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and sure! steelers might be in the market for a new secondary coach depending on how this season plays out. mike tomlin would be scooped up as a HC before he even left the building thou so not sure hes a great fit.

good friends and soundbites?

sorry, but any coach who is 84-48 is a lock to remain a coach for a long time. hes never had a losing season including the three straight rebuilding years. and dont listen to the media, the steelers are 8th in points against, 12th in total yards and 4th in sacks this season with what was supposed to be a disaster  (including the switch to tomlins tampa 2 - so yes he has put his stamp on the D since lebeau left).

i wont make you decide between tomlin and chip kelly but the answer is simple for most people.

6ixty wrote:

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i think mccarthy is a good coach.

you can look at it the other way too... was jim schwartz a bad coach or is stafford that bad? john fox got fired with peyton manning? mike smith with ryan? pagano with luck?

 

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 I'm not sure what point you just made.  everyone of these coaches made it far into the playoffs (fox super bowl, smith NFCC, pagano AFCC) until the stopped making it and then got fired.  so if tomlin misses it 3 out of 4 years how does this help your argument?

he's not getting fired, I just didn't appreciate your chip Kelly comments and needed a comeback. but that is mainly due to the Steelers ownership group who hasn't fired a coach since the 60's if they even fired chuck noll (did he retire also?).

I was just wondering if you thought tomlin was a good coach or a product of having very good players and coaches around him.  this was actually an interesting radio segment last Friday on the kanell and russilo show after tomlin made some questionable decisions vs the ravens and one of the host said he wasn't sure if he was but ryan clark came on and was heated.  very defensive for tomlin and went after a caller who said he only got hired cuz of Rooney rule haha.

MFisH wrote:

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he's not getting fired, I just didn't appreciate your chip Kelly comments and needed a comeback. but that is mainly due to the Steelers ownership group who hasn't fired a coach since the 60's if they even fired chuck noll (did he retire also?).

I was just wondering if you thought tomlin was a good coach or a product of having very good players and coaches around him.  this was actually an interesting radio segment last Friday on the kanell and russilo show after tomlin made some questionable decisions vs the ravens and one of the host said he wasn't sure if he was but ryan clark came on and was heated.  very defensive for tomlin and went after a caller who said he only got hired cuz of Rooney rule haha.

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my biggest problem with the coaching during the ravens game was that they didn't give scobee one last chance to win the game with the 49 yarder. i understand not kicking it when youre up or tied and there is time left on the clock, but the fact this one was in OT and had he made it literally won us the game, they should have given him one more chance to save his job.

even so, i have no issue with the play called on that 4th down because AB was wide open. mike vick just missed the throw simple as that. should have def run bell on 3rd thou instead of that stupid sweep.

the steelers have 3 former head coaches on their roster. i agree he is surrounded by great coaches. tomlin and keith butler have this defense playing way above expectations. youre not the first person to bring up this point, but like i said the last 2 years were obviously transition years and to go 8-8 is fine by me. im not sure how many coaches would have done better with what tomlin has had to work with especially on defense.

I completely forgot to talk about the Mich-Mich St. game from Saturday.  I was at a wedding so didn't see the ending live, but OMG what an ending.  I can't think of a worse possible way a team has lost, the only 2 somewhat relatable endings I can come up with would be a combination of bama/aurburn a few years ago when bama tried that long FG but auburn caught it at the back of the endzone and took it back to the house and the eagles/giants game with deseans walk off punt return.  but even both of those games would have went into OT if those final plays didn't happen, this game for Michigan was OVER as long as nothing ridiculously crazy happened, and guess what, something ridiculously crazy happened.  sucks for Michigan, they were up the entire game, vs their rival, and this would have put them in the top 10 and gave them a chance at the playoffs.  now they're pretty much out of it unless a lot of the top teams lose 1-2 games each.

on top of that, the dude who returned the failed punt for the td broke his hip on the play.  you can kind of tell when they started piling on how hurt he was, he was pushing guys off of him and you could tell he was in pain.  how bad does that suck for him?  he could have came home a hero and gotten laid every night, but now he is in a wheel chair for 3 months and by the time he is healed the season will be over and become just another player haha. 

umm wow...

Penn State lost kicker Quinn Nordin to Michigan, officially after Jim Harbaugh slept over at the prospect's house ... in Quinn's sister's room. (The sister was not home, Harbaugh clarified.) What does Franklin think of certain coaches' more unique recruiting strategies? "We want to be creative, not creepy," he said

who's everyone's final 4?

I got Kansas, OK, Kentucky and Mich State with Mich State winning it all

6ixty wrote:

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no way... smh thats the same as mine

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 .  this is you:

(it's a copy cat)

you better change it in pauls bracket, I'm not trying to tie you for 1st and have you brag that you won it all again

minnow!