Mike Tomlin and the Steelers are too Comfortable With Mediocrity.

[@the_familyjules]

Finally: My take on Mike Tomlin has arrived. The guy has lost his edge and is definitely a comfort zone coach. I get that winning seasons are a tradition in Pittsburgh and for us Steeler fans…but what’s also becoming a tradition is being the tallest of the midgets and getting bounced in the first round of the playoffs. What good is a winning season when not one opponent you face in the playoffs is worried about you?

[@the_familyjules]

You can blame Kevin Colbert in this situation by the way he’s the reason we have whiffed so badly historically

[@putmeincoachpod2024]

So well said, man. It's becoming the guy at work who does just enough to not get fired, but never really feels like an asset lol. He's better than this.

[@ChewsCarefully]

You know how Sean McVay gets The Most out of almost all his players but (felt he) couldn't do so with Goff & how people conflate winning with QB greatness? When trying to figure out wtf is going on in PIT you have to separate things out. Tomlin is a people _person!_ This makes his players want to like him. But he's no leader at all. His coaches walk all over him secure that nothing they do will get them fired & this is why diva players turn it up 12 billion % when there. Without an alpha male in the group, everyone becomes a 12-year-old who doesn't comprehend what's over the line. They keep drafting high level o-line talent & the o-line gets worse. He didn't fire Matt Canada when we all saw & heard him say that their offense was *incapable of mounting comeback wins **_after they had done so 4 times already_* nor will he firs the o-line coach who already has a history of making his o-lines progressively worse. *_IS_*_ he_ worried about how people think of him too much? Maybe. But none of this _really_ matters. He's a counsellor, not a leader.

[@putmeincoachpod2024]

Right, well said. He’s always been a likable guy. I don’t think his team has EVER quit on him. It’s just… stale? There’s no progress in Pittsburgh anymore.

[@ChewsCarefully]

@@putmeincoachpod2024 No one wants to work for Jerry Jones or Dave Tepper. Or so they think. Sadly, when not held accountable by anyone, most people just lose all their incentive. Doing the task well isn't enough on its own. Within those two extremes you have every aspect of humanity. There have been & always will be coaches who get jealous of their players. Who's that flashy kicker who is great but no NFL team will interview him because he makes videos & gets attention? How tf is that more important than winning games? Everyone seems to have forgotten that the Only Reason last year's S-B went into OT at all was one missed extra point. _That's_ how close S-F came to winning it. I focus on this stuff because it determines much. Sometimes it hampers a team's chances, others it removes them. That article about Sean McDermott no one is being sued for libel over? Yeah, it paints a portrait of a man who would rather lose doing everything His Way than win. He can't stand the pressures of winning. *He* & not Dorsey calls the plays that force Allen to play hero-ball. If it were Dorsey, then those plays would have ceased when he was fired. They only reduced in frequency somewhat. This indicates that people in the Bills organization have figured out some way to reduce this but not end it entirely. I don't know if it's the new OC who acts more like his boss than the reverse - I've seen stuff like this play out in the workplace where the boss likes it when others take charge, or what, but either way they haven't fully stopped this. Now they've gotten rid of their One Deep Threat. Was this part of the intervention to try to stop this habit of his? & have they shot themselves in the foot removing all their deep threats just to stop this? Allen still has an arm. But does he no longer have viable targets?