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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Marvin Lewis and Andy Dalton winning the North 4 times kinda makes my point for me. Or losing the division to an offense built around Joe Flacco, a 30 yr old Anquan Boldin and a 36 year old Derrick Mason.
That's a division the Steelers, with Ben, Brown, Bell, Polumalu, Harrison, Heyward, Pouncey should've run. And since 2011 they have all of 3 playoff wins despite prime years from those guys in there.
I look at Reid absolutely OWNING his division for the last decade and see a 'great' coach. I see you making an argument that Tomlin couldn't do so and thus that demonstrates his greatness. That doesn't make sense to me.
Those were not great teams in the AFCN - and yet Tomlin couldn't consistently stand apart from them.
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So rank the AFC divisions since 2002 and going to 4 divisions per conference from softest to hardest.
Seems to me that AFC North had more years with 3 above average teams in same year than any other AFC division since 2002.
AFC North has the most wildcard playoff teams of all 8 divisions since 2002.
I don't believe I made any comment about how Tomlin compares to any other coach, not sure why you are imagining some argument I did not state.