Originally Posted by 86WARD
while you seem to be hinting at line play and O.C. and being encircled with players around him with such a blanket statement I would say Just O.C. is the only true drawback reason being as followed ...
1) we have skillset players , like him or not butterfingers DJ was a league leader a season ago ....
2) Pickens is all we could ever ask for as a rookie WR and then some
3) as badly as Najee has played he showed last week against backups he can still play pretty well as can Warren when the opportunities arise
4) Mooooth is a beast in the making
5) this line has lots to be desired , that said its good enough with a mobile QB to succeed , granted not ideal and lot of room for improvement but if the QB has "feel"they give enough time to navigate and or escape the pocket
so what is really the problem ???
The O.C.
what are we not yet certain of ...
Kenny Pickett ...
Yes there has been some flashes of potential but also lots of flashes of WTF was that but as long as we continue to have Canada calling the plays we will not get consistent/proper development from Kenny to know if he was a good selection or not ....
sure everyone knows he wasnt my guy , but he is a Steeler I WANT him to be great , I want to be wrong and right now IMO they are not doing everything as an organization to make me be wrong (sooner rather than later) That is on Mike Tomlin ....
I've not been a Tomlin supporter or hater in the past , I feel like your teams are a direct representation of you as a Head football coach..
So when you have a superior roster I expect superior results ( we have not always seen that in fact we have seen it far less that we likely should have with some of the rosters we have had in the last decade )
Not putting players in the best opportunity to succeed has been a problem his entire tenure IMO , I think ( can't prove it ) he gives autonomy to his position coaches and should probably poke the bear more often when results are not above the line but he instead puts in far to much effort to impress you and me with his catch phrases and the media is enamored by that and his charisma and they fall for the great coach never a losing season crap because of it and not delving deeper and asking why hasnt a "quality coach" with a big 3 such as ben , bell and Brown back in the day ( and brown always had atleast 1 other guy who played opposite him that could take the top off a def see martavis , wallace etc or a combat catch guy like Ward or juju or both ) couple that with a top 5 defense most years under Lebeau and a few with Butler yet not much hardware to show for it but quite a few 1 and done seasons .... at some point the HC needs to be accountable for those things IMO
there is a lot that goes into success but even more that goes into reaching the highest Pinnacle of the sport Tomlin has underachieved as a head Coach but he will stay as long as he wants because the Organization is loyal to a fault at times in order to maintain continued stability and stay relevant ( so some good and bad there )
I personally lost some respect for Tomlin at the end of last season for not removing Canada , this year a very large amount of the respect that still remained left when he failed to remove Canada when it was CLEAR to all the free world BUT Tomlin that Canada needed to be shown the door he continued to defend him instead of removing him....
At this point I am unsure if Tomlin is worth keeping because of his unwillingness to make a change when it is clear change is necessary , that to me is not putting your players or your team in the best chance to succeed and that should be Job #1 of your Head Coach ...yes shit rolls downhill .... until it don't meaning we can blame the coordinators until such time as we should be blaming their boss for not removing them
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