Maybe Tomlin isnt so bad.

Did you see what the suckhawks did to the cardinals? I think I ll take Tomlin's not being prepared over Whiz's. This board would burst into flames if we lost 58-0.

 

the board would be the smallest problem, the city of pittsburgh would go full bane on heinz field

[video=youtube;0bnzCnhsCQM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bnzCnhsCQM[/video]​

 

Its still a loss no matter if the score is 58-0 or 34-24. Not being prepared is unacceptable no matter who the coach is. I dont think you can choose one coaches level of being unprepared over anothers.

 

8 turnovers in the game, cant predict those.

 

Sure you can pick. It would hurt alot more losing to the brownies 58-0.

 

you mean those same brownies who whipped the Chiefs we barely beat at home a few week back ???

maybe just maybe this team is not nearly as good as we believe them to be ??

after all Norv " F$#%&#@ Turner" beat us

 

Bingo!!!!! I thought I was the only one.

 

i have wondered about this for a while. We have some tremendously gifted players in the physical skills department, but I wonder how bright they are. Route running and heads up situational football, skills we seem to lack, are cognitive skills, and I am not sure many of our players are gifted in that area.

 

I don't give a rat's ass abought some other team or there coaches, If Tomlin is as great as everyone say's he is,..( players, fans, mediea) he damn well better start shoing it and get this crap turned around..

 

Giants ???? middle of the road team nothing more
Redskins see Giants ....

Ravens ?? perhaps the luckiest team in the league this year , could as easily have twice as many losses .... but the one thing they normally do is find a way to win whereas we find ways to lose ....

if we come up against a Denver or Houston in the playoffs we are DONE with a Capital D ...be honest with yourself we have not beaten a TRUE QUALITY opponent all season ( in fact other than week 1 who have we played that should be considered QUALITY ? ) NOBODY ... I love the Steelers as much ( or more ) than the next guy but I refuse to be blinded by that love for the team to not be able to see the writing on the wall ...sure we have some quality players and maybe more than most other teams do but we do not play like a quality team most Sundays ... this team does not look emotionally invested in the game and far to many guys are just waiting to thump their chest while making a normal play that should be expected of them as a Pro player ...

Maybe it is me , maybe it is the change in culture of the team , maybe it is society itself these days ... but in my opinion these guys need a lesson or two in humility , The Barry Sanders school of act like you have been there before Humility .... seems like nearly every time one of our WR drop a ball with close def coverage they are motioning for a flag even when its clear they just did not make a play they should have made .... no humility !! no accountability !! always looking to place blame on why they did not succeed instead of simply just looking in the mirror for the solution to the equation they are looking to blame someone else ...

Tomlin is where it starts and stops . cliche after cliche is getting old ACTIONS speak louder than words ...

you want results MAKE results the only option , you bench RBs who fumble Bench WR's that drop catchable balls ... make people be accountable if they can not do it alone ... they say winning breeds success , then complacency breeds losing .... our team has been complacent .....

a complacent mentality is a losing mentality , a team not ready to play because they look past opponents or take win for granted is a team that will lose and we have witnessed it time and time again Just because we are the Steelers does not mean a team will lay down for you , you still have to EARN the W and we are not a team that forces lesser teams to earn anything ...

again that is on Tomlin for not making people accountable for so long ... it looks like he is starting to but consistency is key and he has not been consistent in those efforts ..in fact the only thing Tomlin is consistent with is his cliche talk ...

Wake up Mikey its time to become a real coach !!!

 

I disagree that the TEXANS or BRONCO'S would beat us in the playoffs tho

 

if you want to see what a decent team does to an inferior opponent look at what the Seahawk's did to the Cards yesterday ...

hell look at what the Browns did to the Chiefs and we lost to the winner of that game and BARELY beat the loser ( and easily could have lost but where blessed with a couple of close calls that changed the outcome )

 

I'm not a "blame everything on Tomlin" critic, but his reason for not going for two yesterday when he could have on a couple of occasions is laughable. So you want to keep those two point conversion trick plays in your pocket do ya Coach T? Okay, we'll buy that. Say you have a beach front condo in downtown Pittsburgh you'd like to sell us? Okay, just name your price.

 

Was looking for a place to put a few of these painful links, I just read, and this seems to be the thread, since the "venting" one must have been buried...
http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/3102997-85/steelers-field-chargers#axzz2Ehq4mQxy
http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/3111569-85/steelers-season-team#axzz2Ehq4mQxy
http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/3106468-85/steelers-bengals-beat#axzz2Ehq4mQxy
I tried to post this a minute ago, with comments about each article in between them, but, somehow canceled my post out, so I will just say this...
The three articles referenced above, include a mix of players taking accountability, Veteran players calling out the younger ones, and some players just sounding perplexed by what just happened to them, and how it seems to happen so frequently.
Now, I will provide the link I meant to put first, because, i am by no means a Tomlin "HATER"...
But he is making it more and more difficult for me to defend him, based on his in game choices(or lack thereof), and post-game explanations(and lack thereof)...
Again, these aren`t MY words, but this writer seems to have some valid points for Tomlin`s supporters to adress...
(If any of them know how to put the full text directly in this thread, I would appreciate,
Along with counter-arguments...?)
http://triblive.com/sports/-topstories/3102976-85/tomlin-steelers-smoked#axzz2Ehq4mQxy
Tough for me to argue with his points, even tho I am tryin my best to support Coach T...

 

the rams are one half game behind us. there new coach has taken inferior players and put some fire under them to win. they are looking for a playoff game too. they took the 49'ers to a tie and a close loss. they are not last years rams by any means. they now have a good coach leading the charge. makes a difference.

 

"Hey look, it's some dude's back! I think I'm going to hit it...What do you mean that's a penalty?!"

 

LOL

 

In Tomlin's six season with the Steelers, they've been been to two Super Bowls and won one of them. They’ve made the playoffs in four of his first five seasons. He took over an elite NFL franchise from Bill Cowher in 2007 and it remains so today. But there's almost no denying the fact his teams lose an inordinate amount of times to weak opponents.

Tomlin was compared with four other successful NFL coaches, Bill Belichick. Tom Coughlin, John Harbaugh and Mike McCarthy. In the case of Belichick, Coughlin and McCarthy the comparison was from 2007 until today. The comparison with Harbaugh begins in 2008, his first season in Baltimore. Just for fun, we also threw in the final 93 games (a tie was omitted) of Cowher's Steelers tenure.

A staggering 35 percent of the Steelers loses under Tomlin have come against teams that finished the season with a losing record. McCarthy was the only coach remotely close to Tomlin in losing to losing teams. (This is based on season record, not the record of the opponent at the time of the game.)
Losses to
Coach Record Winning pct. losing teams Pct. percentages of loss's to losing teams in red

Belichick 74-19 .795 4 .210
Coughlin 57-36 .612 6 .167
Harbaugh 53-24 .688 4 .167
McCarthy 64-29 .688 8 .276
Tomlin 62-31 .667 11 .354 <-------WTF nobody else is close
Cowher 61-31 .663 7 .225

 

After hearing his press conferance today , I think Tomlin has already checked out for the year, Just wana say i didn't hear it all, but what i heard it did't sound good to me