I've been around long enough and I've seen all the dreck. I have never heard anybody call Tomlin an all time great coach. Both sides of this **** find ways to bring up one or the other when Cowher is irrelevant to what is happening now. From where I sit, there is plenty of reason for hope with how some of the players who were acquired after he left are performing. A number of the veterans left over are doing the same. Every team has misses in the draft and a lot make dumb *** reach picks too. We just know more about our own because most of us have lives outside of football.
Both sides make valid points, but in the end all the needless hyperbole kills any real discussion. Some enjoy the dance, I think it's stupid and a waste of time. I'm nobody's apologist, nut hugger, history rewriter or anything else. I call it like I see it and I don't really give a **** which side of the argument my opinion falls on in a given discussion. Nobody here knows how the coaches divvy up responsibility on a given game plan. Now or before.
I know these last two weeks are as good as they've looked in a long *** time and the players are executing. They are certainly more aggressive coming after the QB and attacking on offense. Instead of me worrying about some unknown getting the credit I watch and I'm glad they look like they're figuring the **** out. Barring injuries or a collapse by the OL this team is trouble for everyone they play as long as the players decide to show up and the coaches decide to attack.
I'm not a better fan than anyone else. I'm not always optimistic, there is nothing wrong with trying to break down the team and discuss the things that need work, even when they're winning. But there's no reason to be an assclown to a fan who wants to only see the good, or has a differing opinion either. Not every fan lives and dies with the end result or follows it to the depths that some of us do. Once that fact is remembered a lot of it may stop.
What once made this the best board around was the ability for people to discuss this stuff without following each other around bashing each other in every thread because of a difference of opinion on a given subject. Now it's a bunch of cliques playing the one up told you so game, and it's embarrassing. We've lost a lot of the core members of this board over it, and honestly you can see a good number of what is left will follow suit if something doesn't change. We don't even have trolls like Black Jesus or Danny Crapnifico any more, we have ourselves to chase around and insult.
This is my last time addressing it for myself and from my point of view. I've had a lot of fun here over the last ten years or so, unfortunately I think it's coming to an end for me. I love a good debate and even some good insults from time to time, but the last couple months have been painful. The fault is mine for not figuring out how to just ignore it.
