Tomlin a great coach?

Any goal without a plan is just a wish.Tomlin has the responsibility to set a plan and execute it with the best resources available (players). I believe he has the leadership and skills to do it. He will be a great coach, he is still learning from his mistakes and from the different scenarios and adversity he is facing every weekend. We will win more superbowls in the future, He already has one.

Until proven otherwise. He’s done something that only a handful of active coaches have done and that’s win a super bowl. You can tell me that he’s got a great collection of talent but truthfully that’s true of a lot of teams. Take San Diego for example… Every year people drool over the talent level of San Diego, and yet they have not won a super bowl. It is a difficult thing to do. Heck making the playoffs is difficult to do and Mike Tomlin has done it in his first two years running and unless the collapse continues he’ll do it again.

One of the important things that I’m learning this season is that greatness is not reactive. A great team is often a stable team. Very seldom does it work to implement an offense and have it just work from go. The NFL is too good for that. You might win some games here and there but you’ll get exposed pretty often too. We’re in the third year of Bruce Arians’ “There will never be a fullback in my offense” offense. And I know that there are many many people out there that hate our run/pass ratio and all the rest. But we’re putting up better offensive numbers than we have for a long time. And all those players I wanted to be rid of last year? They’re playing decently this year, sometimes they’re playing really well.

For example: Willie Colon? He causes 4-5 ulcers a game last year. This year? He’s turning into a right tackle I’m glad to have on my team. Rashard Mendenhall? He’s looking pretty solid right now too.

I still HATE some of the situational play calls that BA makes. I really don’t mind the over all trends of play calling. It makes sense and seems to work pretty well. But I agree with all the ire over the 3 and 2 call. In some ways I wish we could Jim Zorn Arians next year. Let him design the offense and all that, but game-day play calling would go to someone with some more feel for situational football.

I think in some ways you should treat offensive and defensive schemes like draft picks. They’re aren’t gradable until the third or fourth year. You need to let the players learn the schemes and adjust to them. I think it’s obvious that our QB and receivers are adjusting and getting very good in this scheme. I do feel like we’re ready for a change at Special Teams coaching. We’re just not seeing the success in that department you’d like out of your coaching staff. I would be shocked if Tomlin doesn’t make that change in the off-season.

Back to the point… Tomlin’s in a situation where he doesn’t have to be reactive. He can wait out these storms of criticism and let it develop. Currently I assume him to be great based on his one win that matters last year.

and imparts that to his players. They just need to tighten up the ST and when playing with the lead, take a little air outta the pigskin. Play the percentages a little bit more. He’ll learn about this stuff. Without some pretty major injuries, I doubt we’d be less than 8-2 right now even with the freakin ST screw-ups.

Ok, question answered. Seriously, time will tell. But I like his chances.