Because most of us here, have been here longer than 5 minutes. In case you didn’t notice, all Tomlin does is TALK, continuously talks, but doesn’t actually change anything long term. Sure he makes changes when forced to, then reverts right back to his same ****.
You’re going to have to change teams to see that, at least until Tomlin chooses he is done.
There have been excuses for him since he took over, but since it is really Tomlin calling the shots, maybe it isn’t Austin
Young and innovative, WITH EXPERIENCE
The playoff game plan was almost EXACTLY the same as run under Canada, wonder whose plan it was all along.
In the regular season you get various levels of offensive comptence. In the playoffs you almost always get the best offensive competence, especially when you are backing into the playoffs as a low seed Every time.
Just because they aren’t committing publicly, doesn’t mean they haven’t decided.
At least you then have you answer.
so you're saying he's a shoe-in
And can understand how endzone tosses to big TEs and WRs like 88, 80 and 14 can reduce TO risk, like every other team ....
And attacking rookie replacements to stud corners who go out injured. And play action when the opponent puts 8 or more in the box, or deception plays, or not always running the same play from the one unique formation it is always run in, or exploiting weaknesses, or . . . .
In theory, yes. In practice, Austin has little to indicate that he is the man for this task, especially given his inability (or was it Tomlin?) to successfully recover from those ILB losses this season.
Hold on there until we check other coaches around Tomlin's boy.
I am not sure what exactly more could have been done. Honestly we give coaches sometimes too much credit and too much blame for things. Short of miraculously making a new prototypical MLB out of thin air they seemed to do the best they could with the turd sandwich they were given. For once they addressed the position fairly well in the offseason but you can't predict the multitude of injuries all at one position yet again. I don't think Austin is anything special but I don't think he is terrible. If I don't get to replace both I m picking OC over DC right now. Some continuity isn't all bad. If they choose to replace him I am also fine with that I just wouldn't put money on it.
The gaping middle is likely more a product of failure to adequately address MLB and coupled with a huge injury rash. The league seems to undervalue the position.
I don't know, the Pats offense was worse than ours for most of the year. The Pats are lacking skill players, but Mac Jones was terrible. Not sure if it was Obrien or BB, but i think i would pass on Obrien
I think scheme does not help with the middle. Our ends / DTs used to eat up blockers and let the LBs tackle. I don't think we have that any more. Plus our edge rushers don't hold the edge anymore. As great as TJ is he runs right by alot of things. He is a game wrecker when he gets to the QB, but when he can't he is almost a liability in the run game.
We’ve been getting burned up the middle by TE since Brady came into the league
Obviously a huge problem that has existed for decades!!!
The Union which is predominantly players with less than 5 years experience saw the owners proposals regarding the $$ pie. Player team reps which are usually vested veterans with 8-10 years tried to advise all of these young players not just to look at the dollar signs, because the CBA as it was negotiated could possibly REDUCE their longevity in the league. Kevin Mawae before he retired really stressed that to all the young players. But as expected the young guys saw how much more money they would get from the new network/streaming agreement the League had made. As expected nowadays, the youth wants immediate satisfaction instead of long term security.
Tomlin has made it clear that his biggest goal is not giving up the splash. Watching them closely this year they play a lot of man with over top help. But the over top can be spread or two deep which means you have a LB nothing like Shazier running with a TE, rb or slot.We’ve been getting burned up the middle by TE since Brady came into the league
The Holcomb/Alexander/Roberts was doing a fine job until losing Holcomb and Alexander for the season in consecutive weeks. Roberts a gamer against the run for sure, but he was playing with one arm for several weeks. Those last several weeks coaches only had 4th string and off the FA pile to work with. Had Minkah not been hurt, going to the Big 3 Safety look probably would have helped tremendously in covering TEs. The ILB room needs another Shazier type player and we really haven’t seen one like him (except maybe Parsons, Shaq Leonard, and Bobby Wagner) since Ryan got injured. I don’t even know if there is anyone available this draft with bonafide 3/4 ILB pedigree. But getting someone with that type of skill set would help in a long way. Especially with DL we have now.
My choices, looking at who’s available, are
It’s a start, the question now is will Rooney insist on the best candidate available and mandate he have a good degree of autonomy on philosophy/play calling or will Tomlin be allowed to hire another unqualified person Tomlin has a personal relationship and can control to run the same conservative crap we’ve been seeing the last few years