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The stat about Tomlin’s losses is meaningless without context. This statistic includes teams that were 0-1, like the Ravens last year, you know the team that beat the Steelers in the playoffs, no matter how good they turned out to be. Kind of like the 1-5 Chiefs that haven’t lost a game since and that may still win their division. What matters is what the teams season record was.

Quoting from Bob Labriola’s Asked and Answered on Steelers.com, a reader named Nathan Smith posted the following:

“Using the wonderful Profootballreference.com, and not promising I didn’t make at least a couple of small mistakes, this is what I found: Tomlin is 46-16 against teams ending the season with a losing record, and 34-10 against the really bad teams. He is 25-23 against teams ending the season with a winning record, and 19-21 against the really good teams.”

http://www.steelers.com/news/asked-and-answered/article-1/Asked-and-Answered-Dec-31/25d2ed27-fcc2-4066-853d-a1ed99ec41ea

I sound like a Tomlin apologist, although I am not, he does make mistakes. I don’t remember any quite as bad as kicking off in overtime, but I guess even “football gods” can make mistakes. I guess I went off on a bit of a rant because of people cherry picking “facts” rather that looking at the overall picture.

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2. Like everyone else has said, Sunday was filled of “woulda, coulda, shoulda’s”. It might have helped giving it to DeAngelo, but I think it was lack of splash plays that hurt the team most.

3. I agree that a turnover or two would have shifted momentum in a huge way.

4. I will let DeAngelo Williams answer this question (he said this after Sunday’s loss): “What bothers me is that people overlook 4-10 teams like they aren’t allowed to play good football or play up to a team that is hot or has a winning record. This is the National Football League. It is any given Sunday, and it is not always the best team that wins on Sunday. It’s the team that plays the best on Sundays.”

5. End the regular season on the high note with a win, and just let the chips fall where they may for the Bills Jets game.

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2. Sheets MTO’s are wonderful things, It’s funny how you miss life’s little pleasures. Hindsight is a MTO that only fills you up if you are the one who is judging what someone else has already done. If you are the doer and do not succeed you cant have your MTO, only rice cakes and that empty feeling in your gut.

3. This D needs turnovers to survive or an offense to bail them out. Last week they got neither of these things.

4. That the loss number will stay the same after this week

5. I want to see Rex Ryan with a big fat smile on his face after 60 minutes and see our Steelers grab that last golden ticket

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2 – As stated, 20/20 hindsight suggests this should have occurred. Though, during the game, it is difficult to change mentalities during a half when your normally very potent pass offense just isn’t clicking.

3 – I disagree to a certain extent. I don’t think the team came out flat, they just didn’t come out to play at all, except for D-Will that is. Neither the offense nor the defense played well.

4 – It gives some backup to the arguments that we don’t win the games we most definitely should often enough. It should not be a bell curve here.

5 – I agree with Homer on this one. Beat the Browns, Jets lose, run the table. Hopefully that happens and the team stays Humble throughout the playoffs knowing they almost screwed themselves out of a playoff spot by the egg they laid. UGH that was a bad game.

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2 – It is the argument between doing what has been working NOW versus what has been working all year. It is easy to decide in hindsight, harder to do so in-game.

3 – Turnover battle wins imply that your team either collected some or that your team did not give any up. This defense is not great and has been able to overcome many shortcomings by getting turnovers at opportune times. The offense tends to hum when it isn’t turning the ball over. I don’t think the entire team came out ‘flat’. But one key cog was definitely not himself and the team couldn’t overcome that.

4 – That more than half of his losses came to teams over .500 when they played them.

5 – Best possible outcome? Steelers win. Jets lose.

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2. D-Will cut thru the Baltimore front seven like a hot knife through butter on that first drive. And they should have gone for the field goal on fourth down. They should have stayed with the ground game, even though Ben had been the hottest QB in the league over the past six weeks. But that’s hindsight. Coach Tomlin’s gotta get a pair of those hindsight glasses, so he was see what’s gonna happen before it actually does. Then Homer and MikeyT will head over to the Sheetz and buy some Powerball tickets. And Homer will send you an e-mail from the Bay Course at the Kapalua Resort on Maui. Aloha.

3. Actually they lost this game because the defense sucked and couldn’t stop a fourth-string quarterback who joined the team twelve days earlier on loan from the Department of Employment Services. The truth is the EZ-Pass defense can’t seem to stop anybody. The only thing they can do is make the splash plays to get turnovers, and, if you don’t turn the ball over against them, you will beat them. So, yeah. I agree with Tomlin.

4. It tells me that Mike Tomlin and Ben Roethlisberger have a problem against teams with bad records. It’s as much Big Ben as it is Coach T. He had a 100-yard pick six against Oakland in 2009, and had one on Sunday that was called back. it’s Ben, too.

5. The best long term scenario is to win Sunday, have the Bills beat the Jets, get into the playoffs and run the table. Draft choices come and go. Some pan out some don’t. They can never take those Lombardi Trophies away from you. But then again, the way the defense has been playing, Homer half expects to see the Cleveland PD arrest Johnny Football, toss him into the drunk tank, and then, an hour before the game, give him a police escort to the stadium where he will take turns vomiting and throwing TD passes against the EZ-Pass defense. After last Sunday, Homer doesn’t know what to think except for this: THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR LOSING ON CONSECUTIVE SUNDAYS TO THE RAVENS AND BROWNS. IT’S WORSE THAN DEATH BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO LIVE WITH BEING A LOSER. Happy New Year.

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