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The Steelers Are Lowering The Bar

Though I don’t want Tomlin fired yet, I agreed with most of your post until here. This is only partially true. The coach that won the Super Bowl for Denver, Gary Kubiak, retired after the 2016 season. His replacement, Vance Joseph, was the one fired today.

Again, you’re really not wrong, I’m just saying it doesn’t help advance your argument of “winning a Super Bowl shouldn’t protect your job.”
Much like Tomlin, Kubiak had little to do with winning the Super Bowl, Kubiak was carried by Peyton Manning, the way Ben carried Tomlin.
 
I tend to agree with you there. He was given a very good situation after John Fox underachieved.
So now visualize Tomlin as Fox? A new fresh vision with a franchise QB and a lot of other pieces. Maybe that's the real piece to complete the puzzle?
 
As an outsider, winning 66% of your games (10-6 average) when your division has included basically 3.5 - 4 gimmie wins a season (Browns and Bengals) for the past decade isn't all that wonderful.
This is what happens when people just make stats up to reinforce their argument.

The AFC North has sent more teams to the playoffs over the past decade than any other division. They have sent 8 teams to the playoffs as a wildcard, twice as many as every other AFC division.

Cincinnati has made the playoffs 6 times in the last 10 years. The same number of times as the Ravens, Steelers, and Saints. The only 3 teams with more appearances are the Seahawks (7), Packers (8), and Patriots (10).

The AFC North has the 4th highest interdivisional record over the past decade with a 50.5% winning percentage. But no division has more wins outside of their own division when looking at just the top 3 teams from each division.

The AFC North has a very strong argument for being the toughest division in the NFL. Trying to put down the Steelers' regular season success is laughable. Playoffs, that's a different story.

Even if the division was terrible, only New England and New Orleans have a higher interdivisional record than the Steelers over the last decade.
 
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Chuck Noll - .572 winning %
Bill Cowher - .622 winning %
Mike Tomlin - .660 winning %

Chuck Noll started with a very bad team, built it up. At the end as the great players got older and retired the team went down a bit.

Bill Cowher got teams into the playoffs far WITHOUT a HOF QB. No one in their right mind will say Kordell and O'Donnell were franchise QBs.
Bill had a franchise QB for only a couple years and went 1-1 in SBs

Tomlin has had a HOF QB his entire tenure and has severely under-performed.

Tomlin needs to go. his record against sub .500 teams is appalling for an allegedly good coach.
 
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Once upon a time the goal was winning Superbowls.
Not to many years ago the goal was winning the division.
A few years later the goal was to make the playoffs.
Today the goal as stated by many fans and Tomlin is having a winning season and morale victories (new Orleans) which he Tomlin spoke about after the Bengals game.

Once you start lowering the bar as the Steelers are it'll be difficult to reestablish excellence.

Today Tomlin said he was proud of the team going to to toe with New Orleans (Mike we lost) and having a winning record.

As the hosts of The Fan said today so now Tomlin and the Steelers are happy with Morale Victories.
The Fan hosts went on to say this was an epic collapse being 7-2 and leading the division not to long ago.They said this would be like a mlb team blowing a 20 game lead.

Incompetents love Lowering The Bar since the low goal setting matches their talent level.

This is perfect for Tomlin and his low level staff.

The standard is to defend Tomlin at all costs.
 
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The bar has really been lowered by the Steelers.

Now we have a player AB missing work, missing practice, which leads to him missing an important game, he was involved in some kind of incident with Ben on Wed and hasn't returned call from his bosses Tomlin ( the enabler) and Rooney the team owner.
Apparently Tomlin has enabled Brown over the course of a number of seasons and has created this undisciplined monster!
Plus the HC Tomlin made up a story about AB having an injured knee which isn't true which was validated on Th Fan this morning.
My guess is Tomlin made up the X-ray story in Oakland.
Tomlin has lost the Locker Room.

Players not coming to work.
Coaches not discipling players
HC making up stories as to why a star player is missing an important game
The same Star play not communicating with the players, HC, or owner.
The locker room is in Chaos!

The Bar Has Been Lowered!
 
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