Mike Tomlin Won't Be Coach of the Year....but he won't care.

And let’s remember that BMAC is terrific in run support and he’s going to be pressed into service Sunday. He could have a big day against Denver.

On the coaching. Have to wonder how long they can keep Butler with the team. He’s highly coveted. I assume they have an agreement with him……

This guy really know how to move up the game. If he’s not the coach of the year obviously he won’t care nor do I. He’s always there as a great coach. I’ve read a book “From athletes to business” and I exactly know this guy is smart enough to get over everything.

whiners as hell

Well written!

As far as I’m concerned you can’t say enough about Coach T often enough. And while I should just be content with the fact that much of the Nation appreciates him, I do admit that I get frustrated when he is generally taken for granted and underappreciated both nationally and by too many of our own.

Successfully building and developing a team; cultivating the talent and mindset necessary to have a chance to triumph is not easy. People rarely do it well and certainly not consistently well. Maybe its because we don’t see that 95% of which you speak. He just stands placidly on the sidelines, seemingly not doing anything in particular. And that’s because the hay was placed in the barn long ago. Regardless of how far this team goes in the playoffs, they’ll give it to someone else (Harbaugh probably). Thanks for reminding us to appreciate and celebrate his work, also of the injustice involved in ignoring him.

And btw, Happy New Year.

It was a combination of his being both a pothead and a shithead.

He was about to begin a four game league imposed suspension for drug use in his final year before FA when he was traded.

The team leadership (Ward, Farrior, ASmith, etc) had had enough of him and his distractions. So had the coaching staff. I don’t recall anyone objecting to getting rtid of Holmes, but I do recall some concern about Holmes’ treatment versus that of Ben.

The decision was made from on high to put Ben on double secret probation, suspend him (I will go to my grave positive that the Rooneys were behind the suspension), and give him a life coach and all the support he needed to turn his life around. It seems to have worked.

One reason we love the Steelers is there are so many men of great character on this team. And, as Potsie, Hines, Aaron, and that generation age, we see not just young money, but young clubhouse gold. Ziggy, Cam, ABrown, Cortez Allen, Baron Batch, and so many of the younger guys are worthy of the trust and adulation of Steeler Nation.

If you will indulge me an exquisite line of bullshit, the Steelers have leaders and leaders-in-waiting. The prime time guys (Woodley, Troy, etc) and the young guys (see above) are just that good. “From generation to generation,” as the good book says.

And Holmes – with his me-first attitude didn’t fit in. This year’s team faced incredible adversity and stuck together because they worked together, helped each other (vets took time to coach the younger players), and sacrificed ego and selfishness for the good of the team.

Of course, they didn’t have the cap money to pay him at the end of last year. And I don’t think you can check yourself in at Betty Ford or Hazeldon for being an asshole. If you could, both places would have a ten year waiting list of celebrities, politicians, and athletes.

I think Mike shudda got it LAST year! Name another coach in the NFL that could loose their QB for 4games, go 3-1 in those games AND make it the superbowl…All in the same season!!! Go ahead and give it to whomever u want..when the smoke clears, I’ll take playoffs and SB rings over coach of the year anyday

Protect the franchise quarterback. Tomlin should have put Ben on ice for San Fran and Cleveland. Maybe even for Denver…without an offensive line, another slight against Tomlin and his leadership, Ben needs to be 90-100% to deal with the line problems.
With offensive play calling such as what we saw in Cleveland, you can see why Denver looks like a threat. The Steelers have the long-running habit of making sup-par teams look like superstars.

I understand being a fan of a team, president or political party is a non-objective position…lol….but you need to be more objective in your assessment of Tomlin. He won’t get mentioned this year unless he wins it all. If he can’t manage to win it all there are enough reasons why you or I might just have to turn the other cheek and wait for another season. But most of us true Steeler fans have great memory recall, and we won’t forget how Ben didn’t get the rest required to recover before the post-season began and we’ll put that on the pile of reasons why fans start to lose confidence in the head coach.

the targetting from the establishment, because is media, commish etc.
the bad calls from the referees in the L´s
cowher 15 ys 1 sb 1win
tomlin 5 ys 1 sb 1 win, probably this year we have a championship team but the reconstruccion is already on
some fans are very spoiled

Mike Tomlin doesn’t deserve coach of the year. Granted nobody’s perfect, but some of the things Tomlin does both in game and out are mindblowing and frustrating. And sometimes they make me pine for Bill Cowher. And he wasn’t without fault either.

To me, CotY is reserved for a coach that makes an outstanding turnaround, such as (and it kills me to say this) Jim Harbaugh, or perhaps Raheem Morris (last year), or Jim Schwartz (Lions this year, amazing).

I would also consider an extremely successful season by a relatively new head coach to be a CotY candidate.

But to me, Tomlin did exactly what he did last year. He got us to 12-4 and the playoffs. While it’s tough to maintain that level of play two years in a row, and he’s a great coach, you have to admit other teams have had much more impressive improvements.