Steelers of the 1980's > Steelers of the 2020's

It won't happen again until they have a HoF caliber QB, regardless of the coach. Same reason Andy Reid could not win **** without Mahomes or Belicheck without Brady.

 

Eagles won Super Bowls with Foles and Hurts.

 

We will have to see where Hurts' career ends up.

We can continue to cite the exceptions all we want. The bottom line is that without a HoF caliber QB you choose the route of relying on luck or a hot streak over consistent performance.

 

I think the criticism of Hurts is a little ridiculous sometimes.

They've made it to two SB's and won one in the last three years.

In those three years he has a 67% comp%, has thrown for 10,462 yards, 63 td's to 25 ints, and ran for 2000 yards and 42 td's.

So, he's responsible for 13,460 total yards from scrimmage(avg 4,500 per year), and 67 TD's(22 per season) I know a lot of those running td's are tush push, but he's also very good at that play, and has shown impressive durability through all of it.

Those numbers don't really point to someone who was merely along for the ride.

 

Why

They won with the current Hurts not the future Hurts

 

A quick question… who is the common denominator in this debacle?

 

This past 10 yrs of Steelers football is by far the worst in my lifetime. Even though they went 1-13 in 1969. Was only 4 so that doesn’t count

 

Popcorn

 

It was right around then that the Steelers were the THIRD most popular sports team in Pittsburgh. Anybody else remember that.... The Mario/Jagr, Bonds/VanSlyke/Bonilla time period...

 

excellent motivational skills...but motivational skills don't give a team an edge in the playoffs because all the teams are motivated at that time.

 

Cowhers teams of the mid 90's were better coached and way better drafted . Take a look at a roster from 94 or 95 and for every starter you can see the guy next in line.
Just much better depth throughout the entire line up.
I don't hate Tomlin but he is over matched against strong coaching.
I also think he lucked into a stacked defense in TB and a pretty good defensive lineup with the Vikings. I really don't see anything that would make me believe he is some kind of defensive genius . It seams like its been ten years and the Steelers still cannot cover a decent TE and after getting beat badly in the first half there are zero changes in the second.
He can motivate the players and they like him and play for him but scheme wise its just old.