Steeler Predictions
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8-8 here as well, will say better chance of 9-7 than 7-9. I think Tomlin and Roethlisberger both leave after next season.
Not really being talked about, but I don’t think the Steelers want Tomlin to be the guy at the head of a total rebuild. Will probably go the young coordinator route again and start over with Rudolph in 2021. Their record won’t be bad enough the next couple years to get anyone much better in the draft, and we all know they aren’t going to sign a big time free agent QB.
Not really being talked about, but I don’t think the Steelers want Tomlin to be the guy at the head of a total rebuild. Will probably go the young coordinator route again and start over with Rudolph in 2021. Their record won’t be bad enough the next couple years to get anyone much better in the draft, and we all know they aren’t going to sign a big time free agent QB.
I said somewhere between 7-9 and 9-7 before the season began. But after watching last night... 15-1 and ring #7, baby.
Butler should have been fired after the Jaguars playoff game and two years later he is still the coordinator. I hate the O coordinator and how PIT doesn't put Nix in on 3rd and 1 to slam it behind some high-priced lineman.
Moncrief made Nakia Griffin-Stewart look like Tony Gonzalez.
Keith Butler is as much a problem as anything with this team. They keep giving the guy talent and they line up man to man with the one team you should never, ever do that with.
This looked like a Pirate move. Let's sign someone off of the washout pile.
I'm not a Butler guy at all, but I heard Tomlin was calling the shots in that Jaguars game. That had to be the worst playoff loss we've ever endured (including Tebow). To let a team that could only nickel and dime you... nickel and dime you. Have the Jaguars even scored 45 points total since that game?
Too early. Getting smashed by NE in their stadium in week one doesn't reveal anything beyond that they are vastly inferior to NE.
If a hc and staff can't or isnt willing to plan properly, make on the fly and halftime adjustments the isnt alot of upside.
Hard to say where the Steelers end up.
Nice fg decision coach.
Hard to say where the Steelers end up.
Nice fg decision coach.
I have wanted Tomlin gone for years. James Harrison basically summarized my thoughts in a radio interview this past DEC. Tomlin was handed a Super Bowl team, and basically didn't have to do anything to win another one. He doesn't have it in him to go head to head with talented coaches like NE.
We have been steamrolled by NE in the past, particularly at their place, but last night was by far the worst and most embarrassing in my mind. We were so far outclassed in every facet of the game, from talent on both sides of the ball, preparation, schemes, play-calling, effort, decision-making, on and on.
Regardless of the difference in talent, the disparity in performance should not be that lop-sided. OC and DC both are bad as stated by many herein and that all falls big time on the HC.
The talent thing is what struck me. We've lost to them plenty of times when we had more talent. But it was obvious that they've now surpassed us by every measurement that exists. I'm actually glad Antonio Brown is going there now. While he may turn them into a 19-0 team, he's also the only chance we've got of them imploding. It's like throwing a banana at King Kong: He'll probably just eat it and grow even stronger, but maybe there's a 2% chance he'll slip on the peel and tear an ACL or something.
If Belichick was coaching the Steelers he never would have given Pouncey a third contract paying him $11 million a year and he would have traded DeCastro to Seattle last year for a first and a third. Bill then would have replaced those guys with a fifth rounder and an UDFA and we never would have noticed.
To me, as someone in sales, he took over an ace territory. It is a good territory, every year hits numbers. One year a big order comes along and he looks like a hero. But when you step back and look at the whole, you realize, he is just managing accounts, he is not growing the business. I believe that was Tomlin.
As said, he inherited a SB team, a HOF QB, then drafted AB and Bell, some really good OL, defensively the drafts spotty and as the years have gone on, both scheme and talent have lacked. Now.....the HOF QB is in his mid 30's, explosive playmakers gone....defense weak, same avg coaching and he is no longer able to skate by.
10-6. Yeah hideous loss but NE is their kryptonite, their white whale. Mediocre division opponents are still the happy reality and will account for half those wins. Will they go anywhere in the playoffs? Not likely, with NE and now KC in the way and the Steelers D helpless against each. But a one and done will still likely be spun as a great comeback, from missing the playoffs last year and the "adversity" of week 1 (as if they didn't cause their own adversity by sucking) to "make a playoff run" (hey, one game is still a run!). It's how it goes in this burg, especially with a minority coach.
If and when the Steelers do ever decide to part with him, through anything less than a retirement victory tour (such as a flat out decision to not bring him back... he'll never be outright fired) , it'll give permission for the media to let loose on Tomlin. Suddenly he'd be portrayed as the utter buffoon. Don't call it racist, call it homerist.
If and when the Steelers do ever decide to part with him, through anything less than a retirement victory tour (such as a flat out decision to not bring him back... he'll never be outright fired) , it'll give permission for the media to let loose on Tomlin. Suddenly he'd be portrayed as the utter buffoon. Don't call it racist, call it homerist.
Ummm both Tomlin and Ben's contracts are through 2021 and Colbert's is up after next years draft so it's pretty clear that Art II is looking to make major changes after the 2021 season, he'll let Tomlin go off to Carolina, Tampa Bay or Washington with the new coach handling the re-build. Remember The Rooney's goal since the Cowher days were to be good enough to make the playoffs most years and they still have a shot at that the next few seasons. If the bottom falls out and they end up picking in the top 10 and can land a top QB they'll speed up the process and dump Tomlin and Ben in a heartbeat.
We’ve got two clowns as coordinators. Our hc is bad too but he’s safe from being fired because he’s.... well, you know.
Coaches don’t make trades. You meant if Belicheat was coach AND general manager and had the final say on player personnel. Like how he has it in New England and how Gruden apparently has it in Oakland
