THE HERD | Colin Cowherd REACTS, Pittsburgh Steelers Chant FIRE MIKE TOMLIN | NFL

THE HERD | Colin Cowherd REACTS, Pittsburgh Steelers Chant FIRE MIKE TOMLIN | NFL

10 defense. They’ll be better early than November, December, and January. And the quarterback plays limited because they can’t run the football and the O line is always in crisis. That’s what they are. You can keep running through quarterbacks and left tackles and wide receivers and drama and running backs, coordinators, doesn’t matter. The guy in charge, Mike Tomlin, is tonedeaf offense. NFL head coaches have gotten younger, smarter, and more offensive. And these older defensive guys, Pete Carroll, Bill Bellichic, Mike Tomlin, Ron Rivera, Lovey Smith, they feel outdated. And I said this, Aaron Rogers, go to Minnesota or retire. You’re just stepping into Tomlin’s quicksand. And I would I would have no problem hiring Mike Tomlin say in Miami to stabilize the Dolphins. I think he’d be a really good fit there. But look around the league right now. Who’s a number one seed in the AFC? Shawn Payeyton, offensive coach. The Jaguars never deliver. Oh, wait. Now they’re going to win their division potentially. Liam Cohen, offensive coach. Shawn McVey is number two seed in the NFC. You know who number one is? Offensive coach Ben Johnson. I would argue Kyle Shannon’s done a better job coaching than anybody outside of Mike Frabel this year. Another offensive coach. Offensive coaches are younger. They’re smarter. They’re more current. And I said this last week, offensive coaches can fix problems in the season. Defensive guys feel like they need an off season. And I’m sorry, but on defense, they’re old. The Steelers are expensive. Darius Slay, Jaylen Ramsay, they’re past their prime. They’re paying a fortune for it. They got gray beards on offense and on defense. They took a defensive tackle instead of Jackson Dart. What are you doing? And again, no urgency. This is a criticism I said about Pete Carol. Gino Smith’s not good enough. Ron Rivera said, “Oh, I got Sam Hal not good enough.” Aaron Rogers, don’t blame him. Look around the league. The rules have changed. These old defensive guys, I don’t have a problem with the Me Ryans, Mike McDonald. They’re young. They’re current. They’re aggressive. I mean, McDonald took over for Pete Carol. An hour later, the team was better with the same players. So, the last six Super Bowls have featured head coaches with an offensive background. Doesn’t mean you have to hire them, but yesterday finally, finally, the fans said enough. I mean, you hold Buffalo to three points at half and you get rolled. Yeah. Um, it’s a it’s a weird it’s a weird time right now for Pittsburgh. Um because you could look at this from a couple different ways. You could look at Pittsburgh as just a little unfortunate that they couldn’t just quite get that quarterback position right. uh since Ben Rothllessberger and that if they were able to just get that quarterback and get solidified there, everything else would be able to build from there. You could also look at it from this team is just lost, confused, and have no idea what they’re doing. And to me, we can talk about the defense or the decisions of Mike Tomlin and the quarterback and they don’t have the O line and they can’t run the ball this that to me the most indefensible thing is that you let a wide receiver go out the door for essentially nothing and he’s right now considered a top one or two wide receiver. uh who’s absolutely balling, who is a massive piece for Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys. And if you were a skillful enough organization where you traded that and you got some great capital back and now you were able to leverage that to have an a now you’re like well man they were struggling in the run game in the O line and now they have a great run game a great O line like and and look look who they drafted so and so you know John Smith a wide receiver in in in the fourth round look how great he’s doing right now like that’s not the case that’s That’s not what they ended up doing. Um, and it’s DK Metaf, right, who they’re still paying a gajillion dollars. And like I had said before this game was even played, I was like, you could have had both receivers actually. And doesn’t mean that you were going to be able to keep them both longterm, but you could have had both of them. And then it was like, well, now at least you’re giving Aaron Rogers like two elite wide re two great wide receivers. And now that should ideally open up a lot of things. should should you there should be a lot of versatility there certainly working for Dak and and the Dallas Cowboys. Uh you would think Aaron Rogers would be able to find a way to be able to to make that work here. Um and to me when you look at just even a decision like that and listen there’s every coach has made a a poor move, a poor decision. Um, but like that’s just such a glaring because especially because everyone kept saying, “Oh, as soon as you as soon as a receiver leaves Mike Tomlin, it’s downhill for them. Mike Tomlin knows when to let people go, blah blah blah blah blah.” And it’s like, well, this was this was a massive misstep and being unable to make this work is it’s just it’s a huge problem to me. Um, and you know, it’s uh, especially if you’re going to be a defensive team, it’s like I then expect that defense I expected to look like what we see the Houston Texans look like, what we see the Denver Broncos look like. Like like that’s that’s what what the expectations are then. It’s let me see what you know, let let’s see what this defense can bring to the table and really make things a lot easier. and throughout the course of the season, it just hasn’t necessarily done that. Um, and or what even the Cleveland Browns defense looks like. And that that to me then becomes a massive problem. So now you’re not even managing the team, right? And managing the personalities, right? You’re getting rid of players that you should have kept or should have been able to, you know, manage properly. Your defense isn’t good enough. and now it’s been, you know, years and years and years and you haven’t found a long-term answer at the quarterback position. Not to mention, even with Aaron, you haven’t even got your young quarterback. Like, it’s okay to bring in Aaron, but then you haven’t even had your young quarterback who you’re like, we’re just going to have sitting now for a year or whatever uh behind Aaron. learn, grow, take your time, you know, and Aaron’s going to, you know, uh, apparently was more than happy at this point of his career to be a mentor, etc., etc. And they they didn’t even they didn’t even do that, right? They didn’t they didn’t even take that approach right now. Um, and it’s just, yeah, it’s you’re you’re not taking care of right now. You’re failing the I always talk about this, you know, you a team you always got to figure out short-term versus long term. And it’s and it’s a tricky balance. They’re not doing short-term or long-term right now. So it’s like, so then what are you doing? What do you what are you doing? What is the plan? What’s the short-term plan or what’s the long-term plan? What’s the short-term plan or what’s the long-term plan? I don’t know what that answer is, and I don’t think anyone knows that answer. That’s a problem. That’s that’s that’s a problem. But those are just my thoughts. I’d absolutely love to hear yours. What do you guys all think about the Pittsburgh Steelers um and the fire Mike Tomlin chance? I was I was surprised by that. I mean, yeah, just it’s kind of crazy to hear that. But let me know your thoughts in the comments below. I read every single comment so you agree with me or disagree with me. Either way, let’s get in some discussions. Let’s get in some fights, but ultimately let’s just have some fun. Please do consider subscribing. We are building an amazing community here and absolutely love to see you part of it. I want to build something that we all genuinely feel connected to, something that we’re really excited to be part of. I think we’re well on our way to doing it. Please don’t forget to give this video a thumbs up as it really does help with the visibility and the algorithm. 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THE HERD | Colin Cowherd REACTS, Pittsburgh Steelers Chant FIRE MIKE TOMLIN | NFL
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