That's the $64,000 dollar ?: Is Shades gonna meddle with Smith and the O? IF Kahn and Rooney have truly turned stones and plan on making a difference - other than allowing Tomlin to have his way - then there is legit hope. Seeing the team broom Kenny, DJ and drafting how they have gives evidence that Tomlin has lost power. We will see week 1 if that holds and the offense is less predictable than the sun rising in the east.
Do you remember the song, zinger?
What proof do have of Tomlin meddling in the offenses over the years? He let Arians, Haley and Fitchner alone as far as I could tell, which brings us to Canada.
Here's a litmus test or early indicator: Does Shades continue to keep first half timeouts in his pocket and let the clock run to shorten the game, or does he try to get points? If we see the usual "let the clock run" instead of taking a TO to force a punt under 90 seconds, then we know he's still playing the same game even if Bill Walsh, Mike Leach, and Air Coryell formed a junta at OC.
Again, hiring Canada was a huge error on Tomlin's part. Probably should have been the final thing that cost him his job. But as far as I can tell, he never interfered with other OCs. With as bad as Canada was, and their QB situation before Rudolph played with some competence, what would have you done?
Unfortunately, that just ONE small example of the neanderthal's thinking.
Shades didn't just hire/promote Canada, he kept him as OC for three f---g years. Indefensible.
Agreed. But you aren't answering the question.
I thought I did: I wouldn't have ever had Canada's weak, sloppy, incompetent *** there for 3 years regardless if he got my son a scholarship at MD.
Tomlin did largley defer to Ben until Canada was promoted. But ever since the short passing game started when teams figured out we weren't going deep after the 11-0 start, other than the Rudolph blip when they had nothing to lose it seemed lilke he embraced and doubled down on trying to shorten games and win 18-16 every week.
I get that. They made a mistake. A big one.
Cooch just flat out makes **** up as he goes along.
Again, I do not disagree with that. But I think the offense was so bad he had to. The QB play before Rudolph forced his hand. It was a hand he created, no doubt. But I think he handled the bad situation he created as well as possible. Please see that as the back handed compliment it is.
no but i remember dolly madison zingers....Do you remember the song, zinger?
I'm beginning to sound like a broken record here. His biggest error was hiring, promoting AND KEEPING Canada has OC. Whatever Shades did next wasn't enough to "adjust" to that colossal failure. And Shades took a personal interest in meeting with Kenny every f---g morning, so his future as a QB coach should be in major jeopardy as well. SO much for all of Tomlin's meeting time with Kenny every day. What a behemoth FAIL.
Looking back, the Trubisky Reclamation project was a huge fail as well. What were they watching when they handed MT the job and later kept him as top backup? Basically, Shades did everything wrong until he had no one to turn to but Rudolph.
The one thing you are is a broken record.
Yea, it sure "doesn't make sense," that's for damn sure. In the preseason, the O was fine, better than fine, Kenny put up perfect QB ratings. Then comes the regular season, and somehow, that same O that was flying fine in the preseason suddenly became predictable and a pile of s----. Somehow. Hmmmmm. And then Canada gets fired and all of a sudden the O picks up radically. Even with the same crap QB. Then Rudolph is added and he directs the team to 3 wins and we make the playoffs, just imagine. But then, with the playoffs upon us, in back comes the scared, "pee-your-pants" O and we can't even make 1st downs any longer. Hmmmm, what happened? No, Tomlin had nothing to do with it, I'm so sure. And he, of course, blamed turnovers, 1st and foremost (not even exaggerating here) on why we lost. Shocker.
So preseason against vanilla defenses should translate over to the regular season? That is a ridiculous claim. Almost as ridiculous as you blaming Tomlin for it.
Slash addressed the first idiocy.
So it's your official position that Shades didn't mess with the offense in any way, no meddling? OKkkkaaaaayyyyyy there hot shot. Sergeant Hulka with the big toe is gonna see how far he can stick it up your @ss.
Stripes!
You mean the mysterious lack of any mid-field passing wasn't mandated by Shades. It "just happened" all by its lonesome? OKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK there.
Idk if it was or wasn't. Neither do you. That's the point. However, using the eye test, what we saw over the years, the Steelers threw over the middle often. If Tomlin was into meddling in the offense, and, according to you he doesn't want to throw over the middle, wouldn't we have seen a lack of throwing over the middle throughout his career?
