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They're saying Tomlin is most overrated coach possible ever. Fact or Fiction?

Discussion in 'Steelers Talk' started by SDOT, May 21, 2021.

  1. mac daddyo

    mac daddyo Well-Known Member

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    anyone can get in. tickets are available on most days at the entrance. :cool:
     
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  2. steelersrule6

    steelersrule6 Well-Known Member

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    If Tomlin retires with a winning percentage close to what it is now, I think he gets in, FWIW he has the most wins among black head coaches.
     
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  3. steel machine

    steel machine Well-Known Member

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    I would think black and white would not and should not matter in HOF voting.
     
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  4. Formerscribe

    Formerscribe Well-Known Member

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    Perhaps not, but it will matter.
     
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  5. steelersrule6

    steelersrule6 Well-Known Member

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    I'm saying don't dismiss that stat, Tony Dungy got in with 1 Super Bowl win, and less wins in his career.
     
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  6. Wardismvp

    Wardismvp Well-Known Member

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    MT is not HOF worthy as of right now, just my opinion.
    Just like you probably won't see LC Greenwood, Dwight White , Hines Ward. Just not HOF .
    and I loved those three players.
     
  7. Roonatic

    Roonatic Well-Known Member

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    Dungy has 2 rings, one as a player.
     
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  8. HeinzMustard

    HeinzMustard Well-Known Member

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    Tony Dungy built 2 Super Bowl Champion teams... the '02 Bucs and the '06 Colts. Tomlin won a Super Bowl with Cowher's players.... like Gruden did with Dungy's players.
     
  9. Disco1981

    Disco1981 Well-Known Member

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    I still think Ward gets in...Or hope so!
     
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  10. strummerfan

    strummerfan Well-Known Member

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    tomlin won a super bowl with an 8-8 team
     
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  11. HeinzMustard

    HeinzMustard Well-Known Member

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    Wrong. Steelers went 10-6 in 2007... the season before they won the Super Bowl in '08.
     
  12. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    Cowhers players that Tomlin inherited went 8-8.
     
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  13. HeinzMustard

    HeinzMustard Well-Known Member

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    The starting QB did a face plant into a windshield... so Cowher had a good excuse for going 8-8. Plus, Roethlisberger had an appendectomy right before the season. Ben never fully recovered that year. Obviously.
     
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  14. S.T.D

    S.T.D Well-Known Member

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    You are correct, but he didn't win a SB with both.
    That's how they will look at it.
    No matter how I feel about it. M.T. will get in unless his career takes a huge nose dive. All you have 2 do it go look at who has got in , who hasn't, and compare.
    Like I said they don't go by what You , I , or anyone else thinks.
    Otherwise I know a few HOF that wouldn't be in there, and a Few that aren't ...that would be.
     
  15. Maddog78

    Maddog78 Well-Known Member

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    Very misleading without context. Ben's accident and injuries played a huge part in them going 8-8 in 2006. That was an amazing roster that had incredible success the two years prior.

    He also took over a team with very good, veteran assistant coaches.
     
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  16. S.T.D

    S.T.D Well-Known Member

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    Now it's an amazing roster. LoL.
    Just a minute ago you argued it was comparable 2 our 2019 roster. On another post. LoL.
    Just F**k** with You:smiley1:
     
  17. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    I was pointing out what Strummer was referring to, Heinz had the record wrong.

    I’ve never bought into that Cowhers player argument, though. It suggests that SB rosters should win all the time when in fact the league is littered with examples of teams that have done poorly the year after a SB as well as never reaching the SB again, more common than not.

    It also suggest you don’t need a coach as long as you have good players. That’s completely false.
     
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  18. HeinzMustard

    HeinzMustard Well-Known Member

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    How did I have the record wrong? Steelers went 8-8 in '06 and 10-6 in '07. Facts.
     
  19. strummerfan

    strummerfan Well-Known Member

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    But but but but but
     
  20. HeinzMustard

    HeinzMustard Well-Known Member

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    It's one helluva "but"
     
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  21. HeinzMustard

    HeinzMustard Well-Known Member

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    I'll re-phrase my response... Tomlin won a Super Bowl in 2008 because he had Cowher's players and Tom Brady blew out his ACL in the first game of the season.

    :smiley1:
     
  22. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    You’re a still not following.

    The argument goes that Tomlin won with Cowhers players, well, Tomlin inherited an 8-8 team.

    As Bill Parcells says, you are what your record says you are.
     
  23. Ray D

    Ray D Staff Member Mod Team

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    Barry Switzer.

    Nuff said. ;)

    (Obviously I'm being a little tongue in cheek here. But come on. Did he have anything to do with Dallas winning another SB? Or was that team just that good? Ok, more tongue in cheek: I see a similarity here too: he also was on the verge of losing the SB to a team that by rights he should have blown out. Sorry. I can't help myself.:roflmao:)
     
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  24. Disco1981

    Disco1981 Well-Known Member

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    Fact
     
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  25. strummerfan

    strummerfan Well-Known Member

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    Ben was cleared to play. As usual just more bs excuses.
     
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