Head Coach Rankings

He is the definition of average or OK. Not a good enough coach to compete anymore (After the core retired) but not a bad enough coach to bottom out and rebuild. So we are stuck in the middle every Fing Year!

 

Obviously, the Rooneys are OK with the culture of mediocrity that Tomlin has established.

 

Agree
I don't understand the discrediting "non losing seasons" either and calling it "BS" doesn't make any sense either.
They guy fields a winning team, year in and year out.
I don't think they have a metric for "not able to win playoff games"
In fact I'd wager that is a coach fielded a team that went 17-0 but didn't win a single playoff game they would be a first round HOF ballot.
The Franchise may fire that coach but that is a totally different issue.

 

With his current resume, I believe he will make the HOF, but I don't think his current resume deserves it. The non-losing seasons thing is certainly impressive because it alludes to having success in multiple areas. Yes, he inherited a good team.... but he also helped build an entirely different good team later through drafting (which the HC has a good amount of influence on). The teams of the mid-late 2010's are completely different than the SB teams of the late 2000's. The team now is way different than the 2010's teams. We've built quality teams (each level of quality is less, but still quality nonetheless) in 3 different decades. That is irrefutable.

However, the overall lack of postseason success and fact that the majority of his success comes from his first 5 years in the league makes him not HOF for me. Had a great short run, but has been just ok since then. Look at the most recent HC's put into the HOF....

name - win % - SB
Bill Cowher - .623 regular season, .571 postseason, 1 SB win
Tony Dungy - .668 regular season, .474 postseason, 1 SB win
Jimmy Johnson - .556 regular season, .692 postseason, 2 SB win

Tomlin - .630 regular season, .421 postseason, 1 SB win

He is near the top as a regular season performer, but the worst postseason performer. This is extra concerning considering how well his career started in post season percentage. That means the last decade we've done a TON of losing in the playoffs. Though, I will say, Marv Levy is a HOF coach and he has a worse regular season % than Tomlin and no SB (despite having a better overall post season record). It wouldn't surprise me to see him get in, I just don't consider him a "top coach". The luster of considering Tomlin a high end coach is wearing off, and while he had a really great short run, he's been overwhelmingly average (well, slightly above average) for the majority of his career. Good coach overall. He won a SB. Can't take that away from him. Likely a HOF'er despite my contention that I don't see him that way.

 

Because some people can't see outside of certain things. Nobody, with any honesty, can tell me winning seasons don't matter, and they are easy to do. Anyone with a thimble of sense knows that if it was easy to do, all the HCs would do it. Also I have yet to see one person show me a HC, that has been to two SBs, (I notice a lot of people like to leave that off),and never had a losing season, that has been fired.
Now if He got fired tomorrow, I would root just as hard for his replacement, but to think any HC with his resume is not going to the HOF ,is just the same hate as people that think Ben Roethlisberger, with his resume is not going. It's laughable.

 

Last I checked you're not on the hall of fame committee

 

Tomlin's mom donated an egg that was injected with both Barry Switzer and Marty Schottenheimer sperms... somehow, exactly half of each sperm fertilized the egg.

The result makes over $10M per year and will go into the NFL HOF. Amazing luck.