It’s easy to get overly emotional and to react accordingly in the moment. The Pittsburgh Steelers coming off an ugly, disappointing loss to a team they should be better than will heighten the rhetoric regardless of what the real sense might be.
The sudden widespread calling for head coach Mike Tomlin’s job, according to former NFL WR James Jones, is a product of that. “It’s absolutely crazy to even have Coach Tomlin’s name in anything like this”, he said during a Speak panel yesterday debating the merits of retaining the 17-year head coach.
While he naturally invoked the “no losing seasons”, talking about that gets far too much attention from both sides of the argument.