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.
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New head coach next season.
The Steelers are not evolving with the NFL and Tomlin is coaching us into mediocrity.
We need an offensive mind as HC like the Fins OC. He will be able to get the offense out of first gear and find a new DC that will use our defensive talent
Yeah no shit
I’m sorry, what? I have never once heard a head coach at a post game press conference start to talk shit about someone on the coaching staff they were about to fire.
Regardless of who did the actual firing based on some dumb youtube video you apparently take as having the all knowing inside word of the Pittsburgh Steelers private meetings with ownership I cant imagine the firing was a surprise to Tomlin. Rooney and Tomlin likely discussed and came to the decision. Thats a more likely scenario than “OMG Rooneys have lost faith in Tomlin and just fired the OC without him even knowing so Tomlin had to beg Rooney to let him say he fired him so that no one thought he was weak”. Which is kind what some of you are making it sound like happened and is a really really dumb take.
Ok…I am gonna be “that guy” here…but…
Does it really matter? This game is hard enough to manage at the NFL level. Do we really need to turn it into soap opera levels of drama that they might have to deal with publicly?
The truth is that the offense sucks or sucked(depending on your level of optimism). Changes needed to be made and should’ve been made earlier.
How it happened is irrelevant.
Boss hired him, can’t fire him without the boss agreeing
It doesn’t fucking matter
Is there any actual proof of this, or is he just giving his opinion? Without real proof, it’s just conjecture.
I don’t care who pulled the trigger, our offense is no longer being held hostage by a terrorist. Tomlin taking the stance he did won him his locker room back.
Or maybe, just hear me out, it was a decision made as a group with everyone on board
Are people that fucking dumb to not understand this is Tomlin falling on the sword to contain it and keep other involved names out.
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.
Proof?
Art II, as the owner, has to approve all moves. So, in a sense, he had to be the one to fire Canada because if he didn’t want him gone, he’d still be on the staff.
It feels more likely that a reporter got it wrong than the Head Coach lying. if it was Rooney’s decision, I’m sure somebody like Adam Schefter would be able to confirm it but to this point only Dulac has said this is what happened.