Is it time for Mike Tomlin to step aside?

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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.

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.