https://youtu.be/145OBPVLV-I?si=EE93ds6dR8I4u1Xs
I knew it!! At this point it might seem like an odd thing to post, but i can’t help but be very curious about how it all went down and why Tomlin fairly obviously lied when he said the decision was his, and his alone. If you watched Tomlin stand at the post game presser of that offensive disaster in Cleveland and say things like “exactly the type of game we anticipated” and that the Brown’s defense is so good that they “make a lot of offenses look that coupled”…it was just a big word salad avoiding the obvious point that the offense was really embarrassing. Nothing about his words or demeanor even mildly indicated a level of frustration with Canada that you would expect if he was about to, on his own, decide to fire him days later. As Ed Bouchette says in the link, a head coach probably doesn’t “want people thinking the boss ordered him to fire one of his assistants because that does not reflect well on the coach.” Could also be that Rooney didn’t want it known, making him appear overly aggressive and losing confidence in Tomlin to make these decisions. I would be very curious to see whose idea it was to publicly say this was Tomlin’s doing, when it was not.
Lets assume you are right. At very least we all can probably agree that Rooney signed off on Tomlin’s decision, or he had the power to stop it if he disagreed. So my question is, contain what?? Would it really have been any different if they just did what teams do all the time and said “we made the decision to move on” and portray it as a team decision that everyone agreed on? What is the motivation to “keep other involved names out” since we know Rooney had to sign off on it anyway? Tomlin falling on the sword, and then people close to the team leaking info that contradicts that, does not contain anything. It does the opposite and there is really no logical reason for it.