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Maybe that is because without those losses we could still afford to blow this Sunday's game without worrying about a playoff game in Gillette stadium.
I continue to find the Tomlin worship/Tomlin hate to be the oddest dynamic on this board. It is possible to recognize that Tomlin is a very good coach that we are lucky to have and also to criticize him for shortcomings, such as not having this team ready to play a team like the Bears.Comment
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Mike Tomlin turning up the heat on Patriots-Steelers
Posted by Darin Gantt on December 12, 2017, 3:15 PM EST
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin never backed away from hyping up their game with the Patriots.
If anything, he’s fanning the flames now.
Tomlin was embracing the build-up Tuesday, which is probably appropriate since he started it.
“It’s good to be in the kitchen. The kitchen’s in Pittsburgh, PA, this week in the National Football League, and at Heinz Field,” Tomlin said, via Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com. “That’s where you want to be in the middle of December. We don’t take it for granted.”
The Steelers coach has been talking up this matchup for three weeks, so it’s hard to turn away from the chatter now.
The Steelers (11-2) can take a big step toward home-field advantage in the AFC playoffs with a win, but so can the Patriots (10-3). And while many coaches strive to make things as boring as possible before big games, Tomlin said he wasn’t going to shield his players from it, saying: “Man, I love it.”
“It’s good to be in big games. It’s better to be in big games than ones nobody’s watching,” Tomlin said. “We better be appreciative of this spot and not resistant in any way, but embrace it. This is what we’ve been fighting for since March, to be in these types of games against these types of people. Why would you fight that? It’s an awesome thing.”
It’s an interesting strategy, and frankly, one we wish more coaches would adopt. It beats chopping wood and controlling what you can control.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/12/12/mike-tomlin-turning-up-the-heat-on-patriots-steelers/Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.Comment
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Here We Go Steelers, Here We Go...
Here We Go Steelers, Here We Go...
Here We Go Steelers, Here We Go...!!!Comment
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only took 11 yearssteelers = 3 ring circus with tomlin being the head clownComment
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Tomlin denies that the Steelers were looking ahead to the Patriots
Posted by Mike Florio on December 13, 2017, 2:59 PM EST
Last month, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin looked past three opponents to the Patriots, and then he looked past the rest of the regular season and the divisional round to a rematch in the AFC title game.
Now, Tomlin claims that neither he nor anyone else with the Steelers ever did that.
“I don’t know that any of us were looking ahead to be quite honest with you,” Tomlin said during a conference call with Patriots media. “That’s the way it was described by you guys. We were simply answering questions. We were doing our professional due diligence. When we do interviews and people ask us about potential big games down the road, we’re going to politely answer questions and do so honestly. That’s not us looking down the road. That’s us simply performing our professional duties.”
On the surface, that’s just not true. Players and coaches routinely insist that they take their season one game at a time. Tomlin’s departure from that approach is what made his words so glaring. At a deeper level, Tomlin may have been taking a subtle (or not) shot at the on-to-Cincinnati habits of Patriots coach Bill Belichick, who will never, ever talk about any game other than the next one.
“I’m going to embrace the elephant in the room,” Tomlin told NBC’s Tony Dungy during an interview televised during the November 26 edition of Football Night in America. “There’s going to be fireworks. But it’s probably going to be part one. You know? . . .
“You’ll burn more fuel trying to pretend like that doesn’t exist than just to acknowledge the elephant in the room. Man, that’s going to be a big game. But probably if we’re both doing what we’re supposed to do, the second one is really going to be big and what happens in the first is going to set up the second one. It’s going to determine the location of the second one. You know?”
Tomlin, who also declared during the interview that the Steelers “should win it all,” initially explained his remarks by claiming that Dungy asked for “non-coachspeak,” a request I am officially making on a blanket basis as to all coaches who are interviewed by me or anyone else at any point in the future.
Indeed, it will be interesting to see if Tomlin or other Steelers decide during interviews or press conferences to at all times “politely answer questions and do so honestly.” If Tomlin ever agrees to be interviewed by PFT Live (he’s declined invitations on multiple occasions, and I won’t be holding my breath when the next request is made), I’ll get a chance to assess his politeness and honesty directly.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/12/13/tomlin-denies-that-the-steelers-were-looking-ahead-to-the-patriots/Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.Comment
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