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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
All you can do is beat the teams on your schedule, but look at who the Steelers beat in this stretch:
Colts: 24-17
Falcons: 19-16
Panthers: 24-16
Raiders: 13-10
Ravens (sans Jackson): 16-13
This is what a rah rah coach can get you - your team will go out there and play hard, ugly things up and beat bad football teams.
But he still has significant tactical deficiencies. I think he's a solid coach who needs better coordinators but by no means a great one.
He had a decade with a roster full of HoF talents and a HoF quarterback in his prime and got next to nothing out of them despite the division being soft pretty much the entire time.
He's a high floor coach with an extremely low ceiling. In many ways, he's what Staley is likely to develop into. But if I'm looking for a HC to win me a SB rather than just sneak me into the playoffs, I think Staley's more likely to develop into that sort of guy than Tomlinson over the coming decade.
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They had to deal with the Patriots though. They could never get over that Pats/Brady hump and it's tough to hold that against them.