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Tomlin is 1-8

Ron Burgundy said:
The subject came up often on sports talk radio today. I thought one of the hosts had a great answer.
"Good teams don't lose to bad teams. Mediocre teams can lose to bad teams, however."
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This is it exactly. It seems that our team is striving for mediocrity under the Tomlin Regime.
 
Idioteque said:
Some of those were home games. And there's probably a qualifying limit; I doubt losing to an 0-1 team would count for this stati.
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Was the stat original quoted as only away games?
 
deljzc said:
Was the stat original quoted as only away games?
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Yes, it was. T-mans original post stated away games.

Doesn't much matter to me. We all know this is a 'beyond coaching' issue. IMO, it is a culture issue. MT gets his guys to SAY the right things very well for a coach. Saying the right things doesn't add up to DOING the right things. MT might be the best HC in the league when it comes to saying the right things. Unfortunately, we are not dealing with professionals in most cases but athletes who get paid. They get paid to DO the right things to make themselves successful. They do not get graded on saying the right things.

We have some players who are naturally motivated to study, work hard, stay in shape, get in shape, watch film of their opponents to exploit weaknesses, take the game in front of them seriously, etc.

Then we have guys who come to work and punch the clock. Out of shape, underprepared, ready to plan their next celebration for doing what they are already PAID to do. We used to have outspoken leaders who would keep everyone in line. Seems like now we have TALKERS. The real leaders who do the stuff to give themselves an advantage are more soft-spoken.

We used to be 'smash-mouth', "I'm gonna run your *** over and there is nothing you're gonna be able to do to stop me"..."and then, I'm gonna do it again" kind of mentality. We had players who played hard every down. Now, we have a finesse team. It's hard to be consistent as a finesse team unless everyone does his job on every down. From 'selling' a route to 'selling' a return before changing direction to picking up a blitz to finishing a block. On defense, from concentrating on assignments, filling YOUR lane to wrapping up a tackle. On the line it takes beating your man or at least NOT allowing him to get free to block his assignment. On STs, if you know you have issues with setting a snap for a kick...practice it over and over until you don't.

As fans, we SEE what the reasons are that we under-perform in games. We don't need an EXPLANATION for it. We need to hear what your going to do to make sure it doesn't happen again.

A dose of humility can be a great motivator...for those who have pride and already take their job seriously enough to put the work in to get better.

Bryant wasn't on the field sooner because he runs lazy routes sometimes. How do you keep him from doing it again. I would point it out on tape in FRONT of the WHOLE team. Make your players accountable. A punter who cannot field a snap to hold for a kick...same thing. Then say, "get to work fixing this problem or someone else will".

As far as "playing down" to our competition, no cliched speeches are going to do the job. They know why they lost too. The question is, what are you going to do about it?

There is an article about our change in conditioning coaches, from Chet Fuhrman to Garrett Giemont. While the team suffers a 'normal range' of injuries w Giemont, they suffered less than average with Fuhrman. We didn't seem to have a bunch of under-conditioned sluggos on our OL or DL. Casey might have been overweight BUT he was strong as an ox because he continued to condition his fatness.

Foster, Pouncey, Gilbert, Beachum and even DeCastro are all under-conditioned athletes. All of them could stand to get stronger and lighter (not in weight but in build).

Cam Thomas is an embarrassment. We have a 260#, 36yr old LB who can squat and bench more than this cream-puff. Getting off blocks seems to be an issue? Have them walk around w squeeze balls all week to develop hand strength so they can squeeze and twist wrists and hands of the offensive players. Thats old-school ****. We don't have to abandon finesse BUT we cannot rely on it entirely.

Every week is the SB fellas. The high-effort guys will get the hats, period. If the HC needs to motivate you, you are in the wrong business BUT YOU WILL be held accountable. That's the kinda **** I want to hear.
 
How many people aren't concerned about losing to the Titans? The Steelers own Monday Night Football at home...but away...I'm not sure of that record. I'm almost at the point that I would put money down that the Steelers lose Monday night.
 
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This was published just before the Tampa Gay game this year.

In contrast, using a source we are not allowed to cite, Noll was 39-1 vs teams that were sub .500 from 72-79. The Steelers of the 70s destroyed inferrior teams.
 
Badcat said:
How many people aren't concerned about losing to the Titans? The Steelers own Monday Night Football at home...but away...I'm not sure of that record. I'm almost at the point that I would put money down that the Steelers lose Monday night.
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The Newspaper That Shall Not Be Named reports that the **** have not lost on Monday night in seven years and have won their last four on MNF.
 
bermudasteel said:
If you dice red onions long enough - your eyes will water...
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And if you defend a bad coach long enough people will start to not take your opinion on him seriously.

Mr Tomlin needs to improve or he needs to go.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
The Newspaper That Shall Not Be Named reports that the **** have not lost on Monday night in seven years and have won their last four on MNF.
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I'm not sure there was not something missing in that statement. Were the last 4 home games and the previous 3 away games, or did they post 3 ties, not loosing 7 and winning 4?
 
Wingman said:
I'm not sure there was not something missing in that statement. Were the last 4 home games and the previous 3 away games, or did they post 3 ties, not loosing 7 and winning 4?
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Direct quote. Maybe they've only played 4 MNF games in 7 years.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
Direct quote. Maybe they've only played 4 MNF games in 7 years.
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I know it was a direct quote, I was referring to the original statement, just thought it was poorly done. Near as I can tell some of them were road games as well.
 
obxsteeler said:
Direct quotes don't always mean a lot unless you know who you're quoting.
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We both knew it was from a sports guy from the paper that shall not be named that was posted on Steelers.com
 
That's almost as good as coming from the White House.
 
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