Peat
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- Jun 14, 2016
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Yeah I think players have time and time again proven that they aren’t great judges of talent. Just look at some of top 100 lists as voted by players and you’ll see some real head scratchers.
I don’t doubt that they’ve made their opinion known on the QB situation internally but I wonder if this was a case of Tomlin/Khan coming to them and being like “Hey we want to bring in Wilson, do you mind talking to him and making a pitch on why he should come to Pittsburgh?”
I wondered that so I checked and this report makes it sound like Heyward was pushing for him rather than just agreeing to sell the Steelers to Wilson.
I think this all goes back to Tomlin. We've had this discussion a ton of times, but Tomlin's hands-off style worked great when they had that established group of leaders that he inherited from the Cowher Steelers teams. But as those guys retired, the new guys just didn't step into their spots to take those leadership roles, and I think the locker room greatly declined due to it.
It is Tomlin's job to step in at that point, which is why the failure of leadership is ultimately on him, but I think it's understandable considering what he was when he first came in as the coach.
Yup.
Which is part of why I want him gone. The job in front of him isn't a job he's done successfully and so far he doesn't seem to be getting to grips with it. Maybe he's just learned and the more disciplinarian coaching staff will be joined by less control over the offence, and maybe having a veteran QB will give him breathing space to get to grips to with the challenge of rebuilding a team... but I'm not confident and I don't think his first effort earned the benefit of the doubt.