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The Mike Tomlin (and general coaching) Complaint Thread

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

  1. Wardismvp

    Wardismvp Well-Known Member

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    I am afraid they do suck, the whole staff. Isn’t one coach or area that stands out. Should be a clean sweep.
     
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  2. Michael E

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    AMEN!

    I liked Southern Cross, by Crosby, Stills and Nash, but they're complete idiots and want everyone to know it politically (hard, far left, not sensible left/center/right).

    Video on youtube of some fans coming out of the concert pissed off. Why can't entertainers shut their knowledge-lacking pie-holes and just do what their fans are paying money to see/hear?

    Hard right or left, doesn't matter, keep for interviews, but don't bring it up during your event please. The f'ing arrogance, thinking EVERYONE agrees with them and wants to hear their jibberish.
     
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  3. OB1

    OB1 Well-Known Member

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    Agreed. being that bad and making 10s of millions per year is unnaturally good.
     
  4. Steelersfan43

    Steelersfan43 Well-Known Member

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  5. CanadianSteel

    CanadianSteel Well-Known Member

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    As if I wasn’t depressed enough….
     
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  6. steelersrule6

    steelersrule6 Well-Known Member

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  7. Steelersfan43

    Steelersfan43 Well-Known Member

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  8. Bubbahotep

    Bubbahotep Well-Known Member

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    Sorry but I need to correct you on your comment.

    It's not easy coaching a team to be 10-7 year after year. For a normal team you would expect the occasional overshoot to 11-6 or 12-5, or an undershoot to 8-9 or 7-10.

    :taunt:
     
  9. Thor

    Thor Staff Member Mod Team

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    Well, maybe he called more back when Butler was here?

    Anyway, I don't care who's calling them, it's an ineffective scheme. Green Bay runs a lot of 11-p with the TE running a route. So to be fair, only six rushers would be considered a blitz. The problem was the blitzes were ineffective at pressuring Love, and our five pass defenders couldn't keep coverage on their four receivers - given that, I don't know that it would have helped to drop eight in coverage.

    Bottom line is we have some aging guys who may no longer be elite, but are still good enough to form a better unit than what we've put out there. If it's Austin, he shouldn't have been retained. This isn't a first under his watch.
     
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  10. biggbunch68

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    If Tomlin says it , it must be true lol
     
  11. Vox Ferrum

    Vox Ferrum Well-Known Member

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    Inside season, if he took over it might be worse.
     
  12. ljkjr74

    ljkjr74 Well-Known Member

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    With most of the posts that I am reading. But none of them are solutions to the problems this team is having. The one and only way to get head offices and HC plus coaching staff is to keep the home stadium empty. If you don’t do that all our posts will be in vane. And I know that is not going to happen. So why post ?? Frustrating
     
  13. AtlSteel

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    He says he's largely pleased with Austin, but isn't happy where they are right now, so they're just going to keep working. Rooney! Not only does this guy not see the obvious problem that everyone else sees, but he is pleased with Austin. His solution is to do more of it. You have to let Tomlin go. This is ridiculous.
     
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  14. TGH

    TGH Well-Known Member

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    Please for three quarters, but that fourth quarter will get them fired.
     
  15. Animus

    Animus Well-Known Member

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    My Solution:

    Hire a young HC and bring in an entire new staff. Cater scouting to new philosophy of the coach.

    Identify the core of the defense and build around that defense, preferably in the draft. Dead cap sucks, but we'll have to eat it. As for the offense, I think it's on the right track. It just needs a ZWR, a QB and a RG(Anderson may be an internal option here).

    Life may suck for a season or two, but the Patriots proven that rebuilds can be quick.
     
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  16. Thor

    Thor Staff Member Mod Team

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    This is all one needs to see to show Tomlin the door, and wish him the best in his future endeavors:

    After the Pittsburgh Steelers surrendered at least 30 points for the fourth time in seven games, coach Mike Tomlin defended defensive coordinator Teryl Austin on Tuesday.

    Not only did Pittsburgh allow a season-high 360 passing yards, three touchdown strikes and a streak of 20 consecutive completions from Packers quarterback Jordan Love on Sunday, but four consecutive quarterbacks -- Love, Joe Flacco, Dillon Gabriel and Carson Wentz -- have produced season-high yardage totals against the Steelers.

    "I've known Teryl a long time," Tomlin said. "He's very capable. He's very thorough. I've largely been pleased with his work, but certainly he and I are not pleased with where we are right now from a defensive unit perspective, and so we're just going to keep working."

    Tomlin also said he's not taking over sole defensive playcalling duties after the 35-25 loss to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night.

    "That's not on the table as we sit here today," Tomlin said. "We just got to keep doing what we're doing and do it better."

    I don't think I've ever seen the coach of a team that's truly serious about competing for a championship, and has put the kind of pieces in place this one has, be able to talk about failure for as long as this guy has. His lines - we aren't going to make excuses, we've got to do better, etc. - it's all hat and no cattle . He hasn't shown the ability to make transformative changes in over eight years. He's hit his ceiling.
     
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  17. Steelersfan43

    Steelersfan43 Well-Known Member

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  18. Steel_Elvis

    Steel_Elvis Staff Member Mod Team

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    It’s because he’s not held accountable to achieve anything better than average.
     
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  19. Thor

    Thor Staff Member Mod Team

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    I'm as frustrated with ownership as with anyone on the coaching staff. The extensions-in-advance should have stopped a while ago.
     
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  20. OB1

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    My solution to the problem is to just not have/want/desire any hope for SBs now or in the next 5 years. I just get happy/sad on a given sunday if they win or lose.

    That way, the deep rooted issues that cannot be solved don't cause any frustration for me anymore. I am just happy if I get to gloat on Mondays at work. If not, oh well, it all resets every single week.

    It's a great feeling, in fact, to accept being hopeless! I guess that's how Browns fans cope with their fortunes for so long.
     
  21. 86WardsWay

    86WardsWay Well-Known Member

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    There will never be an empty Steelers stadium nor should there be. It’s a great revenue generator for the city. The Steelers get money no matter what from the NFL agreement with television contracts. In case no one has noticed the Steelers are on National TV 85% of the time. What needs to happen is for the Rooneys to grow tired of accepting mediocrity and grow a pair to tell their coach that they are going in a new direction and wish him the best.
     
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  22. Thor

    Thor Staff Member Mod Team

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    At the risk of this taking on enough mass to generate its own gravitational force and start sucking in the rest of the internet, I'm consolidating the Tomlin and general coaching complaint threads here (I'll deal with specifics like Teryl Austin at another time) to clean things up and avoid redundancy.

    Please direct future MT gripes here. There will be many. But together, we shall persevere. ;)

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  23. freakfontana

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    This is our Moron ... well ... their !
     
  24. DJ18Baller

    DJ18Baller Well-Known Member

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    The Mike Tomlin sucks thread! I’ve been pining for this since 2017.
     
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  25. Steelersfan43

    Steelersfan43 Well-Known Member

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