Need for Major Team Changes - Tomlin's Weakness Exposed
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00:03 If you make a coaching decision
00:05 based on the fact that your starting quarterback
00:08 has been injured for two and a half games
00:10 and you've lost all of those games
00:11 and your linebacking core has been completely decimated,
00:15 your safety core has been eliminated.
00:18 Demonte Casey now suspended for the year, pending appeal.
00:22 Mika Fitzpatrick out at least this week
00:25 and out for more than half of the Colts game as well,
00:28 has missed much of this year with various injuries,
00:30 had four different injuries this year at this point.
00:33 It's just, if you're making a decision based on that,
00:36 one, you're not very smart
00:38 and two, you're too much like the other not smart teams,
00:42 the ones who do do that
00:43 and they're chasing you year after year after year.
00:47 Look, they need significant changes
00:49 in their offensive staff, if not a complete overhaul,
00:53 massive changes.
00:54 They need an offensive coordinator
00:56 who A, is qualified to do the job,
00:58 which they haven't had for a while
01:00 and B, is not just qualified, but is extraordinary,
01:04 which they haven't had probably since 2008 or 2005,
01:08 somewhere in there.
01:10 They haven't had that level of competence in that position.
01:14 So a lot of that falls on Tomlin.
01:15 That's his one weakness.
01:16 I've said this all along.
01:18 His one weakness is he does not look to surround himself
01:22 with the best.
01:24 That's not a good quality in a head coach.
01:27 When he came in as a Steelers head coach,
01:30 there were already elite coordinators in place,
01:33 or at least in the case of Bruce Arians,
01:34 a very, very good one.
01:36 I don't know that he was elite, but he was very good.
01:38 And then of course, on the other side of the ball,
01:40 Dick LeBeau, as good as there's been
01:42 as a defensive coordinator.
01:43 So he had that, but then when he began to replace them,
01:46 he didn't look for that same level of excellence.
01:50 And in the case of Matt Canada, I've pointed this out before.
01:54 As a collegiate offensive coordinator,
01:56 he had, I believe, a dozen seasons.
01:58 It's right around a dozen.
02:00 And the average scoring output
02:02 for his dozen college offenses was 57th out of 130.
02:07 How does that person become an NFL OC?
02:12 If you're going to hire that person,
02:14 you kind of get what you deserve.
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