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

Have I not said he is in over his head? I hate to say I told you so. This is not a racist comment,
I don't care if your blue if you can play or coach.

 

that's what i saw from the beginning , he is not bad is completely clueless , i don't understand how the rooney cannot see it .. to me is a public relation guy that is failing in this camp too....incredible

 

I agree BUT I didn't think it was derogatory. I thought it just meant "soft to the players" I would have never thought it had anything to do with color!

 

Agree..I think people hear what they want to hear...no one mentioned the fact that he brought up his age as well????

 

"players coach" is great if you're winning, baaaaaad if your team is 8-8 two seasons in a row after being tebowed and now losing to Tampa bay. Coach is feeling the heat and is NOT responding well. I hope he can get his mind right and rally this team but this interview shows a disconnect between reality and his mind.

He needs to own it. If you've just won the Super Bowl and someone calls him a "player's coach" he's not crying about age or race. He smiles and says "thank you" and owns it. Only when losing is "players coach" or "disciplinarian coach" a bad thing.

Tom Coklin from Giants was taking major flak from players and media for making a big deal about being on time for meetings, then he won some super bowls and no one is critical of his ways now.

 

I can only assume that he'd call the well deserved criticism he gets here a hate crime.

IMO this is a sign that he's starting to feel the heat and is losing it.

 

But he did cal Dick LeBeau an old white guy.. How can he not call him an old coach! Or an old guy!

Holy Crap! This needs to be seen for more than just an interview.

How about TB.'s response? 100% correct. If Coach T feels this, then how are the players not recognizing it also? Steeler's org is at a boiling point.

Rooney's were some of the biggest proponent's of integrating head coach positions... did they have to start with Tomlin, though?
I am sure this gets swept under the rug while the domestic abuse thing is still hot but oh my... this can't be left to rest.

 

"A week ago we were that team ..."

And you are again Mike ... so no, you did not take the "appropriate action".

 

is not only the records is where this team is becoming .. penalties people that act like they are in a pub , coach that call bell mo..f.., i mean this is the new style the steelers is adopting ???? wtf

 

I don't care what he called Bell. I do care about the lack of focus, the lack of discipline, and guys getting stupid penalties because they just have to have a choreographed "look at me" moment after they make a god damn play.

 

I still view Tomlin as a guy who really has no philosophy, has no real identity of what he wants his team to be. He appears to grab bag at the way he handles situations and with his players all too often. Here is a perfect example.

Think of the loss in Cleveland a few years ago when Roeth was hurt and Batch had a crummy game. Mendenhall fumbled - taken out of the game. Dwyer fumbles - taken out of the game. I think someone else fumbled and we were down to our 4th string running back. Where is the context of the situation? I get it fumbling is bad, but for all the criticism of Mendenhall he was a good back and he actually was not excessively turnover prone. Sit him a series - sure - but take your best back out for the entire game, really? Especially with a backup QB who hadn't started a game for 2-3 years?

Then you take yesterday - Bell runs for 15 yards or so, gets a taunting penalty and NOTHING - even though you have a guy in Blount who is basically worthy of a starting role himself. You mean Bell couldn't be sat for a series or two?

Players coach - it appears to be yes - especially for many guys who get in his good graces and then are afforded as much slack as they want. Apparently Bell is on a pedestal w/Tomlin and can do no wrong - even when he obviously has.

 

How many HC jobs has Grimm been offered, and the Steelers beat Whiz in the Super Bowl

 

Grimm should have never been in the conversation. He was completely unqualified.

 

Dude I could tell you the damn sky is blue and you'd argue with me...I'm over it already

What has Tomlin done since all of Cowher's players have left?! THAT is the " "

 

TTF and rule, I've been part of this board long enough to know that both of you are very intelligent and articulate individuals and neither of you strike me as being the least bit naive. So....don't give me this crap.

What do you think Tomlin meant when he said he was called a player's coach "because of my race" and went on to comment that DL doesn't get referred to as a player's coach because he's "an old white guy"?

Come on now gents. Let's get real, shall we?

 

How about you get real and quote what he actually said?

 

Enlighten me, strummer. What did he actually say????

 

“That is the first I ever heard if it,” Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said on Monday’s PFT Live. “He also mentioned young coach too, that kind of took that as a not an insult, but he wasn’t real happy with people calling him a players’ coach because he thought it was a little racist and because he was a young coach. There were times Bill Cowher was considered a players’ coach here, and I never thought of it as being a bad thing. Maybe he takes it as such, maybe he thinks people believe he’s coddling the players, which is not the case, I don’t think, any more than Bill Cowher coddled players. I was a little surprised by that.”

the best comment i found is this :
He IS a player coach. He even gets on the field to block return attempts.

 

You're one of the people with their panties in wad over this. Set aside your hatred for Tomlin for 30 seconds and actually listen to the what he says. Don't add or subtract words, but actually freaking listen for a change.