2024 NFL Head Coaching Carousel

Tomlin reportedly told the team he intends to be back next season.

 

What I’m saying is it’s all bluster and used as a negotiating tool. It happens every time the Commanders job comes open. He’s not leaving. Call his bluff on it.

 

I’m criticizing the substance of the opinion not the fact of giving it.

 

I really thought Carroll being shown the door was the signal that the team was about to be sold. As executor of her brother's estate, Jody Allen is "charged" with disposing his assets to fund Paul Allen's various charitable organizations. But its starting to look that she enjoys being defacto team owner, He died five years ago. The league signed new long-term tv deals three years ago. Surely there are potential owners out there. Are there any parts of Allen's portfolio aside from the Seahawks and Blazers that haven't been liquidated?

 

Falcons now talking to Harbaugh.
I fully expect Arthur Blank to screw this up.

 

You pay a NFL head coach for consistency, locker room culture and tangible excellence in their specific area of expertise.

You pay a GM to find that coach a quarterback.

 

I wonder how many of these interviews are "performative" - interviews you have because you want you fans to know you've been thorough and to "boost" whomever you eventually hire "We talked to some of the greatest coaches in the game's history...but this BYOM just had something about him (aside from his lower contract demand) that made us really like the cut of his jib."

 

Your approach would give him more leverage, not less. It makes no sense for the Steelers.

 

Not every team works that way. The Steelers have always taken a collaborative approach to the draft. I am certain Tomlin had input into their decision to draft Kenny Pickett. I doubt they let Kevin Colbert decide that entirely on his own. He had already announced he was retiring after that draft. If you do put it on the GM, Omar Khan hasn't had the opportunity to sign or draft his own quarterback. He got the job a month or two after they selected Pickett. I imagine he also had some input given that he was the team's vice president of football and business administration (cap specialist) and he also had a background in scouting for the Steelers. They did interview other candidates for the job, but he was always the favorite. That said, he wasn't the one making the final decision on Pickett.

Also, part of the problem with Tomlin is the locker room culture. George Pickens is tremendously gifted, but he is immature and selfish and it shows. Najee Harris openly criticized the team culture after the season ended. (I forget if it was Monday night or during media availability yesterday). They had an issue with Diontae Johnson pouting on the field during a game. Neither the coach nor the other veterans on the team are cleaning that stuff up. There were too many instances of sloppy football and games in which the team didn't seem prepared to play this season. That reflects poorly on Tomlin.

 

That's fine, but the rhetorical question you asked was why the team would listen to him, not whether or not they should.

The Steelers haven't won a playoff game since 2016. The following season, their defense lost one player and fell apart. Granted, it was Ryan Shazier and that situation was traumatic, but they never adapted. They fell behind, 21-0, to the Jaguars in their playoff lost that year. Getting behind by huge deficits in playoff games has been the pattern ever since then and it started when they still had a Hall of Fame quarterback. I get the arguments for sticking with Tomlin. He's a great coach. He is probably going to the Hall of Fame. I also get the argument for moving on because it looks like they have been spinning their wheels since 2016.

 

The Cleveland columnists are good enough to work for the Plain Dealer.

 

Bingo.