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The Mike Tomlin (and general coaching) Complaint Thread

Discussion in 'Steelers Talk' started by AtlSteel, Oct 17, 2025.

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  3. Rodgers

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  5. No one

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  6. Rooney

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  7. Some one else

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  1. ElPsycho

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    You sound like Tomlin, hey Tomlin take your word salad and your apostrophe fanboy here and go write a dictionary. Leave the Steelers to a real coach. Pittsburgh schemes made Rodgers look mediocre. How do you f up a wet dream besides get rid of Pickens with a Rodgers coming in. Kaksuckers afraid of using tight ends?
     
  2. Steeldude

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    Fans are finally seeing that Tomlin is a joke : )

    I hope they trade Tomlin. It would be nice to get something useful from him.
     
  3. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    Well that was unprovoked. Attack the argument not the board member.
     
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  5. SteelLion69

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    Wow. Mike Tomlin has lost Stephen A Smith. I was curious about what was going to be said on First Take, and he said it was time to move on.
     
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  7. Thor

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    I liked the part when he noted Tomlin was all about running the ball and stopping the run on D when he was hired, and after 10 of mediocrity his team ran the ball for 53 yards and gave up 249.

    Shows how lost the whole team has become. And they sure looked it yesterday.
     
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  8. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    Nail on the head. A decade of mediocrity, stuck in the middle. Cant draft high enough to really improve your roster and cant compete for championships.
     
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  9. Steelersfan43

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    Not this again... The biggest problem for Tomlin is that his expiration date is passed a long time ago, and the longer they wait, the uglier it's going to be.

     
  10. Ray D

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    The time for that was 3 months ago. We're not getting anything for him now.
     
  11. Ray D

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    Since Tomlin last sniffed a Superbowl, 3 head coaches have won a Superbowl and then been fired after a few underachieving years.

    Bruce Arians was scapegoated by this team and fired "retired." What did he do after that? Oh, idk, won Coach of the year... twice. (How many times did our head cheerleader win that?) And won a Superbowl.

    In the last 15 years, Tomlin has won a total of 3 playoff games... in 2 seasons. 2 out of 15. (counting this year, but we all know he ain't getting one this year either)

    By any measure, that's failure. So why is he untouchable???
     
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  12. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    0-6 last 6 playoff games
    21 point deficit in each
    Out scored 73-0 in the first quarter

    FMTI
     
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  13. Michael E

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    About 3 or 4 years LATE, but SAS and others were doing everything they could to give Tomlin 3, 4, 5 chances and make just enough excuses to forgive his ineptness. When SAS and others capitulate, that is saying, letting Tomlin go was 2 or 3 years OVERDUE. Even the last holdouts are sick of this smoking dumpster. It may not be a raging dumpster fire like Cleveland was/is for almost three decades, but it's closer to that than anything resembling an AFC championship game participant (forget SB, a pipe dream the past 7 years plus). Too many medicore teams have risen up and tried to find the right coach in the past 10 years. Some failed, some are now tasting great success.

    We let Tomlin go, maybe we find a worse coach, it's possible, not kidding myself, but I'd rather take that chance than stay the disgusting course with Tomlin. Rooney needs to take the risk to be great again, even if it means a couple of poor hires along the way. It's not like going 5-12 a few years is really any worse than 9-8 and everyone knowing this is just a playoff bait team for a shark of a team/coach to humiliate.
     
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  14. Michael E

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    A rotting turd sandwich and some fries.

    Sadly, very sadly, I think SOME team out there might trade something for Tomlin. Seriously. The owner may be so football clueless that the name Tomlin is famous for winning a super bowl during the Jurassic era. HIRE HIM! GM will be like, are you sure, his teams have stunk for a over a decade. I know that name GM underling, do whatever it takes to get the mighty Mike Tomlin!!!

    It's a dream, but man, if we could swap a 3rd for a 2nd or get a 3rd clear, that would be cool. Like a double-win.
     
  15. Thor

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    The shine's off the apple, as my mom used to say.
     
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  17. Blast Furnace

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    Some will say it’s sour grapes because of how he was handled his last season but he’s not wrong.
     
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  18. Steelersfan43

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  20. Blast Furnace

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    Flood gates are going to open on Tomlin now, blood in the water. For years he has been treated as royalty and with kid gloves, dams breaking.
     
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  21. Rollers

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    Well when you say it like that sure it sounds bad... Oh wait. it is bad. Never mind
     
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  22. Rollers

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    I have no faith in the ownership moving on from Tomlin
     
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  23. Steelersfan43

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  24. Blast Furnace

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    I think Tomlin may want to move on but if he doesnt, I can see Rooneys “retiring” him if calls for him to be fired grow loud enough and starts affecting their bottom line. Been reading on this board and social media there have been a lot of empty seats and also a lot of opposing fans in the stadium.
     
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  25. Steelersfan4life

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    Admittedly, I have been a pessimist regarding the Steelers for years. Part of me doesn't see them firing/retiring him this year, and he will be back. Despite all that pessimism, this does feel different. I will believe it when I see it, but for the first time, I think there's a chance.
     
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