Mediocre, your words, IS NOT being a loser. It's simply mediocre.
Mike Tomlin extension to be announced soon
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Mediocre, your words, IS NOT being a loser. It's simply mediocre.
After being compared to the cheats via Pens vs Caps. I understand the hostility towards the cheats. Sometimes our teams, dating back to the Cowher days have had trouble with these punks in the post season.
Congrats to Tomlin. Hope the extension motivates you to get the team going on a championship run
The question is not whether Tomlin gets the extension...
the real question is how LONG Tomlin wants the extension to be for...
Tomlin is now ingrained into the organization and the "Rooney Way"...he is a permanent fixture on the North Side and the face of the Steeler management team.
He can basically determine how long he wants to be the Head Coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers at this point..
If fact...I could see him moving into a higher role within the organization when he decides to retire from Coaching.
I know theres a large segment here that choose not to accept this...but it is reality IMHO..
the real question is how LONG Tomlin wants the extension to be for...
Tomlin is now ingrained into the organization and the "Rooney Way"...he is a permanent fixture on the North Side and the face of the Steeler management team.
He can basically determine how long he wants to be the Head Coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers at this point..
If fact...I could see him moving into a higher role within the organization when he decides to retire from Coaching.
I know theres a large segment here that choose not to accept this...but it is reality IMHO..
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It is a reality and thank God for that! Coaching stability, even in the face of adversity, is what has separated Pittsburgh from the garbage teams in the league for the past 50 years. This is no time to change philosophy to see how the other half lives. It's working just fine. Changing personnel every 3 years just to make changes is a guarantee for constant failure. See Cleveland. They would have had a few decent seasons by now if they had just stuck with SOMEBODY for more than 2-3 years. Instead they choose to start from scratch every 2 years. Insanity.
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I honestly don't have a problem with Tomlin, although it does drive me crazy with the annual losses to teams like Jacksonville, Tampa, or a disseminated Ravens team. And the fact that the word adjustment doesn't seem to be in Coach Cool Shades vocabulary.
Put an incentive bonus in MT's contract that pays him an extra $5 million every time he beats the Pats*****. That might fix it.
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Oh I agree it's infuriating. But the Steeler tradition of losing to absolute garbage teams and beating good ones, goes back farther than Coach Cool Shades.
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It's true. Much as I love Capt. Caveman, he lost to a lot of inferior teams during his tenure. It's just part of football;any given Sunday.....you might get your *** kicked.
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So would Vince Lombardi. What a silly statement. Take your franchise QB away and replace him with Landry Jones, I'll give you any coach in the history of the game.....you won't be over .500 for the season.
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Tomlin has not only been up against who many think is the best coach of all time and the best QB of all time but we all know they also cheated to get where they are. All the more reason to give props to Tomlin.There's not a coach in the league right now that I would take over him.
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I do not subscribe to this mediocre mentality.
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Lance Armstrong was the greatest of all time and then we found out the truth. We already know the truth about the pats***** just not in detail.
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Tomlin is a good coach. He does have some faults,but every single person does. Unless you're Billiecheat who's been taking it to everyone because he has no integrity at all. When you call them out they blow people out even more. ******* frauds.
Exactly. Thus, making Tomlin look even better because he was up against a cheating organization that got away with it.
They still have at least two Lombardis that should belong to us.
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Tomlin is pretty bad without Ben, underachieves relative to his talent, and has a bad history of losing to too many .500 and below teams.
Keep Lombardi's name out of this, He took over a bad team and made them winners. Tomlin won with Cowher's players early.
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This old argument never dies. Yep, Tomlin won with Cowher's players early. After Cowher's were gone? Still winning. I'm sorry, it's a dumb argument to say a coach is not good because he gets worse if you take away a franchise QB. No ****! Give Bill Belecheck Landry Jones instead of Brady. Even he couldn't cheat enough to keep winning. Chuck Noll had a lot of lousy seasons at the end of his coaching career. He also had people like Bubby Brister, Todd Blackledge and Mark Malone playing QB. Does his poor record after Bradshaw was gone mean he was a bad coach? Or did he instantly and magically get dumber when his Franchise QB retired and he had to use sub standard players at the position?
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Continuity is a good thing to a point. The question is at what point do you say 10-6 and a playoff loss is not the continuity you want? Tomlin has not progressed in his tenure here, and his most memorable moment on the sidelines may be the bush-league incident of interfering with the kick return in that Ratbirds game.
Ben retires next year and this team instantly becomes the Steelers of the 1980s.
This was a mistake.
Ben retires next year and this team instantly becomes the Steelers of the 1980s.
This was a mistake.
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More memorable than winning a SB?
That all happens.....if they do not find a suitable replacement for Ben. If they do, Tomlin will keep winning, just like he always has. Coaches almost never win without a good QB. It's happened....but not often. Even Chuck Noll couldn't do it, hence my comment above.
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If we had drafted Marino they would have renamed the Lombardi trophy to the Noll trophy.
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No kidding. You are right on that one. Although he rosters on offense he had as a whole in those days weren't great. I remember Louis Lipps being the Steelers marquee offensive player for a good while. Don't get me wrong, he was a fine WR, but not the face of a Franchise type player lol. He and Walter Abercombe were the thunder and lighting of the Steelers offense in that era.
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The 70's Steelers had a lot of good years and that in turn means a lot of years drafting late and not being able to follow up with as many good players, so you get the Steelers of the 80's with Keith Gary replacing Dwight White and Lupe Sanchez replacing Mel Blount. At least that's how it works for everyone except Belicheat.
A playoff loss in the Afc championship last year and in the super bowl a few years ago, after winning a super bowl. While not perfect or legendary, pretty damn good.