It's absurd, but he partly reflects on that himself: "But more than anything, it was therapeutic for me. Some mindless entertainment. I'm not a big TV watcher. It allowed me to detach from the realities and the pressures of life."
replyThis guy makes good choices. While I get upset on Reddit, he's happy building his city. I need to rethink my life.
replyWhatever you do, don't take up Factorio.
replyFactorio is to me what Minecraft is to Mike Tomlin. I give it a full recommendation. Oh, is it autumn already?
replyWas a bit confused by a sibling comment before realizing their comment is narrowed down to the Playoffs.
replyOverall > 0.5 win rate each year: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/TomlMi0.htm
But after 2016, playoffs? Not so much.
Actually, one of the biggest criticisms of him is that he overperformed with bad teams.
replyThe NFL has a draft system where the worst team in the league gets the best pick in the next year's draft.
Tomlin dragging teams that should have won 2 or 3 games into the playoffs each year just to lose immediately meant that the Steelers never got any good draft picks and thus never improved the team year of year.
They were stuck in a purgatory of sorts.
Tomlin is a poster child of how hard it is to drop early impressions of someone. He came in as a hot shot, but after last season he was going on 8 years since a single playoff victory.
replyIt had also been 8 years since he had a decent QB. At some point it’s up to the GM to figure out how to get someone good.
replyHe stayed at the Steelers too long. He should have gone somewhere with a better QB, the Steelers should have bottomed out enough to be able to draft a good QB.
replyAndy Reid is retiring when he gets his 303rd regular season win. At nearly the same time, Tomlin is going to find he once again has the zest for coaching.
replyHe did the best with what he had, as all coaches in the NFL are bound to do. He dealt with a Big Ben playing well into his decline, then a bunch of 2nd and 3rd string QBs, and then the prima donna/flake Aaron Rodgers, which was likely the deciding point for his retirement. He could have had his pick of coaching jobs if he wanted, and the steelers record over his tenure was something most teams would dream of.
reply> The idea of any NFL head coach having time to do this, especially a winning one, is absurd.
replyDon't let the "gridset" bros lie to you: one can simultaneously have hobbies and leisure time while being productive and successful.
Being an NFL head coach is easily a 60+ hour a week job, especially if you want your team to be good (and the Steelers were consistently at least above average his entire tenure)
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