Colin Cowherd: “Good, God, are the Steelers AWFUL offensively... Again. If Belichick can get fired, if Andy Reid can get fired, if Pete Carroll can get fired... I know he got an extension but we can be critical of Mike Tomlin. I mean, Russell Wilson had five drives and ONE first down. The pass protection was awful. He and Justin Fields had ten quarterback hits and four sacks. And these two guys are mobile and run well. They can’t run the football. They’ve tried that the last several years and last year were middle of the pack. In the last five years Pittsburgh is 30th in total yards per game. Below Carolina... Below dysfunctional teams like the Raiders and Washington. Only the Jets and Giants are worse. It doesn’t matter if it’s old Big Ben, young Kenny Pickett, Mason Rudolph, and now these guys. They can’t move the ball and the pass-protection has been terrible.
Russell Wilson and Justin Fields the last two years are the most sacked quarterbacks in the league. If you’re wondering why Justin Fields looks skittish, and Russell Wilson is ‘Captain Check-down' this weekend, they don’t wanna get hit. Would you wanna get hit if the last two years you’re the most sacked quarterback in the league? When you watch this kind of ineptitude on one side of the ball, it’s coaching. Washington, the Raiders, the Jets, and the Giants – those are broken franchises. Pittsburgh isn't. Pittsburgh drafts really well and they develop well. They have excellent ownership. They’re not the biggest spenders but they’re not cheap. Defensively, they’re always elite, yet they’re completely and utterly inept on one side of the ball. THAT’S on the head coach. He’s run through coordinators, he’s run through quarterbacks, THAT’S on Mike Tomlin. They are AWFUL.
When a business is not broken and does many things fundamentally well, and you have a department of the business – maybe the sales part of the business – is lousy, but the marketing is good, the engineering is good; well then the CEO has to go to the sales manager and replace the sales manager because everything else is humming.
Pittsburgh does everything well. They draft well, free agency they’re smart, it’s stable... They are just inept offensively. Justin Fields and Russell Wilson are running for their lives. This is Mike Tomlin’s culture and its his locker room. It’s his offensive coordinator. It’s HIS responsibility. They haven’t been good for like seven years in that area, and they can’t produce a rhythm now or last year, or the year before, or the year before. I think Tomlin would be a great broadcaster, I don’t think he’s a bad coach. But we’re running Andy Reid out of Philly, Pete Carroll out of the NFL, and Belichick out of New England. This is the coach’s responsibility. This is on Mike."
Watch Colin Cowherd of FS1’s The Herd explain why he thinks the Pittsburgh Steelers need to have an honest conversation about the future of head coach Mike Tomlin, as the one-time Super Bowl winning head coach seems to have the Steelers positioned in a rudderless juxtaposition.
Check out the segment above as Colin details the ‘ineptitude’ of the Pittsburgh offense that has spanned nearly the last full decade, and how ultimately that responsibility falls squarely on Tomlin’s shoulders.
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