KC wrote:Is there anybody here that thinks Tomlin deserves to be the coach next year if we miss the playoffs again this fucking season?
Yes.
The management of this team sticks by their head coaches, through thick and thin. I hope that continues to be the case after Dan Rooney has concluded his life's work. That's the only thing that I'm really worried about. His son might not run things in the same manner that he has, and that would be a change for the worse IMO.
I'm sure there's only 1 NFL team who can boast the following about EVERY head coach they have had since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger:
(1) An overall winning record in all regular-season games coached
(2) And playoff appearances following more than half of the seasons coached
(3) And an overall winning record in all post-season games coached
(4) And at least 1 super bowl championship.
As a wiser fella than myself once said, "The standard is the standard."
Mike Tomlin, like Cowher and Noll, has all 4 of these criteria covered at present. (If they fail to make a playoff appearance next season, criterion #2 won't be on his resume for at least a year following that, but he will be given an opportunity to put it back on there.)
If you look at the other 31 teams, I wonder which other team would have the fewest head coaches who failed to meet all 4 of those criteria over their tenure. Probably Houston, since they are the youngest team, and therefore they may not have had very many head coaches since the merger. New England? Dallas? Miami? I don't know how to interpret the data with respect to the Ravens/Browns franchises. I guess the old Browns and Ravens are the same team, and the new Browns are a new team, like Houston? Anyway, all teams except us have had multiple coaches who have not lived up to these lofty standards. At least 4 coaches for each team other than us who haven't achieved to these standards? I obviously haven't done the research for the other teams, but the Steelers organization is by far the best franchise in terms of hiring and keeping successful head coaches, and not hiring head coaches who consistently put out bad or mediocre teams.
The Steelers are the NFL model of coaching stability and success, if you measure back to the merger, which was not long after Dan Rooney started calling the shots.
I expect Tomlin to have a long and distinguished career in Pittsburgh, and never to work for any other franchise afterwards.
To misquote a quotable man, "Every morning when I come to work, I walk past 6 Lombardi trophies, not 5 Lombardi trophies."
“ But Brian was the quarterback. He lay on the ground like a sniper had shot him, so they threw me out. It’s big entertainment now, protect the quarterback, $200 to your favorite charity.”
