Tomlin not Rooney fired Bruce!

[Steelhere10]

Ok now , any more questions.. For the ones that doubted MT.

[Oviedo]

The only ones who ever doubted MT are the ones who will never accept his hiring in the first place for whatever perceptions they have. MT has been nothing but a great choice for a coach for the Steelers.

[Crash]

I like Tomlin and I still don't buy it.

He's being a good soldier here, a company man. He's not going to admit that his owner stepped on his toes and overruled him.

[Steelhere10]

You could be right Crash, but from the interview transcript it seemed genuine to me. He also said Haley was also his choice.

[Crash]

Haley was "his choice" after a nudge from Art II.

If Tomlin had HIS way BA would still be here.

[feltdizz]

The only ones who ever doubted MT are the ones who will never accept his hiring in the first place for whatever perceptions they have. MT has been nothing but a great choice for a coach for the Steelers.

who needs facts when we have cold hard opinions to rely on?

[Sugar]

Haley was "his choice" after a nudge from Art II.

If Tomlin had HIS way BA would still be here.

That's an interesting statement- I'm curious as to why you would think that.

[Crash]

That's an interesting statement- I'm curious as to why you would think that.

Because Tomlin told BA more than once that he wanted him back. He also told BA in front of his fellow assistants that he wanted him back.

Do you really think that Tomlin, by choice, would stab BA in the back like that, thus showing his own assistants that they can trust anything their boss says to them?

Think!

[toddjammin]

I like Mike Tomlin as a coach and think he has done an excellent job. However, I do agree with Crash that Art Rooney probably did push Tomlin to have Arians fired. this is just my humble opinion though.

[Oviedo]

Because Tomlin told BA more than once that he wanted him back. He also told BA in front of his fellow assistants that he wanted him back.

Do you really think that Tomlin, by choice, would stab BA in the back like that, thus showing his own assistants that they can trust anything their boss says to them?

Think!

So Tomlin can never change his mind or alter plans???????

[Sugar]

So Tomlin can never change his mind or alter plans???????

That's really what I'm thinking. There's really no conspiracy needed here. Tomlin felt one way immediately post-season and then was able to evaluate the situation more carefully. That seems more likely to me than that he was somehow pressured when both he and Rooney have indicated that he was not.

[Eddie Spaghetti]

The only ones who ever doubted MT are the ones who will never accept his hiring in the first place for whatever perceptions they have. MT has been nothing but a great choice for a coach for the Steelers.

and yet he continues to keep the senile lebeau around to underachieve on defense year after year.

weird.

[Sugar]

and yet he continues to keep the senile lebeau around to underachieve on defense year after year.

weird.

Yeah, that Defense that despite the musical chairs at Linebacker somehow managed to be a top 5 D. CRAZY!

[RuthlessBurgher]

Who did it, why they did it, when they did, etc. are all meaningless at this point. It happened. BA's not here and TH is.

It's as pointless as trying to argue whether or not Dan Rooney was responsible for the Roethlisberger pick, or if it was Tomlin who decided on Worilds over Sean Lee. We'll never know the real answer to these things, so why do we continue to debate them anyway? At this point, the facts are the only things that matter, not speculation. The facts are that Haley is a Steeler (Arians is not), Ben is a Steeler (Shawn Andrews is not), and Worilds is a Steeler (Sean Lee is not)...does it really matter how those things might have come to pass (since we'll never know for sure anyway?)

[toddjammin]

I'm actually excited to see how Todd Haley will run our offense. I predict we will be in the top 10 in scoring this year if Haley utilizes all of our talents on offense.