Comments on: Surviving the Off Season, Part 5: Trashing Tomlin https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2016/02/15/surviving-the-off-season-part-5-trashing-tomlin/ An Introspective Steelers Site Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:41:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: George Siegel https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2016/02/15/surviving-the-off-season-part-5-trashing-tomlin/#comment-3066 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:41:51 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=4670#comment-3066 In reply to Rebecca.

Thank you, I will.I appreciate the thought.

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]]> By: Rebecca https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2016/02/15/surviving-the-off-season-part-5-trashing-tomlin/#comment-3062 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:43:24 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=4670#comment-3062 In reply to George Siegel.

Great thoughts. Next time you’re going to write an article let me know and we’ll front-page it : ) Seriously…this is good stuff.

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]]> By: Rebecca https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2016/02/15/surviving-the-off-season-part-5-trashing-tomlin/#comment-3061 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:40:41 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=4670#comment-3061 In reply to Homer J..

Inconvenience? I ran out and put my retirement savings on “teams that such” and now what do I do??!

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]]> By: Rebecca https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2016/02/15/surviving-the-off-season-part-5-trashing-tomlin/#comment-3060 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:38:02 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=4670#comment-3060 In reply to elpalito.

Very good point. It’s easy to forget how thin the talent line is, and just because a team is not well-coached or managed or whatever doesn’t mean they won’t occasionally surprise everyone.

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]]> By: jackfinnblog https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2016/02/15/surviving-the-off-season-part-5-trashing-tomlin/#comment-3057 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:06:36 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=4670#comment-3057 In reply to elpalito.

Not necessarily about when games are won, but that over a 9 year period the team has never won more than 5-in-a-row is I think indicative of the problem. They are not consistently great, even when they have had great players. They drop games to inferior teams. Yeah they have gotten to 10 wins and 11 wins last couple of years but that could have easily been 12 and 13 with 1st round byes and home field.

Its been a probelm for Tomlins entire tenure, lack of consistency leading to “bad” losses , think about how much playoff seeding we’ve given up.

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]]> By: cold_old_steelers_fan https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2016/02/15/surviving-the-off-season-part-5-trashing-tomlin/#comment-3056 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:38:43 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=4670#comment-3056 In reply to hombredeacero.

Trap games: Is it Tomlin or scheme or is it Ben? For some reason, I don’t remember Ben having good games for the games we lost.

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]]> By: elpalito https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2016/02/15/surviving-the-off-season-part-5-trashing-tomlin/#comment-3053 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:51:55 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=4670#comment-3053 In reply to jackfinnblog.

Your ‘stacking of wins’ is a pile 5 wins high. If a team will win 11 or 12 games…you’d prefer that at least half of those were won consecutively? I don’t see why that matters. 11-5 is 11-5. You do want the best football to be played at the end of the year, but that’s not necessarily the same as a winning streak.

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]]> By: elpalito https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2016/02/15/surviving-the-off-season-part-5-trashing-tomlin/#comment-3052 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:49:54 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=4670#comment-3052 In reply to hombredeacero.

And yet the Steelers also win games that they shouldn’t win.

I think this is where fan perception gets too cloudy. Just because the fans think Team A is terrible and an easy win does not make it reality. These are all professionals. They are all capable. And it may be true that if you play Team A 100 times, that you win 80 of them. But you also lose 20 of them…and that’s not to be discounted.

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]]> By: cold_old_steelers_fan https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2016/02/15/surviving-the-off-season-part-5-trashing-tomlin/#comment-3048 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 06:27:09 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=4670#comment-3048 In reply to Anonymous.

Dang, I forgot to sign this one as well.

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]]> By: Anonymous https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2016/02/15/surviving-the-off-season-part-5-trashing-tomlin/#comment-3045 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 06:11:37 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=4670#comment-3045 Good article. Good thread. You folks are making me smile.

There is nothing I can add that hasn’t been said by the previous posters. I like Tomlin. He isn’t perfect. No one is. He is damn good though. If there is anyone who is going to win a SB with this line up, it is going to be him.

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