One other thing they may have been trying to do is get a guy they could mold into the coach they wanted. Tomlin's resume was thin and if one looks objectively still is. He might have had potential in the eyes of the Rooneys. They had an ideal situation to try the experiment ( no not the minority coach experiment ) the untried and undeveloped coach. He might have had additional appeal because of minority status or might not. They set him in place with a team one season from the super bowl a staff of experienced coaches that could groom him and help him develop. Right now there are three former head coaches on this team, plus MT. Last week he looked like he was finally starting to get it, this week he had that wtf look on his face as did most of the rest of the team. They have had a history of being unprepared on a short week and MT is continuing with no sign of improving.
The only things in his defense are the facts he did not fumble, throw behind receivers, get knocked on his back, forget to tackle, make bad calls from the officials possible and play with no energy or purpose. I am sure he had a hand in picking these guys and many of them are not good and some are bad. For example Jarvis Jones is improving, I saw three or four decent plays from him. He has now gone from god awful to just bad. Gilbert looked like an upside down turtle on the field after Dumerville dumped him and sacked ben. Lots more in the same venue to talk about. It brings back that old joke about execution "yeah that's a good idea but do you think we could get away with it?" It is fitting that ***** slapping was the topic with the ravens on thursday cause thats what they did to the steelers on Thursday.
