biggest issues with the steelers?

Seriously
Buccos are picking up some bats
Hopefully they can sign that Japanese 3B
Skenes could win 20 games easily if he had any sort of run support
Read an article today which I posted in other sports. That with his numbers 25 wins isn’t out of the question

 

My ex boss lives a good retirement
Travels a lot
Golfs
Sounds like you do too
Gives me hope in 5 yrs

 

To me, it seems that Khan has returned to taking the best player available rather than forcing a specific position to put the roster over the top.

In fairness to Colbert, he did far better when he just took the best players rather than trying to fill a specific shopping list.

Interesting to see how Juan approaches it moving forward. Does he stay true to his board or start forcing picks to fill roster holes?

 

thank you all for the greetings... as much as it seems like i am bashing tomlin, i'm not. i think he can again be a good coach. i just don't think he is a good coach for the steelers any longer. just as i felt cowher stayed 2 years too long, i feel tomlin has stayed 3 years too long. i also think knoll stayed too long.

i am also quite tired of hearing the who do you replace him with that is better? if you follow that frame of thinking i guess they never should have moved on and hired knoll, or subsequently cowher, and then tomlin. sometimes an organization needs change. and no, it isn't always going to be good...but is mediocrity good? i'd take a losing season or two to possibly progress forward as opposed to staying where the team is now. at some point you need to rebuild. that's just how it is. and i would prefer a rebuild as to what they perceive to be reloading because reloading isn't working.

 

Nope

No bashing

 

i understand that there is no context in a text box. but seriously, simply having an opinion that a coach has stuck around too long is certainly not bashing him. bashing him is much different that saying he has become complacent. which he has. and seriously, he has not hired good coordinators and position coaches. he simply hasn't. that is a fact. have his previous coordinators and position coaches that are no longer here lighting up the NFL anywhere? are they even employed in the NFL any longer? He hasn't developed players well. but again as noted, he hasn't always been given good drafts because before kahn how many players that were drafted were off the team in several years?

not everyone hates tomlin. i do not. but i am also unimpressed with him over the past 5 or so years. my late father and i disagreed for years over tomlin as i felt he was doing a good job earlier in his career and my dad didn't like him. i felt he was a very good motivator as a coach earlier in his career. i feel he is still a good motivator, but i have also come to believe he isn't good at preparing his teams to play against teams they should beat. he certainly gets them prepared for teams they are expected to lose to....so why can't he do the same against lesser competition?

 

I stopped reading when you called Chuck Noll "Knoll". A cardinal sin for Steelers fans.

 

damn...i was typing on a roll and didn't realize that k slipped in there.

<------dumbass

my fingers tend to go faster than my brain sometimes.

 

Back in the basement. So long as there is no salary cap they will live there forever.

 

The first part I can agree with. He seems like he might be a little tired of it all... but that is just a feeling based off of nothing at all from me lol

I don't know where this came from... I don't think this is the case at all. Especially since Khan is the contract, salary cap, and football ops guy and Weidl is the scouting and player personnel guy. Khan is not really the main "talent" guy.

He's the best we've had in almost a decade... which, isn't saying much. He's been a bit up and down IMO. Sometimes I feel like he calls awesome games and I come away very impressed with him. Other times, he has awful outings and I come away wondering what the heck he was doing (like the Browns game).

 

I think Weidl is more heavily involved in the draft and player personnel stuff. I do appreciate the "best player available" thing. He's done really well in some places, and had a couple duds as well. Overall the drafts have been good. Just haven't gotten that "massive hit" just yet. Maybe Fautanu or Harmon can develop into that PB/AP type guy we want.

 

Weidl certainly has influence. Definitely bringing a "you can never have enough guys on either line" POV to the draft.

It is weird, I was just looking over the Khan/Weidl drafts. And they are doing really well at lineman on both sides of the ball seemingly. But they can not pick skill position players worth snot. An almost total reversal of the last stages of Colbert's tenure as GM.

 

The Constant and his Enabler...

 

He got his marching orders...

 

Way too many people make determinations in hindsight.

I always follow the draft and for years have done my own evaluations and I have my own feelings on who should be taken and when.

I may disagree when certain players are taken or I may think they should have drafted a position of need earlier than they did, but the only thing that matters is how that draft turns out. There is always more than one way to get it done when it comes to building rosters. I understand people being frustrated about players they missed, but drafting is easy when you aren't the person doing it. In the moment, teams are picking from a pool of players that continues to reduce in size every time their turn comes around, and the very best talent has already been taken. They have their own set of team needs that have to be addressed, and sometimes that doesn't line up with what I think or what anybody else thinks. But you can't just bash a GM because they didn't take a player you covet if they put together a deep, talented group of draft picks that fill a roster with new talent.

Building the lines on both sides of the ball is always the best way to build a roster. It is the foundation on which everything else works. Not every pick is going to be perfect, but anyone that honestly assesses the amount of talent and quality players Khan, Weidl, and the scouting staff have brought in through the draft will admit it is absolutely ridiculous to draft that many quality players that have stuck to the roster over a 3-year period. I believe they will now be looking to add more skill position players to make the team more dynamic. If they can get to a quarterback they really like in the draft, they will take them. If they can't, they will most likely go after a free agent QB like Malik Willis, Mac Jones, etc...

 

See my signature.

 

You joined the MB to post this? Not really ground breaking. Glad you got it off your chest.

FMTI