FIRE MIKE TOMLIN!!

[polamalubeast]

It’s amazing that Tomlin has missed the playoffs three times in 10 seasons despite having Roethlisberger. With Brady starting, Belichick has made the post-season 14 times in 15 tries.

This is a terrible argument.....Don Shula miss the playoffs 4 years in a row with the great Dan Marino....

[fansince'76]

It also helps to play in the weakest division in the league. The Patriots haven't had a team even remotely like the Ravens (or recently even Cincinnati) to deal with. Every 5 years or so, the Jets or Dolphins might make a little noise, but more years than not every team in the AFC Least not named "Patriots" absolutely sucks.

My question is this - if Belichick is supposedly the be-all and end-all of football, why is it that EVERY ONE of his assistants who have gone on to coach elsewhere have fallen flat on their faces? I'm not talking "mild disappointments," either - they've pretty much all been EPIC FAILURES. McDaniels is STILL a punch line here in the Denver area. Hell, Weis couldn't even cut it as an HC at the COLLEGE level. And I'm not even going to mention "Grimace" (Crennel). And supposedly, Pioli ran the Chiefs' FO like the Nixon White House to boot...

[Craic]

The easiest way to peg Tomlin's value is to start listing active coaches that can be reasonably be rated as significantly superior to Tomlin.

Bellichek. Carroll? I don't see it but everyone keeps telling me how great the Harbaugh boys are.

In all honesty, everyone else is equal or far lesser of a coach than Tomlin.

Does that hat make him great? Nope. But it is hard for me to see who would be a clearly superior choice?

This is a great point . . . in fact, Good enough that I think a new thread should be made for it.

[polamalubeast]

The easiest way to peg Tomlin's value is to start listing active coaches that can be reasonably be rated as significantly superior to Tomlin.

Bellichek. Carroll? I don't see it but everyone keeps telling me how great the Harbaugh boys are.

In all honesty, everyone else is equal or far lesser of a coach than Tomlin.

Does that hat make him great? Nope. But it is hard for me to see who would be a clearly superior choice?

Maybe Andy Reid?...No super bowl right now,but still a very good HC.

[tube517]

It also helps to play in the weakest division in the league. The Patriots haven't had a team even remotely like the Ravens (or recently even Cincinnati) to deal with. Every 5 years or so, the Jets or Dolphins might make a little noise, but more years than not every team in the AFC Least not named "Patriots" absolutely sucks.

My question is this - if Belichick is supposedly the be-all and end-all of football, why is it that EVERY ONE of his assistants who have gone on to coach elsewhere have fallen flat on their faces? I'm not talking "mild disappointments," either - they've pretty much all been EPIC FAILURES. McDaniels is STILL a punch line here in the Denver area. Hell, Weis couldn't even cut it as an HC at the COLLEGE level. And I'm not even going to mention "Grimace" (Crennel). And supposedly, Pioli ran the Chiefs' FO like the Nixon White House to boot...

[smokin3000gt]

Madden: Terry Bradshaw wasn't wrong in calling Tomlin a cheerleader

Should Tomlin be judged by his results? If so, what results? Tomlin has 102 wins in 10 seasons. But the further Tomlin gets away from everything he inherited from Bill Cowher in 2007, the worse he does.


read more


http://www.timesonline.com/columnist...cde7468fc.html

I should have quit sooner but I quit reading there.

[43Hitman]

I should have quit sooner but I quit reading there.

Me too. I'm glad that he is no longer on Steelers Nation Radio.

[hawaiiansteeler]

Starkey's Mailbag: Is Mike Tomlin the right coach for the Steelers?

January 3, 2017
By Joe Starkey / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Welcome to Joe Starkey’s weekly mailbag, where the Post-Gazette columnist and 93.7 The Fan radio host answers your questions about sports, life, Buffalo, Bob Dylan and everything in between. On to the questions:

Randy White Jr., @RandyWhitejr: In your opinion is Mike Tomlin the right coach for the Steelers?

Starkey: Funny you should ask, Mr. White. No really. It’s laugh-out-loud funny that you should ask. The man is coming off his second division title in three years. His team is riding a seven-game winning streak and just made the playoffs for the third consecutive year (Steelers’ longest streak since mid-90s), and this question keeps coming up? Why? Because Terry Bradshaw and Jason Wrong-lock think it should? (Wrong-lock, incidentally, tweeted out his coach rankings the other day and had Marvin Lewis ahead of Tomlin, even though Lewis is 2-14 at home against the Steelers and has NO PLAYOFF WINS IN 14 YEARS. Wrong-lock also predicted, a few years ago, that Todd Haley would one day get Tomlin fired; instead, the Steelers have finished in the top 10 in scoring for three consecutive years for the first time since the early ‘80s).

The Tomlin-haters’ refrain, which they belt out like braying mules, is “One playoff win in the past five years!” as if there’s nothing else to look at there besides the head coach. It’s such a dumbed-down, made-for-morons opinion (not that there’s anything wrong with that; morons make people rich). No thought, no perspective. Just a molten take, designed to rile up fans who cannot think for themselves and do not like Tomlin for one reason or another.

to read rest of article:

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/j...s/201701030124

[polamalubeast]

It's going to be very ugly in this thread if the steelers lose against the dolphins on Sunday.And I'll understand that too.

[tube517]

Wrong-lock, incidentally, tweeted out his coach rankings the other day and had Marvin Lewis ahead of Tomlin, even though Lewis is 2-14 at home against the Steelers and has NO PLAYOFF WINS IN 14 YEARS. Wrong-lock also predicted, a few years ago, that Todd Haley would one day get Tomlin fired

Does Wronglock hate Rosey Nix and 3 TE formations ???

[#CRASHFormation]

Does Wronglock hate Rosey Nix and 3 TE formations ???

Any sane Roethlisberger fan (Which Jason admits he is) should.

If Nix has 11 or more snaps Sunday the Steelers will be lucky to score 17 points.

[#CRASHFormation]

Wrong-lock also predicted, a few years ago, that Todd Haley would one day get Tomlin fired

"Ravens fired an offensive coordinator during a year in which they won Super Bowl. Why can't Steelers?"


-Joe Starkey October 12th 2014

So Starkey calls out Whitlock, and ignores the fact that HE wanted Haley fired in 2014 which would have made Whitlock correct?

So Starkey's allowed to demand Haley's firing but he'll throw stones at Whitlock, and not himself when the Steelers didn't do what HE wanted them to do? LOL

[Born2Steel]

I think Todd Haley is being groomed for when Tomlin retires in about 10 years.

[#CRASHFormation]

Naaaaa......Haley would be what? 57? If he's going to take over for Tomlin it will be within the next three years.

Haley would coach that team for $2 mil a year. Tomlin's next raise would put him at about $8 million per.

[Craic]

I think Todd Haley is being groomed for when Tomlin retires in about 10 years.

I doubt it. It would be exactly opposite of all three key elements the Steelers use to pick a head coach since hiring Noll.

1. Young.

2. Defensive Coordinator

3. Not currently with the Steelers

[teegre]

I doubt it. It would be exactly opposite of all three key elements the Steelers use to pick a head coach since hiring Noll.

1. Young.

2. Defensive Coordinator

3. Not currently with the Steelers

4. Sane

[tube517]

Haley doesn't know his way around pom poms, cool shades, the poker table, or the fartoxide of a hippo.

[#CRASHFormation]

4. Sane

Yup.

Btw, saw this on Twitter yesterday.

Last season:

[polamalubeast]

[tube517]

http://www.steelersdepot.com/2017/01...ll-sleep-good/

“I wish I hadn’t had said ‘cheerleader,’” Bradshaw said, according Rob Owen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “It was an instantaneous response. I referenced it to on the sideline the camera will catch him a lot of times and he’s gyrating so cheerleading was the first thing that came to my mind.”

[Mojouw]

So now Bradshaw is basically saying that he doesn't like Tomlin because he doesn't look and act like what his out of date self thinks a football coach should look like? Yeah. Terry - that's a better spin on this.

[teegre]

So now Bradshaw is basically saying that he doesn't like Tomlin because he doesn't look and act like what his out of date self thinks a football coach should look like?

[43Hitman]

Terry needs to let the baggage go. Why he continues to carry around this bitterness for the way he was treated in his early years is beyond me. Borderline crazy maybe?

[polamalubeast]

Terry Bradshaw regrets 'cheerleader' line, doesn't like Mike Tomlin's response

http://www.espn.com/blog/pittsburgh-...mlins-response

[Born2Steel]

I doubt it. It would be exactly opposite of all three key elements the Steelers use to pick a head coach since hiring Noll.

1. Young.

2. Defensive Coordinator

3. Not currently with the Steelers

LOL. That was me trying to poke the CRASH bear.

[fansince'76]

Bradshaw really needs to just go away at this point...

After the press conference Bradshaw said he doesn’t have an emotional, fan attachment to any team except the New Orleans Saints because he’s from Louisiana.

“I deliberately stay away from Pittsburgh other than the Mike Tomlin comment,” he said. “I’m never gonna say anything bad about Pittsburgh, that’s not being fair as an analyst, I know that. They’re off-limits other than my little problem. And I made it clear the Saints are my team, there's my love interest, and everybody else is fair game if they screw up. … I pull more for people [than teams]. If Pittsburgh loses, I still sleep good.”

Terry Bradshaw walks back his Mike Tomlin ‘cheerleader’ comment

What's the old adage about holes and ceasing to dig when you find yourself in one?

[AtlantaDan]

Terry Bradshaw regrets 'cheerleader' line, doesn't like Mike Tomlin's response

http://www.espn.com/blog/pittsburgh-...mlins-response

Good to know Tomlin's return fire achieved its purpose and bothers Bradshaw

Former Steelers PR director Joe Gordon summed it up when Bradshaw was in Pittsburgh with his moronic "comedy" show at the time of Coach Noll's passing but blew off paying his respects to Coach Noll's family

“He’s the most insincere person I’ve ever known”

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/...to-chuck-noll/

[tube517]

Good to know Tomlin's return fire achieved its purpose and bothers Bradshaw

Former Steelers PR director Joe Gordon summed it up when Bradshaw was in Pittsburgh with his moronic "comedy" show at the time of Coach Noll's passing but blew off paying his respects to Coach Noll's family

“He’s the most insincere person I’ve ever known”

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/...to-chuck-noll/

He didn't go to The Chief's funeral either. What confuses me is he completely buried the hatchet at the 2002 Dapper Dan dinner (on YouTube) and Terry asked Coach Noll to present him (which Noll gladly did and cancelled a vacation trip to do so). Terry apologized and said he was the one that was wrong and that he missed his coach. I think he's been hit so many times that he forgets what he says.

[polamalubeast]

Remember in 2010....

[pczach]

Bradshaw really needs to just go away at this point...



Terry Bradshaw walks back his Mike Tomlin ‘cheerleader’ comment

What's the old adage about holes and ceasing to dig when you find yourself in one?

He's a self-serving, insincere, bitter, confused, petty, and psychologically challenged man that has completely turned his back on many of the people that made him the player he became.... giving him the success he's had in life, while also giving him the platform to become the classless ass he has become in the media and in his relationships with the Pittsburgh Steelers organization and coaches.

He has always been an embarrassment in social situations that weren't staged to benefit him.

He's a phony. He doesn't acknowledge, appreciate, or deserve the mentoring he received as an overwhelmed, underachieving player.

Imagine how much differently his career would have gone if his fragile mind was drafted by a team with no talent, bad coaching, and no support system.

Nobody would even remember who Terry Bradshaw was.