How successful do you think Mike Tomlin of the Steelers will be?

Question

Do you think he'll be successful his first year?
A winning record?
What about long-term success?

I hope he does well.

Thanks guys!!

Answer 1

I think he can be great in Pittsburgh. They should make the playoffs nxt year if Roethlisberger is healhty. He might not be Chuck Noll but he might win Super Bowl later.

Answer 2

After Bill took over the steelers nobody thought he would be a successful. heck until '05 Alot of people thought he hadn't been, but when you look at it they had 2 or 3 bad years, and 5 times to the AFC title game, and 2 super bowls with one win, that is a trip to the title game every 3rd year for 15 years, most teams would kill for that.

Bill left a good team, with a solid and mostly young core, The steelers are the one Team(The Rooney's) that won't fire a coach for a bad year, and let a coach build his team like they did 30 years ago. Heck I am almost 40 and the this is only there 3rd coach in my life time.

So to answer your questions, Cinny is there biggest threat this year in the AFC Central, I think they will have a winning record, and should have wildcard spot if not the Central title,
but they might be the 4 or 5 best team in the AFC.

Long term they will have some bad years, every now and then but unless Tomlin loses 2 or 3 straight years he will be with them until at least '10

Answer 3

That's a good question, Tori! I'm sure even Tomlin is wondering how well he can do. I personally believe that he will be an average ranked coach for the first 2 years as we re-build our team with youth and talent. Then it will fall on those decisions he made earlier in his career and on the players chosen and coaching staff chosen. The Rooney's aren't like Al Davis from the stand point of time allotted for new coaching.They are very patient with new beginnings. I like what Tomlin is about and he seems confident in his abilities. We definitely will see when he plays the Saints in the HOF game in August!

Answer 4

If Bill could'nt get the job done, I find it hard to belive a rookie coach could do it. I might be wrong though, Jets and Saints got to the playoffs with rookie coaches, but Pittsburgh has, in my opinon, a erratic quarterback that had 23 INT and 18 TD with a 75 QB rating. The 3500+ yrds were good, but everything else wasn't. Also, Steelers lost Joey Porter and drafted a rookie to take his place. i say theres a 75% chance he wont take the Steelers to the playoffs and I'm projecting a 7-9 record from him.

Answer 5

Yes, the Steelers will have a winning season this year, just because Big Ben will be ready at the start of the season, he should'nt have played at the start last year. They will not miss Joey Porter, with the two new rookies they'll be better at linebacker this year. Mike Tomlin will coach in many future playoff games.

Answer 6

I predict that in his first few seasons he might not do so great because of the team. Ben Roethlisberger has not done so great and they just loss Joey Porter, one of their defense's greatest threats. If they can have Roethlisberger be productive and have Hines Ward be healthy then they might do better than last year. Eventually the team will become better as they get more players from drafts and their young players get older.

Answer 7

i think theyll go at least 8-8......

they did that last year even with Big Ben's train wreck of a year......

its the Steelers, they always win.......

the run the ball and play defense........which is why they win every year

Answer 8

10-6 & storm into the play-offs. Remember, Cowher took them to the play-offs his first season when everybody was saying, "Bill who?"

Answer 9

i think so, strong players coackh, defensive minded, as long as the qb is ok this will be a good team

Answer 10

Yeah but i have doubts about playoffs.