The lethal combination of Tomlin and Rooney

No fool. The SB is the most important.

 

O'Donnell did not win the super bowl under Noll...Same thing for the rest of the team.They make the playoffs only once in the previous 7 years under Noll.They had very little experience....Not good comparaison with the team of 2007 who had super bowl experience just 2 seasons before!

 

Hard to win the super bowl without playoffs win for 9 years in a row

 

Hard to have playoff wins without winning enough games to make the playoffs, just ask You HC idols from Vikings, and Detroit that were supposed to out coah us last year. LOL

 

I mean Cowher make the playoffs 10 times in 15 years....

 

He didn't win the SB under Cowher either.
Again, no cherry picking, just every single game that they coached all together.

Cowher: 161- 99- 1, and 2 SB appearances, and 1 SB win.
Tomlin: 201- 125- 2, and 2 SB appearances, and 1 SB win.

Only a person that chooses feelings over facts would say with those facts that one is better than the other.

 

Last time I checked, a team in the AFC or NFC has to win at least 2 playoff games to get to a Super Bowl. 2 games if team is #1 seed. 3 games if team is #2-7 seed.

 

Last I checked a team has to win enough games to get to the playoffs to win those games.
Here is a simple approach to the season.
Preseason: Get out healthy, and pick the correct players to make the 53. Nothing else matters.
Regular Season: Win enough games to make the playoffs, and hopefully 1st seed. Nothing else matters.
Playoffs: Win enough games to make the SB. Nothing else matters.
Regular

 

I don't think there's any real argument to this, here on Earth One. Cowher was clearly and obviously the better coach.

As the years go by... time and circumstances will verify this.

 

Somehow @Steelersfan43 will blame the defense for the loss .

 

Except he hired a bunch of former NFL headcoaches.

 

Yeah, because the three and outs the turnovers early in the game was everybody else's fault .

 

You are 100% wrong on this....Look my post at the post 637

 

Ben did not play since 2022,the 65 games or so in a row without scoring over 7 points in the first quarter...I guess those game are the fault of Ben

 

@steelersrule6 on the ground after this!

 

That was a different era where playing Marty ball worked, he wouldn't win playoff games in this era with those scrubs .

 

What the heck are you even talking about? I don't give a crap about that first quarter streak, I was talking about the Chiefs playoff game when Ben sucked .

 

I haven't seen anybody say Tomlin was the better coach, some of us just push back on the Cowher glazing .

 

13 of the 15 QB who win the super bowl during the Cowher era are in the HOF(or are future HOF)....QB was always a crucial position

 

I never blamed the defense for this game.They had no chance for that game...again look at the post 637 of this thread

 

Brad Johnson
Trent Dilfer
Jeff Hostetler
Nick Foles

 

Noll was still the steelers head coach when Jeff Hostetler won the super bowl.Tomlin was the head coach when Foles win the super bowl.....Johnson and Dilfer are the only one who will not be in the HOF who won the super bowl in the Cowher era...It was my point

 

Joe Gibbs won the Super Bowl with three different QBs

 

Cowher actually game planned, fielded and prepared a competent defense that could stop the run and get 3 and outs. This would help any offense...with or without franchise QB. Tomlin failed miserably starting with AFC Championship loss to Patriots in '16 season and it continued until January of this year.