Coach Tomlin...........

I don't buy the "aging" excuse. Yes - the core (LBs, DL) has aged, but our secondary has been really crappy since about 2003 - and NOTHING has been done (substantially) to fix the problem. Scheme? Nope. Players? Hardly.

We saw flashes of what could be, even with just average players, in Sunday's win when we changed our scheme.

So the aging thing? Nah. I hang our lack of ability to change squarely on MT. When he makes changes to fix the problems, and we start being a force in the playoffs instead of a one-and-done team (if we make it) then I'll give him a break. I think the "what have you done for me lately?" cliché fits here.

 

I was ok with Tomlin celebrating to the camera....I just don't get a thread like this. Where is this coming from? We just won a HUGE game! Cant we just focus on that? When we suck of course Tomlin is going to take some heat. It's a message board. It allows fans to vent and celebrate.

 

At least we got rid of Bruce Arians, and he's proven what a bad coach he is.

 

Not really, Cowher had a career playoff record of 12-9, a respectable .571 winning percentage against good to great teams in the post season. That is close to somewhere going 9-7 or 10-6 each year against stiff competition. He certainly isn't at the Chuck Noll, Bill Belichick, or Tom Landry level. But he actually has a similar or better winning percentage than some other well known coaches including about being equal with Bill Parcells, and better than Andy Reid, Mike Holmgren, and Tony Dungy. Parcells is in the HOF and people seem to want to annoint Tony Dungy yet no-one barely speaks a word of Cowher who won for years without a franchise QB (although that was partly his fault).

 

Great post.

I have always felt Tomlin is a good coach in being a guy who relates the players well and he seems to be a guy who is fairly loose - butt doesn't clench up the way Cowher's did. I always thought that was important to a team of talented vets when he took over and he deserves some kudos for that SB victory. Where I don't think he is good is the details of the game, going with gut feels as opposed to having a measure of what the odds are, i.e what is a measured risk vs. an outlandish one. It is that area where I wish he would rely on others (i.e. get a good clock manager on the sideline, get someone watching the details like when Seattle obviously knew it was going to be a fake FG and call time-out).

 

One thing is for sure, they looked great when they started pressing more in the 2nd half of the broncos game. That should be done from now on.

 

just remember people
we did ding up Osweiler before the half too
so

 

Smh talking about Cowher's playoff record being mediocre.

Tomlin was 5-1 in the playoffs from 2008+2010.

Tomlin's record in his other six seasons is 0-3.

 

Cowhers way, = 10 times the coach of Tomlin

 

If scobee doesnt miss 4 field goals we're not in this position. That doesn't have jack to do with coaching. In a similar vein if we didn't lose Ben for 4 games and Bryant for that matter we're in n entirelt different position. Those two things don't have anything to do with coaching either. Let me guess when Ben throws 2-3 interceptions in a game and we lose you blame Tomlin? Ben's boneheaded interception last week should have cost us the game and probably would have with peyton,Brady,Luck Breeze... behind center. That is soley our 100million dollar franchise qb.

 

That has nothing to do with losing to Baltimore at home last season.

Steelers will make the playoffs but what will they do when they get there?

 

I would say two interceptions and two fumbles certainly had a big fat pile to do with losing. Anyone care to look up how many teams win games when they turn the ball over 3 times? What about 4?Maybe it's just me, but when your franchise qb throws two interceptions that's not coaches fault. Or when your 10 year vet te loses a fumble I blame the te as opposed to the coach. Do you blame Tomlin for Bell missing the game due to his bum knee as well?

 

The must win is because of multiple injuries, in particular Ben being gone for 4 games

 

NO no no. Apparently winter has had an affect on our mental capacity. Losing your franchise qb has zero affect on the outcome of games. If we lose it's because Tomlin sucks plain and simple.

 

Ben missed 0 games in 2013 and 2014 which is councidentally the same number of playoff wins Tomlin has since 2010.

Excuses for days.

 

People who hate Mike Tomlin are like 2 dollar bills -- it's mildly surprising when you see one. I don't even know how they exist.

 

Then why did he lose 4 AFC Championship games at home

 

Well part of it is in two of those losses he went up against outright better teams. The Patriots simply were a better team than PGH when they played them back in 05 and Denver was better too back in 97. Keep in mind that Denver team had gone 14-2 the year before and had their own fluke loss to Jacksonville in Denver.

The San Diego loss was awful and the first NE loss was really bad too, though there were a lot of freak-ish things that happened in that game where you thought the Steelers were kind of snake-bit.

 

No we don't blame Tomlin for injuries, and yes the interception thrown by Ben was absolutely Ben's fault. But Tomlin deserves plenty of criticism for the way he manages the clock, the way he is stubborn with sticking with certain players and not giving others a shot, and is at least partially responsible for a defense which hasn't gotten a lot better since the glory days - though I put more of that blame on Colbert.

 

Wow would I love to see the Steelers get to an AFC Championship game about now!!!

You either win the Super bowl or you don't but getting to the AFC Championship beats a wild card exit at home any day.

 

So... Ben is losing games by turning the ball over... And Tomlin's response is to have Ben throw it 50 times a game and abandon the run game despite having the best ypc in the NFL... And still Tomlin gets no blame?

You're like Tomlin. Your favorites can do no wrong.

 

During a night game (I forget when), they interviewed Harrison. They asked about Cowher & James got emotional & said he missed him. They asked about Tomlin & James said something like Tomlin's like one of them. A team needs a leader- not another friend.
I gave him a chance when he first came here. After a while, I just didn't like him & I still don't. It's not just about the playoffs either. I'd appreciate him if he'd win another Super Bowl but that won't erase the stupid decisions he's made (on & off the field) that cost us games we should've won. I don't like that he brought Vick here & I don't like how smug he acts either.
It is like beating a dead horse. But as long as Tomln is our HC,
there will a lot more of this going on. There will be nothing left of the horse!!

 

Lack of a QB, And i forget how many AFC championship games has Tomlin been in?,.. Esp with his players??