was solely based on my relationship with Jim and knowing that we could come together and get good, positive, cooperative work without some of the nonsense that you're capable of seeing in these circumstances," Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said.
It's a relationship began 15 years ago, when Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy hired both Jim Caldwell and Mike Tomlin out of the college ranks to join his staff on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
"His Steady-Eddie consistent approach to the business regardless of circumstance really struck me back in 2001 when we first started working together," Tomlin added.
"Mike was working with the secondary at the time, I was on the other side of the ball working with quarterbacks and having an opportunity to watch him work, you could see early on he was spirited, smart," Lions head coach Jim Caldwell said.
How were the both of them alike and different?
"There's a huge age difference," Caldwell said with a laugh. "I think he's got a lot of uniqueness to him."
