This is not a 'Tomlin Out' thread, nor a 'Tomlin In' thread

But in all seriousness, should Tomlin go at the end of this season (which I personally don't think WILL happen, we tend not to fire coaches, rightly or wrongly), who would you REALISTICALLY have as his replacement?

If it were me, I would drive up to New England and present Matt Patricia with a blank cheque. We need a defensive guy going forward, the offense more or less takes care of itself (although Todd Haley might need a talking to). So there would be my choice

 

I don't know if he will or won't he probably won't but I do know it's getting harder and harder to defend Mike Tomlin when the Steelers keep having these horrific games on the road against sub-par teams. He continues to waste away the last few good years Ben Roethlisberger has left. As bad as this division is this year I still think the Steelers will win it but if they don't then the front office needs to seriously take a long hard look at Tomlin and figure out what the hell to do moving forward.

 

Agreed with this and I am glad someone brought up Patricia because I was wondering if he is so good why haven't we heard any rumors about him with other teams? It feels like he has been there a long time and with all the sucess of the Cheats and all the coaching changes every year why hasn't a team looked at him????? Jax and Cleveland have had how many coaches and never looked at Patricia.....just sayin

 

Have you been watching the Offense lately? And Mike Tomlin is a defensive guy.

 

I would take bellicheck in a heart beat

 

Tomlin was damned if he did... damned if he didn't yesterday. Could you imagine this message board if Tomlin started Landry Jones over Ben and Jones ended up losing to the Ravens? All we would be hearing is that Ben should have started... Jones sucks, Tomlin is a moron.... blah, blah, blah.

 

ME TOO
out back to the wood shed
bip bam boom

 

oh you're so bad mmm

 

I've been a Tomlin supporter for quite some time now but the story is getting old. We all understand that we will lose some games but I look at how bad we are prepared for these games. I mean you can play good and still lose. Maybe it's a play here and there or the other team just had the ball last and move it down the field. But we look so unprepared in all the games we lost. And even the ones we won we didn't looked like a well oiled machine.

I don't know what Tomlin preparation is week to week but I just can't believe after two weeks, we look so terrible. It's like we didn't practice since before the Patriots game.

 

Steelers will have to win the next 3 games in order to even sniff the playoffs. 7-4 after Thanksgiving game... with pretty much a 10 day bye week to prepare for the Giants on December 4th at Heinz Field.

 

Such a post is part of a deeper issue of microcosms within the fan base.



We as fans really cannot go either/or in terms of the events yesterday. In the grand scheme of things, none of this matters if the players do not play well enough nor if the coaches (or coach) does not prepare the team well enough. All we can do at this point is speculate; quite void of a reason now that Dallas is fast approaching.

 

To answer the question, no one really.

 

How many of Belichick asst. coaches turned into good HC?

 

Injuries or not, it still doesn't excuse all the stupid penalties and boneheaded decision making throughout the game.

 

If that indeed is true, that is pathetic that a back-up doesn't know the plays. I understand not wanting to run some of the more complex blocking plays but come on.

 

I think KC should go, I don't think this Team has enough talent on Defense to trust its self ....We need real players we need a new bolder move up the board , move down the board , make some trades whatever it takes to get the talent we need at DB's and pass rushers ...Ben's time is short so it's time to build a Defense ...

 

It is sad that our hopes of winning a game are dramatically diminished that much when one guy goes down. They need to have a better "just in case" plan.

 

I've used in the past to defend Tomlin "There's nobody better out there" But I'm really not believing that anymore. There has to be someone better. I'd be better.

 

Preperation!!!!!!!!!

 

I agree with this and I will tell you what IMO a 10% healthy Ben is better then any of the back ups we have at full strength. My son got a kick out of me when the announcers in the 3rd quarter talked about Tomlin making the call to sit Ben. I went nuts, if you feel he is healthy enough to start then play him. He is our guy good or bad and I know we all have seen both.

What kills me is the stats are out there how bad Ben plays in his first game back from injury. Where was the quick passes to get Ben's feet wet, to ease him back in. If AB is getting covered with 2-3 guys man throw to the other side with a quick slant or a quick out, or better yet throw to Bell coming out of the backfield......oh wait we were to busy lining him up out side to show we were going to pass.Also where was the no huddle to change the pace, that always seems to help us get out of our funk. The game plan sucked is that Haley or is that Tomlin, IDK and I don't care it is someone and it was bad.

At the end of the day if we could pull Ben out of the game a few weeks back when he got hurt and left him in there in when the game was out of hand we shouldn't have even thought about pulling him out Sunday. JMO

 

Jim Harbaugh makes 5 million a year at Michigan so it would take 6 or 7 to get him here