Anyone actually sad about Tomlin resigning?

[TimmayLake]

Not me - I'm ecstatic. This is only slightly worse than winning a Super Bowl.

Just wondering if any Mike T fanbois are crying into their Cheerios tonight?

[Steelafan77]

This day was long overdue for me. I wanted him gone after the 2011 season. Count me as ecstatic as well.

[Ice]

Living in Delaware, amongst mostly Philly fans and a few casual Steeler fans, lot of folks were actually checking in to see if I was bummed out over this, and were visibly surprised to see how happy I was. One of the few colleagues I actually get together and watch games and talk sports with outside of work and I are going out for some beers to celebrate both getting a late Christmas gift after a first round exit. He's over the moon about the Iggles jettisoning their OC.

[K_C_]

Anybody sad about this is not a Steelers fan.

Long, long overdue.

[Jizz Mop]

Think we have a few remaining Tomlin nuthuggers here

Which is borderline mental illness

[955876]

Nope. Not even a lil. And I do t care if the new coach delivers a losing season next year.

I’m sure the media will be all over that. Oh look, new coach and Steelers have their first losing season in 20 years.

I’ll relish it.

Don’t expect the new coach to come in and win with this roster. Going to take a couple years. Especially to get the right QB. Willing to be patient.

[StillerDownSouth]

Better than Christmas when I was 5

[Stlcrtn1974]

Nope. Not even a lil. And I do t care if the new coach delivers a losing season next year.

I’m sure the media will be all over that. Oh look, new coach and Steelers have their first losing season in 20 years.

I’ll relish it.

Don’t expect the new coach to come in and win with this roster. Going to take a couple years. Especially to get the right QB. Willing to be patient.

Noll left Cowher a few pieces away from a Super Bowl team.
Cowher left Tomlin a Super Bowl team with a franchise QB and dominant D.
Tomlin is leaving the next coach a fucking disaster. A few serviceable pieces to start but alot is needed to do to bring the Steelers back to the Franchise we all know and love.

[TimmayLake]

Nope. Not even a lil. And I do t care if the new coach delivers a losing season next year.

I’m sure the media will be all over that. Oh look, new coach and Steelers have their first losing season in 20 years.

I’ll relish it.

Don’t expect the new coach to come in and win with this roster. Going to take a couple years. Especially to get the right QB. Willing to be patient.

Noll left Cowher a few pieces away from a Super Bowl team.
Cowher left Tomlin a Super Bowl team with a franchise QB and dominant D.
Tomlin is leaving the next coach a fucking disaster. A few serviceable pieces to start but alot is needed to do to bring the Steelers back to the Franchise we all know and love.

Yeah, what pieces are even noteworthy?

Good STs in Boz and Waitman.
DK if he's kept.
Washington has promise as a TE2 (need to draft a TE1)
Cook looks promising at LT
Warren/Gainwell are serviceable RBs
Harmon/Black have promise.
JPJJ has improved and reduced penalties.

That's about it?

[steelmann58]

he had a good run and won a SB but it was time to move on IMO

[langer]

I am only getting happier and happier.

Good riddance to this entitled cunt. I hope he leaves Pittsburgh. I hope his wife’s stupid store closes down.

Will another owner give him what he got here and allow him to do whatever he wanted like he did here.

FINALLY

[jeemie]

Nope. Not even a lil. And I do t care if the new coach delivers a losing season next year.

I’m sure the media will be all over that. Oh look, new coach and Steelers have their first losing season in 20 years.

I’ll relish it.

Don’t expect the new coach to come in and win with this roster. Going to take a couple years. Especially to get the right QB. Willing to be patient.

Noll left Cowher a few pieces away from a Super Bowl team.
Cowher left Tomlin a Super Bowl team with a franchise QB and dominant D.
Tomlin is leaving the next coach a fucking disaster. A few serviceable pieces to start but alot is needed to do to bring the Steelers back to the Franchise we all know and love.

Yeah, what pieces are even noteworthy?

Good STs in Boz and Waitman.
DK if he's kept.
Washington has promise as a TE2 (need to draft a TE1)
Cook looks promising at LT
Warren/Gainwell are serviceable RBs
Harmon/Black have promise.
JPJJ has improved and reduced penalties.

That's about it?

I think the OL as a whole, even though it leaked something awful against Houston (a lot of lines do) has the makings of a good OL.

And I think the DL needs a few new people, but it is on its way, too.

Change the schemes, and this team is a lot closer than you think to being high quality.

But of course you then will have to find the QB...is there a Drake Maybe to be had this year?

Garrett Nussmeier, draft experts?

[StillerInCT]

I don't wish him any ill will but I'm not at all sad about this. The last 10 years were an abomination. His approach to offense was so pathetic that I became a massive soccer fan out of boredom. Watching your team play for field position every Sunday while other teams actually try to win games and score points is truly soul sucking as a fan. It was the first time in my life I actually saw an offense that thought points were a sexually transmitted disease.

Outside of Ben, the player most critical to any success we had was our fucking kicker. (No disrespect Boz, you're the GOAT)

So no. I'm not sad. I finally feel something about this franchise again after 10 years of pure numbness. I imagine this is what it feels like to swallow a bottle of Viagra. Fuck whatever the last 10 years was, but I'm fucking back.

[jeemie]

I stayed a Tomlin fan longer than most.

He didn't lose me until that day in New Orleans where Ben and Brown couldn't be stopped...

...and then Mike Tomlin thought he'd be able to turtle away an entire quarter of football with just a four point lead.

His numerous mistakes before then had shaken my faith...but he killed it that day.

[Rod & Wire Mill]

I stayed a Tomlin fan longer than most.

He didn't lose me until that day in New Orleans where Ben and Brown couldn't be stopped...

...and then Mike Tomlin thought he'd be able to turtle away an entire quarter of football with just a four point lead.

His numerous mistakes before then had shaken my faith...but he killed it that day.

I watched that game on an 8 inch portable tv in the laundry room at a truck stop in southern New Mexico. He totally screwed up the endgame every way possible.

[drmalba]

A little sad. Dude won 193 professional football games and a super bowl. That isn't nothing. I wished for him and his legacy he had made a run before riding into the sunset, instead of record-tying playoff ignominy.

I'm not saying it wasn't long past time. I'm not saying he didn't lose me like the rest of you. I'm overall quite content and looking forward to a different future. But there will be a day when the lot of you will put it in perspective, just like the people who were dancing on Cowher's grave eventually did.

[DumlinBumlinStumlin]

A late present under the tree

[Havoc]

I stayed a Tomlin fan longer than most.

He didn't lose me until that day in New Orleans where Ben and Brown couldn't be stopped...

...and then Mike Tomlin thought he'd be able to turtle away an entire quarter of football with just a four point lead.

His numerous mistakes before then had shaken my faith...but he killed it that day.

Same for me, exactly that moment.

I lost my sports mind during the drive at NO in 2018 that started with 15:00 left play... wanted him fired during that drive. I had been waiting for years to see what Tomlin would do in that moment with those variables and I got my answer that day.

Never saw any reason to change my mind since then, and it was getting worse, wasn't feeling good about my Steelers fandom lately for multiple reasons and was even starting to question it for the future.

So, we all get a reset. Please Please Please do not screw this up Steelers.

I'm more interested in an idea than a uniform.

Looking forward to the future with this team, my son is 7 and I want to pass it down to him.

[AirRescueFF]

Zero.

Like I've posted before, the "credit" he gained from his early career success has been far and away used up to the detriment of the organization with the accompanying audacity to never having GROWN OR ADJUSTED to maximize the potential of WINNING.

He can fuck right off until it's enough. Then fuck off some more.

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[Who Dee Knee]

Nope. Not even a lil. And I do t care if the new coach delivers a losing season next year.

I’m sure the media will be all over that. Oh look, new coach and Steelers have their first losing season in 20 years.

I’ll relish it.

Don’t expect the new coach to come in and win with this roster. Going to take a couple years. Especially to get the right QB. Willing to be patient.

Noll left Cowher a few pieces away from a Super Bowl team.
Cowher left Tomlin a Super Bowl team with a franchise QB and dominant D.
Tomlin is leaving the next coach a fucking disaster. A few serviceable pieces to start but alot is needed to do to bring the Steelers back to the Franchise we all know and love.

Yeah, what pieces are even noteworthy?

Good STs in Boz and Waitman.
DK if he's kept.
Washington has promise as a TE2 (need to draft a TE1)
Cook looks promising at LT
Warren/Gainwell are serviceable RBs
Harmon/Black have promise.
JPJJ has improved and reduced penalties.

That's about it?

How about Frazier? ,McCormick? Fautanu? Herbig? Sawyer? Pierre?

[MJG75]

I stayed a Tomlin fan longer than most.

He didn't lose me until that day in New Orleans where Ben and Brown couldn't be stopped...

...and then Mike Tomlin thought he'd be able to turtle away an entire quarter of football with just a four point lead.

His numerous mistakes before then had shaken my faith...but he killed it that day.

With you, Jeemie. I also was on board until around this time. Not sure it was this specific game but it was around this time when we were essentially blown out at home first round playoffs year before in 2017, game over 1st quarter [which would become a trend], and then failing to make the post season at all in 2018. Yeah it was around this time for me that not only did my perspective on Coach start to change, but also how I viewed his past success [07-10].

I am not sad, but do recognize it as a watershed moment in Steelers history. They don't pick head coaches that often, so it is a big deal. They also exhibit an almost insane level of patience, so they really have to get it right or we are in for far worse than 2010-2025 felt like.

[beerbrother]

Not sad at all. Think this was long overdue.

He couldn't/wouldn't improve or adapt to the modern NFL and instead embraced his own shortcomings. His football philosophy was his folly.

- Couldn't count on him to correctly utilize timeouts. (Time Pressure Game against the Raiders one of many.)
- Couldn't count on him to correctly utilize challenge flags. (A streak over a year getting them wrong.)
- Couldn't count on him to hire quality assistant coaches. (Mike Munchak & the Dead Darryl Drake being rare exceptions.)
- Couldn't count on his roster decisions. (Playoffs in Denver without legit RB, the last two seasons without legit WR2.)
- Couldn't count on him to rebuild the team. (Matt Canada & Kenny Pickett give me PTSD.)
- Couldn't count on him to win a playoff game. (Marin Lewis level of futility. All recent games blow out losses.)

So in sum I couldn't count on him to do what was necessary to make the Steelers rise above middling and become competitive. He couldn't/wouldn't change and needed to move on.

[Deebo]

Better than Christmas when I was 5

Or being on Maury Povich when they say you're NOT the father

[jebrick]

Most were not sad when Cowher stepped down after years of frustration. I think most coaches have a 10 year shelf life and the fan base feels worst and worst the longer they are on. It was long overdue for a change

[Mick]

I think Tomlin is/was a good (regular season) coach, and I think most of our struggles in recent years stem from having average or below talent, but it was (past) time.

[StillMadAtSlobber]

A late present under the tree

Is there no Tomliin figure, hung in effigy from a branch?

[StillMadAtSlobber]

I stayed a Tomlin fan longer than most.

He didn't lose me until that day in New Orleans where Ben and Brown couldn't be stopped...

...and then Mike Tomlin thought he'd be able to turtle away an entire quarter of football with just a four point lead.

His numerous mistakes before then had shaken my faith...but he killed it that day.

With you, Jeemie. I also was on board until around this time. Not sure it was this specific game but it was around this time when we were essentially blown out at home first round playoffs year before in 2017, game over 1st quarter [which would become a trend], and then failing to make the post season at all in 2018. Yeah it was around this time for me that not only did my perspective on Coach start to change, but also how I viewed his past success [07-10].

I don't think I waited that long.
I think it was the 2015 AFCCG.
That loss, his retarded conservative offensive philosophy (in the modern NFL) and his inability to have the team ready to beat bad teams was it.

And so many other reasons.

My fingers would go numb trying to list them all.

[jeemie]

I stayed a Tomlin fan longer than most.

He didn't lose me until that day in New Orleans where Ben and Brown couldn't be stopped...

...and then Mike Tomlin thought he'd be able to turtle away an entire quarter of football with just a four point lead.

His numerous mistakes before then had shaken my faith...but he killed it that day.

Same for me, exactly that moment.

I lost my sports mind during the drive at NO in 2018 that started with 15:00 left play... wanted him fired during that drive. I had been waiting for years to see what Tomlin would do in that moment with those variables and I got my answer that day.

Never saw any reason to change my mind since then, and it was getting worse, wasn't feeling good about my Steelers fandom lately for multiple reasons and was even starting to question it for the future.

So, we all get a reset. Please Please Please do not screw this up Steelers.

I'm more interested in an idea than a uniform.

Looking forward to the future with this team, my son is 7 and I want to pass it down to him.

It may have been a combo blow, but I remember now that two games before this was the infamous "we wanted to put time pressure on them" game v the Raiders.

Sandwiched in between was the win over the Patriots which is why it may have taken until New Orleans game to get me off the bandwagon permanently.

2018 was a bad bad year for Tomlin...all his warts were on display and it was the year his whispering into Antonio Brown's ear stopped working.

[sowhat]

i’ve had a huge smile on my face and a giddy up in my step the last 2 days.
i’m proud enough to put on a steeler jersey for the first time in a decade.

[anpsteel]

Ive wanted Tomlin fired since the end of the 2009 season

So-

My only “issue” with his departure is that I’ve spent the better part of 15 years bitching about him, and now I don’t know what to do with all this free time