Letter to the editor: Steelers shouldn't put up with Tomlin's losses

When will the Steelers wake up and fire Coach Mike Tomlin??

Tomlin continually gets out-coached in the playoffs as evidenced by now going six years without a playoff win. Under Tomlin, the Steelers have only had three playoff wins in 12 years.

I am so sick of hearing the mantra “Tomlin has never had a losing season.” Under Tomlin the Steelers have had three 8-8 seasons; I wouldn’t call an 8-8 record and missing the playoffs a “winning season.”

Many have blamed the Steelers’ lack of game planning woes on Tomlin’s assistant coaches instead of on Tomlin himself. Tomlin is the one who hires his coaches; in the end, it’s Tomlin who has oversight on offensive and defensive game planning … or lack there of.

Remember when the Eagles fired Andy Reed for not making it to the Super Bowl after four straight trips to the NFC championship game? Or when the Packers fired Mike McCarthy, who was two years removed from a Super Bowl win? McCarthy made the playoffs nine times in his 13 years with Green Bay, but that didn’t save him. The Chargers fired Marty Schottenheimer, who had the same problem as Tomlin with regard to not being able to win a playoff game, following a 14-2 regular season for once again losing in the first round of the playoffs.

Other teams don’t put up with a lack of success, and neither should the Steelers, who are now considered an easy outcome if they make it to the playoffs.

Jim Campbell

Dunbar