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Great (long) article.
The Steelers have a serious problem with head coach Mike Tomlin
The Steelers have a serious problem with head coach Mike Tomlin
by Michelle Kotts2 minutes ago Follow @kottsmichelle
The Steelers 2022 season seems like a train wreck, one which someone has filmed in slow motion, and it does not seem poised to get much better anytime soon.
There is no lack of blame for potential causes. Matt Canada’s play calling is simply horrible, and you could see the look of angst on his face late in the 4th quarter of the Bills game. Some people want to blame the offensive line too. There is a degree of truth to the offensive line’s struggles, but keep in mind the offensive line didn’t give up 38 points and 552 total yards either.
Others will undoubtedly blame the fact that T.J. Watt has missed four games, as to why the Steelers lost. If that is true, you must ask why there is not more talent around him so that in the event of his absence the team should be able to still win. In the 70s, if Joe Greene missed a game, it didn’t mean doom and gloom. Heck injuries have decimated the Steelers defense, but even then, the defense was still reasonably healthy until the Jets’ game.
The point is that all of these play a role in the Steelers season going sideways. It’s not like suddenly, at the start of 2022, they just became a bad team. They have slowly drifted that way for quite a while. Yet one question needs to be asked. How did the Steelers get to this position? Well, the simple truth is that this is a Mike Tomlin problem.
After watching the Bills pound the Steelers it became clear that the team’s journey to get to this spot and to have their worst beating since 1988 culminated at the hands of poor decision-making over Tomlin’s tenure. This treatise is not an indictment that the Steelers need to fire Tomlin at the end of the season but rather that the Rooneys need to put Tomlin on notice that what he has done is not working.
Tomlin’s winning season streak is totally meaningless
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