Mike Tomlin's a Dumb Bitch

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Do The Steelers Protect Tomlin From Aggressive Media Questions?

Does the entire media do this?

Yes, yes they do. They control the messaging.

Look at the NFL from Goodell's perspective. I think the Steelers don't have autonomy with this idiot, and the media is forced to continue the endless conveyor belt Obama-like hagiography with Coach Mike.

It's not unlike how the WWF operates with their "sports entertainment" personalities.

This is part of the reason why Coach is welded into his position.

Once he's expendable, he can go.

[RemoAZ]

https://www.steelernation.com/2023/10/0 ... mits-sucks
Tomlin got his hooks deep into the hiring process after Haley’s contract expired in 2018. It has been a disaster ever since. The Steelers have not had competent coordinators since the end of the 2018 season. The five-year period that has followed has produced the worst stretch of Steelers football since the 1980s. The results are that Tomlin’s seat curiously has only been warm on social media.

Do The Steelers Protect Tomlin From Aggressive Media Questions?
Donny Football
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It’s alright, no hard questions coming for Mike Tomlin. Don’t get your hopes up for a fiery press conference. And that’s not on the media. The Steelers protect Tomlin. He’s untouchable and he knows it. Any hard questions get you permanently put in their doghouse.

Last week, Tomlin admitted to making up an answer at a press conference because he was tired of answering the same question. Are the Steelers possibly engaging in some not-so-subtle shenanigans to protect Tomlin?

It is hard to believe that savvy media personalities with large platforms, like Mark Kaboly from The Athletic or Brooke Pryor from ESPN, would sit still for that type of treatment. It does beg the question of why the media fawns over Tomlin. Is it all just a scripted show? If a reporter dares to ask the wrong question, are they chastised behind closed doors?

However, if reporters stop asking tough questions under threat of losing access, the fans lose faith, and more importantly, we lose the unvarnished truth. Say it ain't so, Mr Rooney. Somebody please say it ain't so.

I had a casual friend, guy I played softball with for several years. Good guy, everyone that knew him, liked him. Sadly was taken away way too soon. Anyway, he worked in our local sports media, radio and television, and had credentials to attend Cowher’s weekly Tuesday pressers. He rarely was called on to ask questions, but on one occasion he was called upon. He asked an innocent question about the play of a certain defensive player in that weeks game, a loss. Cowher didn’t like the question and berated him for it in front of his colleagues, and he was permanently barred from any future Steelers media functions. True story!

Complete bull shit and it's definitely happening now. The only difference is they probably have to be careful how the ban people because it would get blasted all over social media. It just baffles me how this guy has snowed everyone except us die hard fans that actually care about winning. I firmly believe the other teams personnel just pump him up to keep the team down because they know he really sucks but the rest of the media have to know he's completely over his head. Why does no one call him out on his coaching tree? He's developed ZERO coaches in 17 years. That's crazy and has to be a record at like half those years. That one stat alone tells you all you need to know about his ability to be an NFL head coach.

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Why does no one call him out on his coaching tree? He's developed ZERO coaches in 17 years. That's crazy and has to be a record at like half those years. That one stat alone tells you all you need to know about his ability to be an NFL head coach.

The Teflon is thick.

One can certainly speculate why he’s given a pass while other coaches with better postseason records get criticized.

Shit, the man who signs his very hefty paycheck is on record that he doesn’t even evaluate Jibbs.

Just happy as heck he’s our guy. And the beat goes on.

[RemoAZ]

Fillipponi: 'Why won't people listen when I say repeatedly that Tomlin is an overrated coach?'
https://www.audacy.com/937thefan/sports ... ated-coach?

“Why won’t people listen when I say repeatedly that Tomlin is an overrated coach,” Fillipponi said (28:15 in player above). “He hasn’t won a playoff game since 2016. They just lost by 24 to the Texans with a rookie head coach and a quarterback starting his fourth game. They’re not going to win a playoff game this year; that’ll be seven in a row.”

The Steelers haven’t won a playoff game since reaching the AFC Championship Game in 2016. Much of Tomlin’s success came early in his Steelers tenure with a star-studded roster.

Now, the roster that he has hand-picked isn’t meeting those expectations.

“He wanted this quarterback. He wanted a running back in the first round two years ago. He employs the worst offensive coordinator,” Fillipponi continued. “He has not hired an innovative, young, enterprising, forward-thinking offensive coordinator since he’s been the head coach here in 2007. And the national media, finally, is starting to catch on to it.”

Fillipponi likened Tomlin’s tenure to that of Bill Belichick in New England. While Belichick seems to have lost a step without Tom Brady, he’s still one of the best coaches of all time and has the rings to prove it.

“Belichick and Tomlin are very, very similar. It’s interesting to me that Belichick gets murdered, as he should, but that guy’s got six Super Bowls; this guy’s got one. But because they limped their way to 8-8 or 9-8, he gets credit at the end of the day,” he said. “He builds the roster here. He picks the team. I thought (Sunday) was a failure of his regime at this point. You go to a place like Houston and you’re completely non-competitive (Sunday) afternoon.”

“There are very few defensive head coaches that are winning in today’s NFL,” Fillipponi continued. “I think the game’s passed him by, honestly. He’s been here for a long time. He’s not the young, cool, hip, young coach anymore.”

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Belichick and Tomlin are very, very similar.

LOL

[RemoAZ]

Blitzburgh
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Texans Steven Nelson says the Steelers Offense is Extremely Predictable: “Watching what they do, what they were successful at. They hit the same player, same formation look like last week, they scored the touchdown versus Vegas. And I was ready for it. Recognizing the formation and the play who they run the post with, and it just allowed me to go out there and make a play on the ball.” #Steelers #NFL

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Daniel Valente
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The difference between the Steelers & the NFL’s best offense is insane:

The Dolphins have scored a TD in 20 of their 47 drives (42.6%).

At their current rate, it would take the Steelers 249 drives to score 20 TDs.

Miami playing chess. Steelers still trying to print their name.

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Why does no one call him out on his coaching tree? He's developed ZERO coaches in 17 years. That's crazy and has to be a record at like half those years. That one stat alone tells you all you need to know about his ability to be an NFL head coach.

The Teflon is thick.

One can certainly speculate why he’s given a pass while other coaches with better postseason records get criticized.

Shit, the man who signs his very hefty paycheck is on record that he doesn’t even evaluate Jibbs.

Just happy as heck he’s our guy. And the beat goes on.

While it is very disheartening, I've said it a bazillion times-

Art is going to do whatever tf Art wants to do, unless and until, it starts impacting their pockets.

It is going to take the Fans not showing up.

They can't sell their tickets to someone else. They can't give them away.

The fans need to no show for about 2 or 3 games.

A half empty stadium. That will get dipshit Art's attention.

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You are all welcome to the non-fan club of Coach Mickey T Worthless! I said it from the very beginning (Day 1) that this was a lousy hire and would set the Steelers back for years. Now, I need to amend that to decades! He is a narcissistic dipshit who has worked more on his "supposed" vocabulary than his acumen to be a good coach. We now know what the Browns have felt for so very long - the pain and anger is real! Until he is removed, this team will go nowhere. I doubt that they even make the playoffs for the next 5 years regardless of talent. Hell, I doubt we make the playoff until Tomlin decides to hang it up, which I hope is real soon. It's amazing that announcers still refer to Tomlin as the Gold Standard to coaching - I puked in my mouth a little when I heard that! No respectable good coach will come here as it is a dead end job - so we are stuck with guys who wouldn't be hired by any other team in the league. They know how this organization works. The FO will protect Tomlin as he throws everyone else under the bus. It's always someone else's fault but his. He's pure shit and always has been!

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A half empty stadium. That will get dipshit Art's attention.

The 49ers kinda made it a half-empty stadium.