I like tomlin, but I would like him better if he were coaching a different team, a team he could put his own stamp on. That will never happen here. The Steelers feel like a mom n pop business struggling to compete. Just when they figure out how to compete with the Walmart’s and Costco’s here comes an Amazon.com. When they didn’t sign Bell to a “fair” contract, they blew any chance of Ben taking this team to another Super Bowl. It was stupid, stubborn, bullshit, the kind of thing you see in bush league management. Instead of embracing change and trailblazing a new path foreword, they responded like they were being dragged over concrete.
For what it’s worth Tomlin, Haley and Bell changed the game of football for awhile, reenergizing the running back position. While other teams were sending “packages” in and out of the game as were defenses, the Steelers used a fast break“ no huddle offense with the 6-1 240 Bell toggling in and out of the backfield, matching him up against smaller dbs and slower linebackers. The Steelers killed the Nfl Defenses that tried to stop them. Haley, an understudy to Bill Parcels, was taught to be always be trying to create or utilize a mismatch. By utilizing a running back as a out wide by motioning him into multiple receiver sets, made the offense more flexible. But because “nfl doesn’t runnings backs what number 2 receivers get” Bell held out and the rest is history, it was over before it really started.
You know, who gives a flying *** whoses being paid what? Does anyone care? Does anyone stop to ask when they are hoisting another Lombardi? The Steelers didn’t have a 2nd receiver because they kept leaving to get paid! The coaching staff figured out a great workaround and Bell was talented enough to carry if off. But instead of reward what did Haley and Bell get? Fired! Haley is completely out of football and Bell might as well be. And Tomlin was left to clean up the mess, the AB bs, the offense falling apart, the defense that the Chiefs qb said was like playing 7on7 drills against. And the mess we find ourselves in today. We should be cleaning house. should have got another Super Bowl trophy, and Be cLeaning house moving on to the non 100m dollar qb era. instead we are hanging on to the faint hope Ben might take us to another. So fukin typical Steelers!
Instead of signing Tomlin again, Art Rooney needs to be passing control of this team to on another family member more capable in the dealing with change in this modern ara where “thinking out of the box“ is rewarded not punished and a modern coaching staff that can deal with constant changing roaster due to free agency. You have to be able to see these rosters changes as an opportunity not the end of the world. A staff that doesnt need a 100m qb to be 8-8 or a defense that doesn’t fall apart if an equally expensive blitzend go’s down. Steelers are the worst spenders of money in term of returns. There is nothing fun about being Steeler fan Anymore. Watching the late season meltdown and browns beatdown was only worse than watching the season before, which was like watching the ugly jacksonville beatdown right after watching the horrible New England game where gronkowski schooled us for the uptinth time that we can’t defend a tightend! This is stupid. It’s time For change! but instead, art just signed us up for 3 more years. Good lord...
