Mike Tomlin is stepping down from the Steelers

Hope you had a good summer

It’s football season

 

I wish I knew why people have said this? I understand that you had some extremely intelligent, stunningly handsome people here before but how can you tell through the internet?

 

I think it's true that the team isn't as good as it was when Tomlin started.

But I think it's also true that the team's been held together with spit and duct tape for the last few years. And I don't think a lot of coaches could do that.

I personally would have preferred a rebuild. Maybe not right when Ben was done. But when we realized that Kenny wasn't an NFL starter.

But that wasn't the marching orders that were given to the team.

 

Tomlin didn't do anything special. Your consistent positive appraisal of his coaching abilities are way off the mark. He should have been fired 10 years ago.

 

I would have been fine if he was fired after Ben got hurt.

If we really want to use hindsight, the best thing for the team would have been to trade Ben, Tomlin, and everything else the day after the GB SB loss.

It was all downhill from there.

We'll see what happens this year.

If we come out and win 11+ games (especially 12+) without some kind of freak event, I think it will be clear that MM is a better coach than Tomlin.

I don't think I am overvaluing Tomlin. But I do think lots of people undervalue him because of the history of the team.

It certainly sucks that we haven't won a playoff game in way, way too long. He plays a role in that (although I think a bigger part is also Ben and turnovers).

It also sucks that he had a playoff record that was below 0.500. I do think that number should be put in context. Because he's really being penalized for coaching teams to the playoffs that really had no business getting there.

Obviously, I think my opinion is right. Just like you think your opinion is right.

I tend to think I have more compelling arguments...but that's unsurprising because I'm the one that made them.

Bottom line is that I was not sad to see Tomlin leave. I think it probably should have happened sooner. I think we probably need to bottom out to get the best chance to draft a QB. And the data suggests that Tomlin was pretty good at getting teams that weren't that great to decent records. I don't think McCarthy has that "problem".

So once Rodger's is gone, I expect that we'll see a bad year or two.

Which is what I think we need.

 

We have 10 wins back to back to back, and been to the playoffs 5 out of the last 6 years. Don't try hedging your talk now. If McCarthy is better coach than Tomlin, which I hope he is we should win more games. You can't have it both ways

 

They why couldn't Steelers win anything with Le'Veon Bell, Antonio Brown and HOF QB? Along with pro-bowl OL? If he was a good as you believe he was... why couldn't we win a Super Bowll with All Pro WR, RB and HOF QB? Answer is... his defense sucked, which is his specialty and responsiblitiy.