Oct 3, 2015 - A Very Good day for the Steelers and a Great one for Tomlin

[Stillerz Bar]

The Steelers signed Tomlin's security blanket 10 years age today.

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Bos has been both a blessing and a curse. Except for the one season where he had a groin pull, he's been pretty much a guaranteed 3 points. Unfortunately, Tomlin often plays turtle ball once they cross the 35 because he knows how good Bos is.

[BouldernBun]

Chris Boswell is probably the only guy on the current roster that has a chance of being a member of our next Super Bowl winning team. Barring injury he could kick until he is fifty and that is what it might take to get another ring. All Hail. Year in and year out he is about the only thing we don't have to worry about.

[stillthere]

Chris Boswell is probably the only guy on the current roster that has a chance of being a member of our next Super Bowl winning team. Barring injury he could kick until he is fifty and that is what it might take to get another ring. All Hail. Year in and year out he is about the only thing we don't have to worry about.

I am considering a jersey.

[W&M_Steeler]

The Steelers signed Tomlin's security blanket 10 years age today.

https://share.google/Si7mdjNlOYC9Jmpnl

Bos has been both a blessing and a curse. Except for the one season where he had a groin pull, he's been pretty much a guaranteed 3 points. Unfortunately, Tomlin often plays turtle ball once they cross the 35 because he knows how good Bos is.

Boz is great as a player, but in retrospect I wish he had gone elsewhere. He is perhaps the player most responsible for keeping Tomlin's NHALS streak going and enabling the Tomlinball approach of 9-10 ugly wins a year.

2018 makes this most clear. Without a healthy Boz, Tomlin wasn't even able to get a team with Hall of Famers on both sides of the ball (Ben in his last prime year, AB, TJ, and Cam) into the playoffs. 2018 was a down year for the league in general (that was the year with the Pats-Rams 13-3 Super Bowl), and those Steelers should have been a prime contender (they beat the Pats late in the season). But Boz was gimpy and not automatic, so Tomlin's typical approach was missing a key component.

In 2018, Tomlin had Ben, AB, TJ, Cam, rookie JuJu, Tuitt, Haden, an O-Line that was still good, and other key contributors, but without Boz he just couldn't win the close games his bizarre Tomlinball approach routinely creates. The team had a midseason collapse against two mediocre / bad teams (6-10 Broncos and 4-12 Raiders, with a close loss to the 12-4 Chargers in the middle) and missed out on tiebreakers (would have been the 7th seed had it existed then). That 2018 team should have at least won the division (Ravens were only 10-6 that year) and made a deep playoff run, but, without automatic Boz, they missed the playoffs.

Tomlin should have been fired after 2018 (a midseason collapse on the heels of the 2017 Jacksonville fiasco). But he kept his job, and Boz and defense kept Tomlin afloat in 2019 after Ben went down. We've been in purgatory ever since. Give Tomlin a league-average kicker from 2019-2024 and he probably would have had 3 or 4 losing seasons and we'd be rid of him by now. But Boz allows him to grind out ugly wins like the Week 1 Jets game this year or Week 1 Falcons last year, which does just enough to maintain NHALS.

[Texas Black & Gold]

Honestly, if my memory serves me correct, I think Tomlin should have lost his job shortly after the SB loss in 2011. It took me a few years but I have come to terms with his lifetime appoint to the HC position.
So I will stay positive and optimistic that he will be able to assemble another Superbowl caliber team.

Here We Go Steelers

[RealSwiss]

Somewhere along the way, I believe it was decided that having Tomlin as the winningest Steelers coach and maybe NFL was an admirable goal. He’s getting close to Noll. Rooney Rule to the moon.

In many circles, being associated with Tomlins “success” is likely more valuable than multiple Lombardis.

Lifetime appointment may very well be the case.

Honestly, if my memory serves me correct, I think Tomlin should have lost his job shortly after the SB loss in 2011. It took me a few years but I have come to terms with his lifetime appoint to the HC position.
So I will stay positive and optimistic that he will be able to assemble another Superbowl caliber team.

Here We Go Steelers

[955876]

In many circles, being associated with Tomlins “success” is likely more valuable than multiple Lombardis.

If true, we are doomed. ,

Certainly feels that’s where the bar has been set though.

Jibbs will always be just good enough. And more importantly, is safe.

Dunce is chickenshit.