I knew it was over when the Steelers conceded a touchdown on the Ravens first drive and failed to score on their own first two drives.
Scheme played a bigger role on our D not getting off of the field than age. If we are long in the tooth and fatigue plays that big of a role....then all the more reason not to play the bend but don't break defense that Tomlin seems to love.
Because he's good enough to get a team to the SB that's why. He's done it twice. The problem is this:
He and Rooney fell into the trap of doing what's "comfortable' instead of what's best for the team. That's led to a team that's not competitive enough. They keep "buddies" around as coaches, pay them cheaply and nothing changes. But hey, Rooney didn't have to do any of those "uncomfortable" things like bring in a new coach, something he's on record on not liking. But as long as he's not uncomfortable.
I wasn't blaming age, just answering the question. The area that brings our average age UP is the DL, that's where we need to infuse talent and youth. Scheme is 100% the biggest issue, and not just this last game, but all year long. We got lucky with TO's against bad teams and it masked the issues that have always been there with a Tomlin lead D. For most of the year, they were solid in the redzone, but during the 5 game slide, they were atrocious. You just knew if the team got anywhere inside the 10 it was a guaranteed TD.
He took a team he didn't build to the SB twice. Since then, he's built teams that had the talent, but always fell short. And then Ben retired and it just got worse. He's worked with two GM's, and the roster looks pretty much the same. We have talent, what we don't have is a coach that will put the talent in the best situation to win. We have big road grader type OL, and try to run a zone block finesse type of scheme that doesn't fit. We draft man cover corners and run a majority zone. We drafted a catch first TE and then extended him, only to give him 4 targets a game.
I don't think I agree with this at all. What teams are you referring to in what season? Aside from the team that lost to the Jaguars I haven't seen that. I've always thought he overachieved with a majority of the teams and other teams were not balanced enough. Maybe they had the talent on the offensive side of the ball, but the talent on the defensive side of the ball was lacking and vice versa.
So there was a team worse than Tomlin’s defense?
He’s done less with more and constantly been praised for his mediocre results.
2016 - coincidentally the last time they even won a playoff game,
2017 is a non issue.
I understand you dont like Tomlin. Some of us do. If you think making innuendo remarks helps you to get your point across because you feel a comment I made which was in no way personal weakens your argument then that's on you. You made your point. I made mine but I kept my comments above grade. I've tried to keep the conversation civil because I know once it goes there there's no going back. Not to mention you haven't come off as a dck until now.
My apologies, I got you and timesarechanging mixed up. He was the one who talked like that.
I agree whole heartedly about the coordinators. He's never had success picking coordinators and I have no idea why? People have said it's because he wants yes men under him. I thought initially it was because they wanted all the hires internal, because they werent willing to pay, but another person showed on here that Tomlin has had the means to do outside hires. I don't know what to believe at this point other then he's very bad at it....regardless of whether the hire is internal or external.