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Coach Tomlin Gives Powerful Message

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The Pittsburgh Steelers had mostly been quiet on the racial injustices, and on going battles across the United States, but that changed prior to practice on Friday. Follow along with Steelers.com reporter Teresa Varley as she tweets along with Coach Tomlin. Coach Mike Tomlin opens @steelers practice addressing everyone watching online while players stood together […]

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Imagine that, something leval headed and peAceful. More unity shown in their 1/2hr (guessing more or less) than months of other's protests.

AGAIN,........stay the course (thanks slash as I had a best friends mom always say this)





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steel dino said:
The organization is fortunate to have Coach Tomlin as it leader of young men.
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Meh. I'm tired of his cliche quotes and his mediocre coaching. Can we do better? Maybe. Can we do worse? Maybe. It is what it is. Sometimes it better if the coach and team move on from each other. Example...Eagles. They both went on to win the big one.
 
stillwright said:
Meh. I'm tired of his cliche quotes and his mediocre coaching. Can we do better? Maybe. Can we do worse? Maybe. It is what it is. Sometimes it better if the coach and team move on from each other. Example...Eagles. They both went on to win the big one.
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Right now I think SBWCMVLT's window is tied directly to BEN's window. He (Coach Tomlin) is doing all the right things and a SB win can extend his window dramaticly .





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Coach Cool Shades has ALWAYS been a great TALKER. Where he is less effective is actually preparing his team to succeed. Not completely inept, just a bit better than average. We all know this is his shortcoming, but since we have no power to address it, we get to accept it.
 
I think he is a good coach just not necessarily a great coach. As been said here and there is he is the type that can succeed with the right amount of X and O assistant coaches. I think they somewhat have that. Randy is a big question mark to this way of thinking. But perhaps he has enough help to keep him from sinking. Now here is the tricky part. BigBen has to play smart football. He has the skills to play a high short to intermediate game. He shouldn't be constantly pushing the ball down the field. For one he doesn't really want to constantly roll the dice with his arm. Secondly less interceptions will equate to better drive completions. Whether that is TDs or FGs. Thirdly the approach can lead to a more balanced run/pass attack. Pass to set up the run and be efficient at it. In the process you could be saving that arm for a playoff game and better yet a playoff run.


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Coach T did a remarkable job last year considering who he slinging the ball, not to say that was his and Colbert's doing not bringing anyone in when Ben when down, but that's hindsight now. The D was stellar and kept them in most games until the late season collapse.
I want to see how he handles the team this year with more weapons on O and a healthier Ben. Coach has always been pretty good at having his team unified in their stance. Even the Chicago-tunnel-game, they had a plan as one unit.
 
I always had high hopes for Tomlin. I have not been so keen on him for the past 5 years or so though. I hope he can pull it together but overconfidence, lack of game planning, poor clock/time management and AB mismanagement have certainly brought my hopes down to earth. Let's see what he can do with this year's team. I feel Canada was a great coaching add. I hope he accepts the new approaches that have to come from this addition.
 
Tomlin is an underachiever relative to the talent the Steelers have. The last two seasons will show that and the numerous losses to sub .500 teams will show that as well at well. This could be his last season. I'd be happy to see him go and switch to politics.
 
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Tomlin is an underachiever relative to the talent the Steelers have. The last two seasons will show that and the numerous losses to sub .500 teams will show that as well at well. This could be his last season. I'd be happy to see him go and switch to politics.
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3 playoff wins in 9 years with Generational Talent at the heart of those 9 years.

Chuck Noll won 2 playoff games his last 9 years with guys like Frank Pollard, Weegie Thompson, Dwight Stone, Merril Hoge, Bubby Brister, and Mark Malone.

Tomlin is lucky to still have a job and that the Rooneys give contracts for life/decides to retire.

You're right, politics would be his more natural habitat.
 
Coach said:
Tomlin is an underachiever relative to the talent the Steelers have. The last two seasons will show that and the numerous losses to sub .500 teams will show that as well at well. This could be his last season. I'd be happy to see him go and switch to politics.
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Tomlin has never had a team quit on him. Last year there may be 3 people alive that would have been able to weather that storm with that many serious injuries. Ravens couldn't when it happened to them.

Also the only coach to keep a cap on AB and get him to produce. Not even the great Bellicheck could do that.
 
SojournerSteel said:
3 playoff wins in 9 years with Generational Talent at the heart of those 9 years.

Chuck Noll won 2 playoff games his last 9 years with guys like Frank Pollard, Weegie Thompson, Dwight Stone, Merril Hoge, Bubby Brister, and Mark Malone.

Tomlin is lucky to still have a job and that the Rooneys give contracts for life/decides to retire.

You're right, politics would be his more natural habitat.
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You mean Noll won those playoff games with guys like Gary Anderson, Hoge, Tunch, Dawson, Jackson, Lake, Little, Lipps, Lloyd, Mularkey, Olsavsky, Woodroof and Wolfly? Plenty of talent on those 80's teams when all it took was defense and a running game to win games.

Not even including Woodson, Green, Everett, Haslerig, Hinkle, O'Donnell, Strzelczyk and Williams. You know the core he cultivated for Cowher's early success.
 
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You mean Noll won those playoff games with guys like Gary Anderson, Hoge, Tunch, Dawson, Jackson, Lake, Little, Lipps, Lloyd, Mularkey, Olsavsky, Woodroof and Wolfly? Plenty of talent on those 80's teams when all it took was defense and a running game to win games.

Not even including Woodson, Green, Everett, Haslerig, Hinkle, O'Donnell, Strzelczyk and Williams. You know the core he cultivated for Cowher's early success.
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He went into Denver Mile High 1984 and won with those guys?? Not with all of them, IIR. You're conflating a lot of the late '80s young talent with the whole era.

Noll got to an AFCCG against Dan Marino with Mark Malone under center.

He beat Joe Montana's 18-1 SF 49ers in Candlestick that same year. It may have been a "defense and running game" league, but Noll got to the Final Four that included Montana and a 55 TD-throwing Marino that season. Noll had no business being there with the talent on the roster -- much less beating John Elway in Denver to get there.

But getting back to Tomlin, 3 playoff wins in the last 9 years is underachieving no matter how we slice it.

When Tomlin "overachieves," we get a hollow 8-8 and yet another "he never had a losing season" Consolation Prize.
 
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I'm no great fan of Tomlin's endless sound bites, but THIS is a very good response to the kneeling / patriotic vs chaotic argument...

We committed to taking action and being part of the solution. It is our desire to be active participants in the formation of a more perfect union.
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wig said:
I'm no great fan of Tomlin's endless sound bites, but THIS is a very good response to the kneeling / patriotic vs chaotic argument...
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I'll give him credit and a backhanded compliment even in that he's a better politician than 99% of the the politicians these days..

I'm not exactly sure what he meant or how that will look in practice, but it did sound pretty good.

Like Joe Flacco said about Ray Ray's pregame speeches, "I'm not sure exactly what he's saying...but it gets us fired up" or to that effect.
 
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