Still Lit wrote:955876 wrote:Still Lit wrote:60% of the fans on this board are hysterical douche bags.
Tomlin and co got to the AFCCG and proceeded to shit the bed and roll around in it. It was an indefensible game plan.
Only reactionary emotive types call for cleaning house on a staff that just lost a conf championship.
Arrow has been pointed up for four straight seasons.
The angst is that Tomlin will have learned nothing from this.
Whatever is going on, the team has been improving.
Or it's just all luck and we should fire Tomlin.
If the game plan was indefensible how do you defend the very person who was A ok with said game plan?
The biggest problem with Tomlin isn't his mistakes, it's his complete inability or refusal to recognize those mistakes and grow from them.
So if he refuses to learn from these repeated mistakes then how can we remain confident with him at the helm?
These are fair questions IMO and far from "reactive emotive" type of response.
Tomlin would have had a great shot at a championship if Houston beats NE and the rookie Prescott makes it through the NFC. Hoping others will do the job you can't isnt strategy it's dumb luck.
My god. I don't understand how some of you can so excel at math and be so miserable at logic. They share many of the same rules.
Whether you agree or not, 95, I can claim the Pats game was an indefensible abortion and simultaneously claim that Tomlin did not have a fireable season bc the entire season did not consist of the AFCCG. If you're interested in the pricinple that allows for this astounding claim it's called the principle of non-contradiction.
I repeat:
2013 8-8
2014: WC Loss
2015: Div Loss
2016: AFCCG Loss
2017: ?
Clearly the last three seasons are disasters. No proof of improvement at all..
Will Tomlin learn how to prepare for the Pats? I sure hope so.
You are jumping on my logic while having some flaws in your own. The team has improved. I see the progression you posted. But that improvement in the team is based in multiple factors. Not just Tomlin improving. And here's the thing, a team can only go so far when the difference between winning & losing comes down to coaching more than it does the players.
And while the team has improved, we still have a coach that co to use to make very questionable decisions. And not just this past Sunday.
Mike Tomlin chose to go for 2 at the tail end of a game where kicking an extra point was CLEARLY the right call. Failing to convert the 2-pointer meant a FG by the opposing team could either tie or win the game.
Now it worked out in the end. But it easily could not have. So how does a coach even make that call? All risk for very little reward? Then gives us the abortion of a gameplan we all watched vs the Pats.
I understand your line of thinking that the season and his ongoing employment shouldn't come down to one game. The season overall can be viewed as a "success" given the progression you cited.
And none of that is really my point or what I'm basing MY OPINION on. And my opinion is based upon the very fact that I no longer belive MT is the man for the job. He lacks some critical things thatbif he doesn't have them this deep into his HC career he likely will never have them.
Let's jump to the business world. There are lots of executive and/or sales types that deliver "results" similar to what we are getting from Tomlin. Year over year revenue is up. Sales are up. Profitability is up. Etc etc etc. And said executive might have gotten a promotion or two based on those results. And if things fall into place or something breaks to the positive said person might have a banner year.
But the company is at a crossroads. And said person despite the success is a raging alcoholic. They still get the job done but will they always be able to moving forward. Maybe they stop drinking. Maybe they cut back. And maybe they don't. It's called a functioning alcoholic.
To me, MT has become that functioning alcoholic. He's good enough to get the basics of his job done in most cases but fails to really excel when it's needed most due to their own internal issues.
A 10 year NFL coach that stillborches when to kick an xtp or go for two is always going to get outsmarted by the coaches who really know how to X & O.
Had Ben & Holmes not pulled out one historic drive to win a game MT is 0-2 in the SB along with owning the dubious honor of having his defense blow the largest 4th quarter lead in history.
This from a "defensive minded" coach.
We can agree to disagree here. Because we do in no way means my logic is flawed while yours is sound.
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