Apparently NBC was the only one dumb enough to want Tomlin’s “insight”.

[topseed]

Here's what I'm saying. You have no damn idea about what adjustments, if any, are being made in a game.

Speak for yourself, guy. Just because you have no damn idea doesn't mean other people don't. Just like when you blame every last thing on the players, you know, because players play. Coaching couldn't possibly have anything to do with anything. So ******* stupid.

 

[topseed]

This illustrates the point. Anything anyone perceives as a possible "adjustment," you will have some smartasss response to. Now, you have no proof it was or wasn't an "adjustment," it's just speculation. It is not a fair challenge. None of us were on the sideline or in the locker room. And this is not some defense of Tomlin. For example, I think of the game in 2024 in Cincy. For that game they threw to Freiermuth a lot and were very successful. Was this an "adjustment" or did the damn staff finally realize they have a pretty good TE and maybe we want to use him? And then after that they forgot about him again, so if it was an "adjustment" it didn't last.

Yes, it specifically illustrates that there were no adjustments made in the Chargers game. The Steelers got two sacks, injured their starting quarterback, put them in third-and-long situations forcing punts, and that's the simple truth.

I wonder if the opposite is actually more true. I wonder if teams work all week on a game plan, and in truth a lot of coaches get a hair in their asss and move away from it too quickly if things aren't going well initially. The last thing any coach wants is to be accused of not making "adjustments." They don't give it time to work. My favorite OC after the 1970s was Ron Erhardt. You felt like you were looking over his shoulder in a way, you could see what he was setting up for later. Those 2 yard gains in the 1st turned into 5 to 7 yard gains by the 3rd and even bigger chunks by the 4th. But it seemed he stuck with it.

Certainly not in Mike Tomlin's case.

I had to laugh at your invoking of the Eagles earlier. I am surrounded by Eagles fans and all you heard all year was they don't make "adjustments." It seems like an argument all fans go to when their team isn't doing as well as they'd like to sound smart.

I live around a lot of Eagles fans, too. They like to pretend like they know what they're talking about, but they usually don't. I have to laugh, because you remind me of them.

 

[Steelr4evr]

All I got is a song.

 

[topseed]

So you ignore the totality of that season where we were one of the best in the third quarter, not just the Chargers game? Even many of his most ardent detractors on here were admitting he was making some nice adjustments. And if you don't think the Pats were cheating back in the day we have nothing left to talk about.

I didn't ignore anything. I already explained to you that a lot of those third quarter points came against some of the shittiest teams in the league. So, SPECIFICALLY, what were those nice adjustments people were talking about? I'll wait.

Didn't say the Patriots weren't cheating. Said they didn't need to cheat to beat the Steelers. You disagree with that statement?

 

[SteelerInLebanon]

I didn't ignore anything. I already explained to you that a lot of those third quarter points came against some of the shittiest teams in the league. So, SPECIFICALLY, what were those nice adjustments people were talking about? I'll wait.

Didn't say the Patriots weren't cheating. Said they didn't need to cheat to beat the Steelers. You disagree with that statement?

They make adjustments in every single game. They don't always work, obviously as the other team also adjusts. You don't have a coaching career and win as many games after losing a Hall of Fame QB without being able to make adjustments. A few of note for you, 2020 losing to the Baltimore down 17-7 they shifted strategy and mostly shut them down coming from behind for a 28-24 win. It wasn't one specific change but an overall shift in defensive and offensive play calls. Same Against the Rams and Aaron Donald a few years ago where we shifted blocking strategies at half and came back to win that game after Donald abused us early. Hell pulling Trubisky and inserting Pickett at halftime almost wining that game was a nice adjustment. Most adjustments are subtle and can simply be changed blocking assignments or a shift of personnel on the defensive line. Frequently at half time over the last few years, we saw different combos on the d-line to adjust for what was being thrown at us. It is completely ignorant and disingenuous to think you can win games for 19 years as regularly as he did and not be making those adjustments. Most of which the average fan would never even notice aside from winning the game.

Even against the Bills in the playoffs, we made a better game of it after a terrible first quarter. If we hadn't adjusted multiple things, particularly on offense it would have been far worse. We lost so you don't think about the changes made but we were down 14 then played them even the rest of the way. It wasn't enough but the scheme did change.

 

[Confluence]

It was the 'Rona that got him.

Yep. He went full retard, early.

 

[diver]

Speak for yourself, guy. Just because you have no damn idea doesn't mean other people don't. Just like when you blame every last thing on the players, you know, because players play. Coaching couldn't possibly have anything to do with anything. So ******* stupid.

You say I said that. I never said coaching was not important. I have consistently stated that players are more important. Everybody knows this. If they don't admit it, their actions prove it. Over 800,000 people came to the NFL draft in Pittsburgh to watch their teams pick players. Could you get a couple of hundred people to a press conference announcing a new coach in any NFL city?

 

[bermudasteel]

What does that have to do with an in-game adjustment, exactly?

Who cares... it's off season...

 

[bermudasteel]

So I'll now ask you to give me three specific examples. But first, take off your Mike Tomlin underoos.

Top, I'm not doing that but I respect your stand.

Want me to order you a three pack??? They're really comfy and support your package so you can articulate to others on all levels...













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