Bullshit bullshit bullshit. So much bullshit you'd think this was a rodeo.
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Tomlin is an emotional HC. Emotional HC's allow for emotional teams. That's why the Steelers have so much drama all the damn time.

Tomlin is not an X's and O's offensive guy.

He's not really a defensive guy either.

He's a rah-rah guy.

And right now that D is struggling and his rah rah is not providing leadership. That locker room is in turmoil.

So if you arent an offensive guy, you arent a defensive guy and your rah rah isn't leading anymore, then wtf are you doing? 'Bout to get fired if he doesnt turn that shit around, that's what.
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The thing is, coaching in the NFL is the icing on the cake. It's not that Tomlin is a good coach or a bad coach (I think he's a horrible leader of men myself, he's a crybaby and his team reflects that), it's that not even Tomlin could screw up the amount of talent they had on that team during those years. A HOF QB and a stifling D is going to win a lot of games and few championships regardless of who the coach is.

It's just like the Bob Sutton argument here. The truly elite coaches make good units great but even great coaches can't make bad units good. Likewise, bad coaches can make great units good but they can't make great units bad.

Talent trumps everything else in the NFL, period.
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You're an idiot.
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Reid = great regular season coach, horrible in the postseason. I don't care what he did in Philly. In KC his playoff losses and collapses are some of the worst in NFL history.
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He's a rah-rah coach who's always had great coordinators, from Bruce Arians to Todd Haley to Dick LeBeau.
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As far as Reid as a gameday coach, he's one of the best.

Deferring at halftime: I watch CP idiots complain about that and quite frankly it's the better option by far. Belichick does it all the time. If executed properly it allows you to create a 14 point swing before the opposing team even has a chance to respond.

His clock management is waaaay overblown. I can see what he's attempting to do at the end of halves most of the time. But everything has to go according to plan, otherwise you're left with too little time. There's been very few instances in which i thought he didn't do a good job with the clock.
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Tomlin also inherited a team that won a Super Bowl the season before Cowher retired.
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Yikes, I cannot agree with that one bit. From a playcalling standpoint, Andy Reid is brilliant. In terms of coaching and preparing players? Easily one of the best in the game.

In terms of situational playcalling, he is not good. He is so good at playcalling and coaching that it has often overcome this problem especially against bad teams. But it is consistently a reason why his teams fall short. We've seen this same story over and over again, and now again with a different and improved qb.
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Yup - there are two schools of coaching and I'd say you put find labels on them. There are emotional coaches and there are tactical coaches.

Marty is arguably the best example of an emotional coach I've ever seen. He had guys win football games because he'd have them ready to eat glass before it started. He built a mindset and a desire to win and then just kicked the door until it broke down.

A guy like Andy is a tactical coach. He's going to work with his players and try to handle their egos, sure - but what he's going to try to do on gamedays isn't kick the door in - it's pick the lock. Bill Belichick is the defensively oriented version of that style of coach. He's the Ying to Tomlin's Yang.

Both have their plusses and minuses and it applies to all sports. You can win either way.

But to my eye, the former has a shorter shelf life. Sooner or later the lockerroom gets tired of the rah rah speeches telling them how they're going to succeed and instead they want a whiteboard showing them why they're going to succeed.

I think Tomlin's a fine coach (in a mold that I don't care for) but at some point, good coaches lose their message. Tom Coughlin is the best example we've seen of that in a long time. Tom needed to go in NYG - he'd run his course there. But that doesn't mean he suddenly became a shitty coach. Nor did it mean that he'd be easy to replace in NY. But a change was needed. It may be needed in Pittsburgh in short order as well.
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If you see a problem with his playcalling to this point...well you're just wrong and you're looking for reasons to bitch.
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Uh bullshit?

Give me an instance in which his playcalling was poor with Mahomes?
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It's easy to scapegoat Alex Smith but don't forget, Andy Reid hand-picked him to run the offense. Reid has to share some off the blame on that one.
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