Mike Tomlin thinks it's racist to call him a player's coach

The man is clueless, and full of hot air,

 

What else do you expect from a oil salesman coach with a 90 IQ?

Now he's a racist conspiracy theorist.

We need to get as far away from this shtick as we can.

 

Wow! I'm seeing this for the first time. What a loser this guy is. Apparently being a players coach is a racial thing now. What a joke. I can't believe he brought race into that discussion. This guy is beyond clueless. No wonder he can't coach a football team, he doesn't have a clue about anything. I hope the Rooney's pull this loser aside and make him apologize for his idiotic comments. He's basically accusing people of racism by calling him a players coach.

The sooner this idiot is gone the happier I will be.

 

hahaha...lets see the defending of this video in 3.....2......1

 

The more he talks the dumber he sounds. This man wants to act cool and sound cool more than he wants to dive in and work at solving the problems. Hate to break the news to him but he isn't succeeding at either looking or sounding cool. He simply comes across as some one in way over his head. I wish he could grow into the job of head coach like I posted two and a half years ago but he has not moved forward in that time span, he is moving backward.

 

I got almost half way through, I couldn't finish.
I don't want to hear that bull.

 

Was this on pregame today???

 

Also to be fair, nobody uses it with race on their mind. That was such a stupid comment by Tomlin

 

Yeah.

 

He said some of it "might be because of his race" and said "DL is an old white guy and he's a players coach but you don't hear anyone talking about that" or something like that. I agree that players coach is not a compliment. I also have always thought Tomlin was a players coach. At least since his 2nd season. Remember how many guys thought he was too hard his first year? That's why I'm saying since his 2nd season.

 

She insinuated that the term players coach is no longer a compliment.

 

The beloved Rooney's have painted themselves in a corner with this hire. Its the bed they made. But the problem is, every fan of this organization has to sleep in it.

The Rooney's suck for having hired him. I'm sure I'm not going to win any friends on this board by saying so, but it is what it is. OBVIOUSLY.

 

Did anyone hear the guy named "Dave" from Chattanooga TN call Cooler Talk today? He went on an EPIC rant about how Tomlin was nothing more than a "Rooney Rule Hire" and the Pittsburgh press won't take him to task and that's why he gets to stick around? He said "BA should have been the coach and now he's coaching up a storm in AZ". He went on and on about how useless Tomlin is and how the media covers for him. Charlie said he was wrong and that Tomlin would fix these problems and the he cares deeply about how good the team is. I bet that just made that guy even more mad. LOL. I personally think it is a REALLY low blow to call him a "Rooney Rule Hire" and frankly that IS probably a racist thing to say. However, the caller was black. So maybe not? I just think calling him a Rooney Rule guy is the equivalent of saying "without affirmative action he wouldn't be here".

 

He said AGE or RACE. Depending on the circumstances in which the question is asked it might be related to his age or race. We don't always know the circumstances in which the questions were/are asked.

 

Regardless, there were many many responses he could have given that didn't involve throwing the "race card..."

 

He probably wouldn't have got the job if not for the Rooney rule

 

He basically implies it. He says he gets called a players coach because he's a young black man but Dick Lebeau doesn't get called a players coach because he's an old white man. Apparently only young black coaches can be players coaches. I've never heard that before. In fact, most of the time I hear of a coach being a players coach, he's a white guy.

 

Hey, for many people, the truth hurts! I disliked the hiring from day one and couldn't believe they passed on Whiz or Grimm...

 

If only people could walk in Tomlin's shoes for a few days then maybe they would understand??

 

Well the rule just says you have to interview and not hire. I'm not a cheerleader of his by any means. I just don't want reduce him to his race ya know? There are bad white coaches too.