how do you like your crow?

Making the playoffs just bought Tomlin at least 3 more years.

 

I think Bell is the difference.

 

Agree. I just hope Haley sticks around.

 

I just love the fact that Tomlin sticking around for awhile agitates some people!

 

I think Haley has definitely earned his keep. We just have a really balanced offense and I think he is exactly what the Rooney's were hoping for. I'm so glad that BA was insubordinate to them. I really like Haley's system and am still proud to the the President of the I Love Todd Haley Club. Some of my members left to "spend more time with their families" and all that. LOL. If you want in though I have an open space. Just let me know when you can show up for the interview. LOL.

 

I'll eat a little crow, but I'm not ready to eat a whole bird yet. I'm very surprised and very proud of the way this team has turned things around after the jets game. All that said, if we go one and done or if we get absolutely throttled by NE or Denver it will sour things a bit for me. I know this team is capable of being competitive with Nation Wide and pretty boy, and It would be so gratifying to go into their house and beat them. Time will tell if they are ready for the next step.

 

Don't forget I'm still Charman of the board but since I've known him since 7th grade I should probably just be promoted to VP.

EDIT: Speaker of the house.

 

You got it! Also that's really cool. I didn't know that. Did you know that Coastal Steeler is his cousin?

 

A good Headcoach can get the team up for the really bad teams and crush them. Real pro players get themselfs up for real competitive games,the competition gets the adrenaline pumping, no motivational coaching needed. The only reasons you lose to sory teams are bad preperation,bad motivating,sorry coaching. With our talent we should never win less than 11 games in the regular season. Add losses to sorry teams over the last 3 or 4 yrs. and this year and we would win at least 11 a year. With some of the new talentit should be the standard.

 

I do now. Wonder if he went to Upper St. Clair as well. The funny thing is that Haley never played football. Was on the golf team.

 

Actually I think Coastal was talking about that once. What's funny is when I was at the Titans game this year Haley was passing football before the game and looked like he could actually sling it pretty good. Seems like he was actually a lefty as well.

 

I think Haley is the only NFL coach who never played football at any level. I don't believe Chuck Daly ever played basketball so success can be had anyway.

 

Couldn't the fact be that Tomlin has a hand in developing Bell and Brown? He has been here the whole time.
However, I do believe that the schemes in coach Dicks system take too long to learn, and that if we want to have an improving defense year over year we need a new coordinator and system. coach has had a long and distinguished career, he has more than earned a ride off into the sunset.

 

Didn't Holmgren make it to the NFL without being a football player as well?

 

I guess I have to some to... I always do a 16-0 prediction, because I will NEVER predict them to lose a game. BTW.. I like mine with butter and garlic please

 

to be fair, tomlin was on the hot seat after 2 straight 8-8 seasons.. the losses to the bucs and jets didn't help either...neither does our record against losing teams.... the team is playing better now.. they're more disciplined and the penalties are down, so the seat is obviously cooler now..

haley definitely deserves some props... I don't think we've ever led the league in total offense before, but here we are with one game left, and we're on top of the total yds. list

keep in mind though, that none of this happens without munchak

 

I'm in too. I got really frustrated with all of our coaches, especially with losses we should have won. I was listening to a national radio show and they stated that we were really young in the beginning and have seemed to gel and grow. Is that the case? Were we just young and I took it out on the coaches?


I know we are young at some spots and old at others and I for one have been a defender of Troy. I will say the coaches and the players are playing very good right now and for that I am thankful but I still can't get the bad taste of Tampa, the Jets and the Saints out of my mouth.


Good Job Tomlin, Hailey and DL for the way we have finished.

 

this

 

Tomlin may have been on the hot seat when it comes to some of the fans. I don't believe he was ever on Rooney's hot seat.

 

the rooney's are far too classy to state anything publicly, but there's no way that tomlin would've stayed if we missed the playoffs for a 3rd straight season

 

I agree 100%.

This organization has had three head coaches since 1969, and a record that is the envy of the league in that time frame. Having said that, I'll trust the Rooney's and their judgement when it comes to the people they have running their football team, not the mindless nattering of frustrated, spoiled fans.

 

I'm not a Tomlin supporter, prob nvr will be ,, But since he prt of the team i will give him credit, ... I don,t eat crow to often, now i kno why , dont care much for the taste..