{"id":500183,"date":"2025-11-04T20:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/500183\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:38:11","slug":"former-offensive-lineman-offers-bizarre-mike-tomlin-take-after-beating-colts-go-to-a-better-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/500183\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Offensive Lineman Offers Bizarre Mike Tomlin Take After Beating Colts: ‘Go To A Better Team’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers pulled off a big upset in Week 9, taking down the NFL\u2019s best team.<\/a> While they were coming off two ugly losses, they turned things around against the Indianapolis Colts. Despite starting slow, the Steelers controlled most of the game. The six turnovers they forced helped with that. However, former NFL offensive lineman Alex Boone wasn\u2019t impressed with the Steelers\u2019 win, and he thinks it should make Mike Tomlin want to leave Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

\u201cAaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers did not beat the Colts,\u201d Boone said recently on his OLine Committee podcast.<\/a> \u201cThe Colts literally beat themselves. Six turnovers later and you only lose by a touchdown? I\u2019m almost looking at Pittsburgh like, \u2018Are you guys done with Tomlin yet?\u2019 And Tomlin, you should go to a better team. You need to go somewhere where you\u2019re respected and loved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Were the Steelers perfect against the Colts? No, but there isn\u2019t a perfect team in the NFL. Yes, the Steelers only won 27-20, but that final score doesn\u2019t tell the full story of the game.<\/p>\n

The Steelers scored a touchdown to go up 24-7 near the start of the first quarter. After that, their offense took its foot off the gas. It was less aggressive, just trying to bleed the clock out. The Colts put 10 points on the board in the last five minutes of the game. Also, three of those points came as a result of Roman Wilson\u2019s fumble on a poor<\/a> decision to try to leap a defender.<\/p>\n

Therefore, it wasn\u2019t a traditional one-score game. The Colts made a lot of mistakes, but the Steelers\u2019 defense deserves credit for putting them in those situations. MVP candidate Jonathan Taylor was held to 45 rushing yards. That allowed the Steelers better get after quarterback Daniel Jones, who had five of the Colts\u2019 six turnovers.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Tomlin is the architect of the Steelers\u2019 brand of football. That game against the Colts is how he wants to win. The Steelers\u2019 defense made splash plays, and their offense capitalized on those opportunities.<\/p>\n

Tomlin is the Steelers\u2019 head coach because he wants to be. He\u2019s got the trust of ownership,<\/a> and he\u2019s got a good working relationship with general manager Omar Khan. While some fans might be frustrated with Tomlin, the Steelers\u2019 organization clearly has a lot of love and respect for him. Otherwise, his poor playoff record likely would\u2019ve gotten him fired. He\u2019s committed to winning in Pittsburgh.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers pulled off a big upset in Week 9, taking down the NFL\u2019s best team. While…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[80678,7,392,1255,6,520,57,2360,426,80679],"class_list":{"0":"post-500183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-alex-boone","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis-colts","11":"tag-mike-tomlin","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","15":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","16":"tag-steelers","17":"tag-the-oline-committee"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115493359445125698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}