Originally Posted by
steelreserve
You can make a case that it's not Tomlin's "fault" those two guys are idiots. (although that's not open-and-shut either - would one or both cases have turned out differently under someone who was not known as a "player's coach"?)
But that's not really the point either. If you want to say he "guided them through the minefield," to me that means you either figured out how to avoid the shitstorm, or you came out the other end with a positive result. Well, he didn't avoid it, and so far we've got a shitty result. No playoffs, $21M in dead cap space, and almost zero trade value for two All-Pros.
Like, at best, you can say, "I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt that the team will get back on track if we give him more time." But it's nonsense to treat him like some big hero when, as far as I can tell, all he did for the situation was stand there and be annoyed by it, and the result of the most recent season was a big fat nothing.