Arthur Smith stopped letting Russell Wilson change plays

I prefer jello pudding

 

If this issue happens over multiple QBs and OCs then the issue falls to the HC.

 

The run game wasn't exactly working .

 

All happening under Tomlin’s watch. Hes ultimately to blame. All these reports are just screaming that its time for coaching changes - wholesale.

 

The problem is….no good QB is going to want to play for an assclown who thinks his play calling is never wrong. Hell, And audibles plays in high school as a QB. Smith and Tomlin both need to go if this is the case. Russell Wilson knows 100% more about what he is seeing than those two and has a much better track record.

 

I'm not necessarily buying it, either. But it creates a fork in the road where it's either true, and there are questions about over-management; or it's not, and there are questions about proper game-planning.

 

No but it's the Steelers way by golly and that's what we're going to do!

 

Rooney is ultimately to blame.

That being said, it’s his business/team…he can run it however he feels. We are just customers, free to shop elsewhere

 

Tomlin's figerprints are all over this, he's basically the HC,DC and now OC, at this point. His only use he has for his co-ordinators is that of human shields and scapegoats, while he continues to sink further into hubris. This is late era Al Davis all voer again, meddling and controlling everything, trying outdated philosophies over and over again, and learning nothing. The only difference is Al Davis was an owner at that point and Tomlin is the HC.

Classic controlling and hubristic behaviour.

 

This is the key point. Regardless of whether the report is 100% accurate there was a very obvious shift in offensive philosophy from the first Cinci game to the second. It was baffling watching them run into stacked boxes again and again after Russ has carved them with the pass only a few week before. That change in philosophy can only have come from Smith / Tomlin.

I can understand them trying to play safer when Pickens missed that stretch of games and when they had so many injuries but they had everyone back for that Cinci game. Surely it was time to open up the offence a bit