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I'm ready for a change... we know what the brass has currently and time for a new crewComment
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How is it possible to have the best owner, best front office, best gm, best HC, good/great drafts every year and good FA acquisitions every year, but only have 3 playoff wins in 14 years?Comment
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Did anyone notice ( probably not because it was so late ) That Belicheat was chewing somebody's Ass out on the last series of the game, also... Belicheat and Marsha were looking at notes and Ipads the ENTIRE game, which they dominated...
The losing team, Tomlin and Ben never looked at anything... Popcorn just stood there with his arms crossed...Is he just to cool, or does he have a mind like a Computer? Or both!Comment
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Is that what you think I wrote?
This is what I said.
I think after Ben retires we'll most likely be bad (walking by those trophies doesn't help with poor talent). I think this because I believe that talent on the field is more important than coaching.I also think we probably keep Tomlin into the next GM so that he can be fired by the new GM when / if the post-Ben rebuild doesn't do well in the short term. Assuming that Tomlin doesn't want to retire as well.
I think Tomlin is a good coach who has proven that he can do as well or better than all but the best coach in history when he has a good QB.
I don't think he will be consistently competitive without a good QB, because I don't think that's possible in today's NFL (except maybe by BB). I think the days of seeing success with a Cowher style team that has consistently great D & 3 yards and a cloud of dust offense are gone (but it worked well at the time).
So, I think we won't do all that well under Tomlin during the rebuild after Ben unless maybe Rudolph turns out to be a franchise QB (I don't think he will just based on the percentages). Though maybe he keeps us in the mediocre 7 - 9 win range.
By then, we'll have a new GM (as least I assume as much since Colbert only wants to go year to year). It makes sense for new GMs to keep old coaches so they have someone to fire when (if?) their team doesn't do well in the short term. Since I think very good QBs are hard to find, I don't think we'll do well after Ben retires.
I guess an argument for firing Tomlin right after Ben retires would be that it might be easier to tank that way. It's not what I think the team will do, but I think it would be a reasonable choice. Keeping Tomlin after Ben might mean that we end up consistently mediocre at 7 - 9 wins instead of sinking to 4 - 6 wins or something. I don't think the Rooney's will endorse going full tank, but it's probably the best way to get a good QB. If this was the plan, I think we would handle our current cap situation differently by spending large and setting up a bunch of dead money 2 or 3 seasons from now when we assume Ben will be gone.Last edited by Northern_Blitz; 09-11-2019, 08:37 AM.Comment
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This won't happen unless the bottom dweller has a good QB. You can't be as good as we've been without one.
But the data says that coaches with QBs in the same league as Ben tend not to do better than Tomlin has.
I think that suggests that expectations are out of whack. I think this makes sense because the Pats screw up people's expectations.Comment
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This. This.
The cheaters have screwed up everyone's expectations. You take them out of the equation and Tomlin isn't nearly as criticized. It's supposed to be hard to win a super bowl. It is hard to win a super bowl. Unless you're the cheaters.
Something still doesn't smell right to me with that organization. Yeah, they're smart with good players. But history says they're doing more than just that. They have 6 rings with 9 appearances since 2000. That's insane and it makes for insane expectations.Comment
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