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Is Mike Tomlin to blame for “The Status Quo”

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By: Bill Washinski SteelerNation.com   Last Wednesday, Pittsburgh Steelers Head Coach Mike Tomlin held his end of season press conference in which he inferred that changes were imminent. “I’m not going to maintain the status quo and hope that the outcome changes,” said Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin in his end-of-season press conference. “That’s the […]

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Mike Tomlinson being the HEAD COACH is definately a part of the responsibility. If you ask him he will take no credit or consequences of the predicament. Many want Tomlin gone and he is showing hard to find reasoning to keep him on. He has used or experienced every excuse know to football mankind yet still keeps finding them better than the appropriate play called on the field.

Can we do better and I think that is a YES but also realize we could do worse as well. I'm willing to take the gamble because currently our head coach has done the least amount possible with the most amount talented team in the last ten years. Always an excuse of some

I don't know how you can not include him in the dilemma that we face.


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Um yeah. Same **** every year. Kinda good,but not great..half *** prepared looks like just winging it. Same horrific uninspiring ending.

Next year won't be any different. Just pencil in no championship right now.
 
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Can we do better and I think that is a YES but also realize we could do worse as well. I'm willing to take the gamble because currently our head coach has done the least amount possible with the most amount talented team in the last ten years. Always an excuse of some
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Well....just who in the hell yinz wanna blame ? Who is comin ta help ?

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I think they let coaches' contracts expire because Tomlin doesn't want to confront people and fire them and Art II doesn't want to pay people not to work.
 
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Drink IRON City said:
Mike Tomlinson being the HEAD COACH is definately a part of the responsibility. If you ask him he will take no credit or consequences of the predicament. Many want Tomlin gone and he is showing hard to find reasoning to keep him on. He has used or experienced every excuse know to football mankind yet still keeps finding them better than the appropriate play called on the field.

Can we do better and I think that is a YES but also realize we could do worse as well. I'm willing to take the gamble because currently our head coach has done the least amount possible with the most amount talented team in the last ten years. Always an excuse of some

I don't know how you can not include him in the dilemma that we face.


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I simply think Tomlin has changed the culture here...and not for the good. It is time for a change.
 
Tomlin doesn’t come out of it bearing no responsibility.

But ARII has to figure into this somehow — he ultimately is THE boss.


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stillwright said:
I simply think Tomlin has changed the culture here...and not for the good. It is time for a change.
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I believe the Steelers have lost a lot of fans during his tenure. Die hard fans who became casual fans until gradually disinterested. Some of it is on the league, but some of it is on Tomlin's entitlement and mediocrity with overt lack of accountability for results.
 
Agree 100 %. I used to.live Steeler football but in recent years have become indifferent to.the point of expecting losses and not really caring one way or another after a few minutes. In the past my week was ruined following a loss but these are not the same tough blue collar Steelers of the past but an undisciplined arrogant self serving collection of fools embracing the jock snuffer that is Tomlin . Just don't care enough to care anymore as long as he is stupidly employed.

How anyone has faith that he ca finish a season other than in object failure is beyond me. I have had enough and frankly if he is employed after next year will just give up the team as long as he is here. Better things to do than watch his trash year after year.
 
Tomlin’s philosophies are the issue...
people blame him for not being an x’s and o’s guys, but he has had some serious collaborative innovations on defense here... things like “lb on wr” work when the pressure gets to the qb... when it fails, not so much...

What usually burns him, though, is the next man up mentality... if thats the case, have somebody ready who kind kind of cover the big cog players roles... bush went down and every ilb backup was a runstopper... at olb we had something called Cassius marsh playing olb in a playoff game... hell in cowhers days. Carlos emmons was a fourth stringer... we haven’t got those backups ready to be starters pushing for time..

When those guys get in, the strategies stay the same... so fieler at guard didn’t adjust blocking schemes despite him being overwhelmed on the inside... Spillane was still in coverage all the time, pouncey goes out and they had no real plan at backup center when their original plan was cut injured mid season... the guy in tgere was dying on an island that pouncey himself couldn’t handle
 
madinsomniac said:
Tomlin’s philosophies are the issue...
people blame him for not being an x’s and o’s guys, but he has had some serious collaborative innovations on defense here... things like “lb on wr” work when the pressure gets to the qb... when it fails, not so much...

What usually burns him, though, is the next man up mentality... if thats the case, have somebody ready who kind kind of cover the big cog players roles... bush went down and every ilb backup was a runstopper... at olb we had something called Cassius marsh playing olb in a playoff game... hell in cowhers days. Carlos emmons was a fourth stringer... we haven’t got those backups ready to be starters pushing for time..

When those guys get in, the strategies stay the same... so fieler at guard didn’t adjust blocking schemes despite him being overwhelmed on the inside... Spillane was still in coverage all the time, pouncey goes out and they had no real plan at backup center when their original plan was cut injured mid season... the guy in tgere was dying on an island that pouncey himself couldn’t handle
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Yep their depth decisions were some of the teams biggest fails. That and adjusting those depth players if they have to play.

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Robert Spillane played the 4th most snaps on defense, way more than any other ILB, coming off of an injury and obviously not close to game shape, and he was trying to cover Jarvis Landry on the biggest 3rd down of the game and only got beaten by 5 yards. Yes Tomlin is to blame, finally people starting to realize it.

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The criticism you hear most is the lack of playoff wins in the past decade, but I think the more damming criticism is the regular season slow starts, collapses or long stretches of one aspect of the team being totally inept. We saw it this year with the offense. Tomlin has shown he is, often, unable to figure out a problem and solve it. I also question his personnel decisions and stubbornness to change them. You cannot convince me that Terrell Edmunds is a starting NFL safety.
 
Tomlin is a B - B minus coach, above average, but not a great one. There is nothing wrong with that, some people just top out at that level. I would just like to see an upgrade.
 
Troglodyte said:
The criticism you hear most is the lack of playoff wins in the past decade, but I think the more damming criticism is the regular season slow starts, collapses or long stretches of one aspect of the team being totally inept. We saw it this year with the offense. Tomlin has shown he is, often, unable to figure out a problem and solve it. I also question his personnel decisions and stubbornness to change them. You cannot convince me that Terrell Edmunds is a starting NFL safety.
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And let's not forget his tendency - year-in & year-out - to lose to inferior, sub .500 teams. Every. Damn. Year. So...

Is Mike Tomlin to blame for “The Status Quo”?
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I'd say the owners are ultimately to blame for the status quo, being that they haven't gotten rid of him. Tomlin's to blame for the Quid-pro-quo.... the Rooneys give him unwavering support no matter what, and Tomlin returns the favor by giving them (and us) a huge Primanti Bros **** sandwich.
 
There really isn't anyone else to blame.

If assistants or players aren't doing their job, it's his to quickly deal with it, and he hasn't, obviously.
 
Troglodyte said:
The criticism you hear most is the lack of playoff wins in the past decade, but I think the more damming criticism is the regular season slow starts, collapses or long stretches of one aspect of the team being totally inept. We saw it this year with the offense. Tomlin has shown he is, often, unable to figure out a problem and solve it. I also question his personnel decisions and stubbornness to change them. You cannot convince me that Terrell Edmunds is a starting NFL safety.
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Edmunds had a pretty good season. He may not be the playmaker as some of the big name safeties out there, but he's a solid presence in the secondary.
 
All you need to know... Mike Tomlin himself said the Steelers weren't going to go with the "Status Quo", that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results were the definition of insanity. His words.

Then he goes and promotes from within for OC. Ok... good talk Mike.
 
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All you need to know... Mike Tomlin himself said the Steelers weren't going to go with the "Status Quo", that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results were the definition of insanity. His words.
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Yet we completely ignore the running game in recent years and came out each week with the same rotten game play of short passes down the stretch. Yeah, not buying it until I see a change.
 
SteelerFan448 said:
Edmunds had a pretty good season. He may not be the playmaker as some of the big name safeties out there, but he's a solid presence in the secondary.
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Randy Fichter had a pretty good season. He may not be the play caller as some of the big name Coordinators out there, but he's a solid presence on the sideline.
 
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