The lethal combination of Tomlin and Rooney

For me things can only get better. If McCarthy does well and wins playoff games it’s a huge accomplishment and step in the right direction. If we don’t win a playoff game it’s the same as having MT here because he hasn’t won one in a decade. So for me there is only possible upside. I couldn’t care less about 10 wins and a 30 point WC loss vs winning 6 or 7 games and not making the playoffs. Both results equally suck.

 

Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin holds a career NFL playoff record of 8-12 (.400 winning percentage). Most of those wins came early in his tenure using players he inherited from Bill Cowher. He also relied on coordinators he didn’t hire, including Bruce Arians and Dick Lebeau to win the vast majority of his playoff games. When they left, we were essentaily done winning playoff games.

An 8-12 playoff record is simply not good enough. Among all Hall of Fame coaches (a group Tomlin is not, and should not, be part of), a .400 playoff winning percentage would rank dead last on the totem pole.