Colin Cowherd: “I have had friends who have lived in St. Louis and Pittsburgh and they always tell you those are the two cities in America that you go to a party on a Friday night and people ask ‘WHERE DID YOU GO TO HIGH SCHOOL?’... I’ve been in LA eight years, nobody has ever asked me that. It’s OK to be old-school and love tradition, but this ‘DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS’ stuff is not working in Pittsburgh. Offense and scoring points wins. In the Steelers last four playoff games, this is how many points the Steelers allowed until they scored their first points – 21, 35, 28, and 21. They’re not competitive. Scoring points wins championships. Last year’s Super Bowl was 38-35. The Steelers always get lauded for ‘WINNING UGLY’ because that’s the only way they can win. They’ve had a bottom ten offense the last five years, and that’s with great receiving talent, an excellent tight end, two very good backs this year, and the o-line played pretty well this year. The Steelers need to look in the mirror... Or maybe just Mike Tomlin. There’s two things in modern football that you have to get right in the NFL: quarterback and offensive coordinator. You don’t have to have an offensive head coach, but you better have somebody smart coordinating, and the Steelers are lousy at both. The last offensive coordinator they had that we liked was Bruce Arians in 2011. This is how tone-deaf they are – it took them until Week 16 this year to discover their third-string quarterback is their best quarterback. YIKES. Kenny Pickett has 24 starts as a pro and only 13 touchdown passes with an excellent tight end, two excellent receivers, viable running backs, and the o-line had a good year. If Mike Tomlin can’t solve those or can’t see them, you got an issue. This ‘DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIP’ stuff and tough guy stuff is not working. You can retain Mike, it’s not the only problem. There are some things he does very well. The culture, the toughness, I like that stuff. But they gotta get quarterback and offensive coordinator right and it feels like they haven’t in a decade and a half. Philadelphia moved off Andy Reid, Belichick got moved off in New England, San Francisco moved off Harbaugh... Philadelphia succeeded post-Andy, Niners succeeded post-Harbaugh. It’s not the end of the world.”
Watch Colin Cowherd of FS1’s The Herd explain why it’s the right time for the Pittsburgh Steelers to move off long-time head coach Mike Tomlin, citing the franchise’s incompetence on offense and lack of ability to develop Ben Roethlisberger’s replacement to want to part ways defensive-oriented Tomlin.
Check out the segment above as Colin points out how other teams eventually moved off their Hall of Fame caliber coaches the likes of Andy Reid, Bill Belichick, and Jim Harbaugh, and says no head coach is above being replaced when their influence has finally run aground.
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