And yet we hired him. Rather hire some random highschool coach.
Having Teryl Austin run a defense that expensive is like buying a Lamborghini and hiring a beagle to drive it.
I was hoping the defense could keep up the TO & someone somewhere would poach him after the season, but I have no trust in Tomlin finding a good replacement.
A fish rots from the head.
Fuck AI
So can we just reapply Tomlin’s quote about the Flacco trade to this? Why are we collecting our division rivals trash?
As a Lions and Steelers fan…yeah. Was hoping for an upgrade during his demotion years but it’s been rough
Tomlins ability to always have a fall guy is insane.
How does this guy have a job after all that?
Is this just a screenshot of ChatGPT? Fuck outta here
Tomlin is a great motivator to the players, but terrible at picking coaches. He sticks with them far too long and it’s completely fucking us. Swallow your fucking pride man!
We haven’t had a serious D coordinator since Lebeau. Everyone else has kissed Tomlins ass
Tomlin hired him. They can both go
mediocre Mike is the de facto defensive coordinator.
Jim Leonard, defensive pass game coordinator & DB coach for Broncos might be a good change for DC.
He was previously the DC for both Nick Herbig, Benton & Loudermilk. He was the DB coach for a year when Watt was still at Wisconsin. Steelers have made it known they liked Wisconsin prospects back when he was the DC.
Last year as Broncos defensive passing game coordinator and DB coach, Broncos finished 3rd in pass defense, 8th in INTs, 1st in sacks & 2nd in pressure rate. They are currently 3rd in passing yards allowed per game, 1st in sacks and 1st in pressure rate 6 games into 2025.
Wisconsin was 5th ranked total defense in 2020, 1st in 2021 & 11th in 2022 which were Leonards final 3 seasons as DC. They were only ranked outside the top 10 twice in Leonards tenure as DC (2017-2022). 11th in 2022 & 32nd in 2018.
I can’t believe y’all are citing stats from 8-11 years ago. That’s absolutely deluded.
How do these guys keep getting hired?
Who keeps hiring shitty coaches year after year after year???
I’m trying to envision myself in a job interview with the equivalent of that “resumé.”. It would basically be a scene out of stepbrothers.
I can’t believe we have to put up with this garbage 😭
Tomlin must be smarter than all of us, hiring a failed coach from INSIDE his own division 😎
Steelers defense operates on turnovers and that’s it. They rely entirely on the star players to make plays and not having a good scheme
when will Steelers realize that Mike Tomlin is the reason for defensive failures? Teryl Austin is a puppet.
Fire Tomlin.
It’s Tomlin’s defense, everyone who covers the Steelers has always said this. Austin is just a puppet they hired since obviously no one else wanted him.
Talented defense with a shit coordinator!!
The players need too do there jobs and after browns game did they really forget to pass rush. No players play this badly i mean 1 sack nah I kind wonder if Steelers threw this game to make browns look dumb and we see bengals be destroyed next 3 weeks
He will eventually be the scapegoat, but he’s not really in charge of the defense. He’s coordinator in name only. This is Mike’s defense, and it’s his ego that keeps it the same.
Austin is a great DB coach and that was the reason he was brought in since Butler couldn’t figure out how to coach the backend. As a DC, he sucks. There is currently no one on the staff I’d want as a DC if Austin was to be canned.
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Just one more coordinator change bro please
500 yards in three straight games is wild
Head coach goes or bust. I’m tired of pretending.
Austin and Meyer should have been gone long ago
And yet we hired him. Rather hire some random highschool coach.
Having Teryl Austin run a defense that expensive is like buying a Lamborghini and hiring a beagle to drive it.
I was hoping the defense could keep up the TO & someone somewhere would poach him after the season, but I have no trust in Tomlin finding a good replacement.
A fish rots from the head.
Fuck AI
So can we just reapply Tomlin’s quote about the Flacco trade to this? Why are we collecting our division rivals trash?
As a Lions and Steelers fan…yeah. Was hoping for an upgrade during his demotion years but it’s been rough
Tomlins ability to always have a fall guy is insane.
How does this guy have a job after all that?
Is this just a screenshot of ChatGPT? Fuck outta here
Tomlin is a great motivator to the players, but terrible at picking coaches. He sticks with them far too long and it’s completely fucking us. Swallow your fucking pride man!
We haven’t had a serious D coordinator since Lebeau. Everyone else has kissed Tomlins ass
Tomlin hired him. They can both go
mediocre Mike is the de facto defensive coordinator.
Jim Leonard, defensive pass game coordinator & DB coach for Broncos might be a good change for DC.
He was previously the DC for both Nick Herbig, Benton & Loudermilk. He was the DB coach for a year when Watt was still at Wisconsin. Steelers have made it known they liked Wisconsin prospects back when he was the DC.
Last year as Broncos defensive passing game coordinator and DB coach, Broncos finished 3rd in pass defense, 8th in INTs, 1st in sacks & 2nd in pressure rate. They are currently 3rd in passing yards allowed per game, 1st in sacks and 1st in pressure rate 6 games into 2025.
Wisconsin was 5th ranked total defense in 2020, 1st in 2021 & 11th in 2022 which were Leonards final 3 seasons as DC. They were only ranked outside the top 10 twice in Leonards tenure as DC (2017-2022). 11th in 2022 & 32nd in 2018.
I can’t believe y’all are citing stats from 8-11 years ago. That’s absolutely deluded.
How do these guys keep getting hired?
Who keeps hiring shitty coaches year after year after year???
I’m trying to envision myself in a job interview with the equivalent of that “resumé.”. It would basically be a scene out of stepbrothers.
I can’t believe we have to put up with this garbage 😭
Tomlin must be smarter than all of us, hiring a failed coach from INSIDE his own division 😎
Steelers defense operates on turnovers and that’s it. They rely entirely on the star players to make plays and not having a good scheme
when will Steelers realize that Mike Tomlin is the reason for defensive failures? Teryl Austin is a puppet.
Fire Tomlin.
It’s Tomlin’s defense, everyone who covers the Steelers has always said this. Austin is just a puppet they hired since obviously no one else wanted him.
Talented defense with a shit coordinator!!
The players need too do there jobs and after browns game did they really forget to pass rush. No players play this badly i mean 1 sack nah I kind wonder if Steelers threw this game to make browns look dumb and we see bengals be destroyed next 3 weeks
He will eventually be the scapegoat, but he’s not really in charge of the defense. He’s coordinator in name only. This is Mike’s defense, and it’s his ego that keeps it the same.
Austin is a great DB coach and that was the reason he was brought in since Butler couldn’t figure out how to coach the backend. As a DC, he sucks. There is currently no one on the staff I’d want as a DC if Austin was to be canned.