01-13-2022, 11:49 AM
(01-13-2022, 10:44 AM)GMDino Wrote: lol...0-2.
I've watched Steelers football my entire life. I supported Tomlin through all the "Rooney Rule" arguments and racism. But in the end if he had be as good a coach as the Yinzers think this team wouldn't have floundered like they did in the playoffs and would have a couple more Super Bowl wins.
I think anyone who makes this assumption vastly underestimates how hard it is to win a Super Bowl.
In the 21st century, only two coaches have won more than one Super Bowl - Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick. Andy Reid and Pete Caroll are the only other coaches who (like Tomlin) have even been to the big game more than once in the 2000s.
There have been 13 coaches in league history who have won more SBs than Tomlin, but by my count, only four of them accomplished the feat in the era of free agency and salary caps. Winning multiple championships became much harder after those things were established.
As Steeler fans who remember Chuck Noll and modern fans who have watched Bill Belichick, we are lulled into the fallacy of thinking that winning multiple Super Bowls is a realistic goal. But in reality, it's a very rare feat, made even more rare over the last few decades. Belichick's success is way more of an outlier than most give him credit for.
I'm not saying that Tomlin is without his faults. Far from it. But if you're going to say that a better coach would have won more Super Bowls than he has, I'd argue that history suggests there aren't too many of those guys out there.
