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Originally Posted by htismaqe
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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Bingo, Mike Tomlin is successful because he went to a ready made team and has a front office that has still found him players.
If he had had the experience most new HC's have where he was hired by some team picking top 5 coming off a 3-13 year he'd probably be a position coach again who hadn't HCd in years and had some token Rooney interviews.
Also for a guy who was a DB coach he really knows shit about defense.