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A Tomlin special - is ANYBODY surprised by this embarrassing outing?
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High school championships are over. Maybe we can find a local high school coaching staff to come in and take over for the rest of the season. Couldn't be worse.
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How about a fair-catcher caller, getting hit by the captain of the STs unit—————- ? 3- penalties in one game
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Not to be a dick, but sometimes I think you guys don't actually believe that the goal REALLY IS 8+ wins.
Not being sarcastic here. Mike knows if he wins 1 more game this year, (which he will) that he's good and his "Hall of Fame" ticket is punched.
He's honest-to-God not TRYING to win every game. Just 1 more.
Not being sarcastic here. Mike knows if he wins 1 more game this year, (which he will) that he's good and his "Hall of Fame" ticket is punched.
He's honest-to-God not TRYING to win every game. Just 1 more.
With the 17 game season, he'll need 2 more wins, and that maybe a struggle, but you are correct, that is the goal.
Let me add, cynical though it may be, he's hanging on to surpass Noll in total wins as a Steeler coach and needs around 30 more, so he's here for another 4 years at a minimum.
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Nailed it
And by then he will have totally proven he can do less with more than many of us ever anticipated possible
So i get they lost three ILBs in a short time, but honestly you had nobody else ready to get the D situated? That D has looked shaky on communication all season… hell every season since like 2010…
This is all the culmination of ****** coaching
This is all the culmination of ****** coaching
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From my perspective at the game this is almost entirely on player this week. We had every oppurtunity to win this game going away and every turns a player gets a penalty or injured. Now the injuries are no ones fault. The penalties were mostly bad plays by players. The only real coaching issue I question was going for the TD after Kenny got out. With him I was fine with it. Everything about this game was strange. The crowd was just off and their was a weird vibe along with weird weather = and horrible injuries luck.
Tomlin keeps blithering about JV this and that. And I wanna be clear. If I went into their meetings they would be speaking a different language and I would have less than zero credibility with multi million dollar players that said sone observations:
The guy has zero feel. He goes for goal line play on a qb changeover. Lines up shotgun with his slower back and hands to him sidecar. He had almost 5 min to make that decision with injury. If you don't go to the OC "what do you got to get me that yard" and he cant tell you something you believe......take points. Then the opposite. He is down 14 and driving. The play sequence is stupid. He is 4th and 6 and goes fg. Regardless of miss its a dumb call. Go for TD. Either way you need 7s. The worst was putting your generational talent in a game injured where you are done. Don't care what player says. You protect him.
Out of the game. You bring DJ in a room and either he starts pulling the rope with team or he is out. You cannot win with selfish me first players. They kill your culture.
Our program as small and it is successful because of the coaches who want to be a part of it. Tomlin can get no one.
Finally Mike. If you wanna make fun of JV you better realize some of your players were JV. And they learned a hell of a lot more than you give them. I have yet to see a problem.fixed on this team without replacement which shows me Mike and his coaches can't teach.
The guy has zero feel. He goes for goal line play on a qb changeover. Lines up shotgun with his slower back and hands to him sidecar. He had almost 5 min to make that decision with injury. If you don't go to the OC "what do you got to get me that yard" and he cant tell you something you believe......take points. Then the opposite. He is down 14 and driving. The play sequence is stupid. He is 4th and 6 and goes fg. Regardless of miss its a dumb call. Go for TD. Either way you need 7s. The worst was putting your generational talent in a game injured where you are done. Don't care what player says. You protect him.
Out of the game. You bring DJ in a room and either he starts pulling the rope with team or he is out. You cannot win with selfish me first players. They kill your culture.
Our program as small and it is successful because of the coaches who want to be a part of it. Tomlin can get no one.
Finally Mike. If you wanna make fun of JV you better realize some of your players were JV. And they learned a hell of a lot more than you give them. I have yet to see a problem.fixed on this team without replacement which shows me Mike and his coaches can't teach.
Its worse than just he can’t teach…
Players regress here…
Claypool was at his Best his first year here
DJ has progressively gotten less effective here
Virtually every DB regresses here…
Oline too…
We make players worse
Players regress here…
Claypool was at his Best his first year here
DJ has progressively gotten less effective here
Virtually every DB regresses here…
Oline too…
We make players worse
The number one thing you have to be able to do at this level is attract and pay quality assistant coaches. All the money is in Mike's pocket and he teaches and is responsible for very little in game. What he is responsible for is not very good. His staff is a bargain bin of nobody's. No one wants to be here because uts a dead end.
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Dotson is a great example of that.
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I would even look at minkah. His first year he came over and made all kinds of plays. Once he learned the system he has regressed. Now he is still a great player, but i still think we made him worse
I think the last time I looked at the steelers staff I thought there were maybe five or six good guys worth a damn…
I think Grady Brown is probably going to be a DC one day.
I think Karl Dunbar is a fine DL coach
I think you can see how good Eddie Faulkner has been reflecting in the RBs
I really like year 1 of Aaron Curry with ILB
I can’t argue with Denzel Martin OLB
Id like some better TE blocking development from Alfonzo Jackson, but he seems ok too
Im absolutely not sold on Pat Meyers yet..
Same with Frisman Jackson or Mike Sullivan…
Austin can eat a dick
And so can Bubbles..
Not one of the other guys sticks out bad or good for me, but their roles are mostly minute anyway
He is still the same player, it is the scheme that has taken away his "splash" plays. We don't let him play Centerfield where he has the opportunity to read and react. I don't know if our players get worse so much as the scheme, formation, play calls don't maximize their talents.
Dunbar and Faulkner are good career assistants. If anyone makes a forward move to coordinator or coordinator to HC it will be first as far as I know.
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Exactly. And I'm sure it's well known around the league that when the time comes you will be the scapegoat for Tomlin. That's why no one that's any good(except for Haley=family team connection) wants to coach here. They would have to offer them a whole lot of money and that collides with the Steeler way of being cheap with coaches. It's a lose lose situation till Tomlin packs his bags.
All I hear is that Tomlin would be hired in seconds if we fired him, teams would fire their current coach to hire him, well then trade him if he's that popular and teams want him that bad.
Unfortunately, what's going to happen is we looked like dogshit yesterday and lost our starting QB, we play a **** schedule with no QB's, so we'll luck out at least 2 wins, back into the playoffs and the national media will be all over Tomlin about how great he's done with this team to get them to the playoffs and some dipshits will actually give him a vote or 2 for coach of the year.
Hell they're talking about getting rid of Belicheat in NE, they've won 2 Super Bowls and lost another since the last time we just won a playoff game.
Unfortunately, what's going to happen is we looked like dogshit yesterday and lost our starting QB, we play a **** schedule with no QB's, so we'll luck out at least 2 wins, back into the playoffs and the national media will be all over Tomlin about how great he's done with this team to get them to the playoffs and some dipshits will actually give him a vote or 2 for coach of the year.
Hell they're talking about getting rid of Belicheat in NE, they've won 2 Super Bowls and lost another since the last time we just won a playoff game.
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I'm sticking to my 9-8 prediction I made in July.
The only thing left to do is unleash hell.
Watch it unfold Thursday night.
Just like it did the last time Tomlin spoke those words.
It did didn't it?
Watch it unfold Thursday night.
Just like it did the last time Tomlin spoke those words.
It did didn't it?
It must've he's still here 14 seasons later
That could be true. I think bigger piece is no one advances.
Horton did it iirc… to coordinator I mean… and technically Flores did too… though that gets an asterisk… a couple of his assistants ended up as college HC’s… but only Arians became a nfl HC… and he definitely gets an asterisk
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