Game Balls, Game Goats & FU's...........Week 1 @ Atlanta

[madinsomniac]

Most coaches have the most success early in their time with a team. This is because teams in all sports typically look for a replacement coach that is strong in an area they are lacking or has a different approach to things, and for a short while their innovations dovetail with the established stuff that already works...

Over time, though, the league adapts to the new coach's strategies, the coach reforms the team how he wants, and new holes form in his weak spots ... coaches have expiration dates...

Its very rare for a coach to be in a position for 10 plus years and able to have top end success... Cowher was an outlier. And that probably had more to do with adding Ben to his power run game as the league was adjusting to new passing concepts..

Tomlin deserves credit for his two super bowl appearances, but history says he is past his expiration time here and wont likely win again. Maybe he bucks things like Cowher did... but more likely he would have to go elsewhere like Reid did to reboot his career..

 

[Steeltime]

Cowher failed to win with this team the year prior

Do you understand?

Cowher didn’t do **** with this team the prior year

TOMLIN WON IT. HE WON REMEMBER?

He didn’t inherit **** but a losing team from the year before the coward couldn’t do **** with

Do you understand Tomlin won the Super Bowl?

Go check, Wikipedia

For the love of God, Tomlin lost his first playoff game, did not win the SB the year after Cowher's team went 8-8, possibly due to their franchise QB going face-first into a windshield, then having an appendectomy, and getting exactly zero practice before the season started. Check Wikipedia yourself.

Also, with Ben at QB in three seasons, Cowher was 34-14 regular season, 5-1 playoffs, with a SB win.

Tomlin is Barry Switzer II.

 

[Confluence]

Plus Cowher some some family **** happening that last season.
Difficult to understand a Steeler fan ******** on him for that. Disappointing, yes.
Understandable, yes.

 

[BLITZ]

For the love of God, Tomlin lost his first playoff game, did not win the SB the year after Cowher's team went 8-8, possibly due to their franchise QB going face-first into a windshield, then having an appendectomy, and getting exactly zero practice before the season started. Check Wikipedia yourself.

Also, with Ben at QB in three seasons, Cowher was 34-14 regular season, 5-1 playoffs, with a SB win.

Tomlin is Barry Switzer II.

with more staying power

 

[Litos]

Looks like he had his team ready to play opening day. What more do you freaking want, bro?

Finally

 

[Ike Kelly]

For the love of God, Tomlin lost his first playoff game, did not win the SB the year after Cowher's team went 8-8, possibly due to their franchise QB going face-first into a windshield, then having an appendectomy, and getting exactly zero practice before the season started. Check Wikipedia yourself.

Also, with Ben at QB in three seasons, Cowher was 34-14 regular season, 5-1 playoffs, with a SB win.

Tomlin is Barry Switzer II.

with more staying power

Significantly more staying power. Switzer 2.0? Hardly, he needed just 14 more years to being considered a postscript.

 

[Stryker]

The only comparison you can make about Cowher and Tomlin:

They are BOTH HOF Coaches.

 

[BLITZ]

The only comparison you can make about Cowher and Tomlin:

They are BOTH HOF Coaches.

and they were conservative, built their teams around defense, and the fans turned on them

 

[SteveA]

The question wasn’t direct at you SteveA.

OK, cool..

 

[SteveA]

The only comparison you can make about Cowher and Tomlin:

They are BOTH HOF Coaches

A ************ that gets it…