Steelers Chalk Talk - December 23, 2023

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Episode Transcript

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Coach. Oh, I don't think. Yeah, I don't think he's a
great coach at all. He's anice coach and he's a to me.
And I've said this, I said, he's really a great cheerleader. Guy.
I don't know what he does,but I don't think Huttle up,
Steelers Nation. It's tank for Steelerschalk talk here on Fox Sports netw Wheeling,

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Pittsburgh fourteen under the am. Yeah, that's where you get landed on
your AM stations. You were justscanning through and now you got some mad
man about the screen for the nexthour about the state of the Union of
the Pittsburgh Steelers. My team,your team, our team, one,

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two, three, four. UnitedStates Marine Corps our corps, your cores,
our corps. We feel like Marinessometimes, don't we. Steelers Nation,
Huh, we are the biggest,baddest cats out there in the jungle.
I mean, sure, you couldbe an Arizona Cardinals fan or a

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Jacksonville Jaguars fan. Ain't the sameas being enlisted in the United States of
Steelers Nation. Baby, you gottattoos up your left arm, down your
right arm. You had all sixtrophies on your back you're leaving space for
seven and eight. That's Steelers Nation, man, that's Steelers Nation. And

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I gotta tell you something, SteelersNation ain't happy these days. Even adamant
Mike Tomlin fans are saying politely,maybe his time has passed. Whereas more

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vocal fans who have well, theyleft the bus station years ago when even
Terry Bradshaw saw it and said MikeTomlin's a cheerleader. In twenty sixteen,
those fans got off the Tomlin trainbecause they got off in Cleveland and Baltimore
because they saw the train, theTomlin train, heading down the tracks and

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eventually gonna wreck. And boy,is it come off the rails. I
don't even know where to begin.You all know the problems. He's lost
the locker room. He's got Laureland Hardy there, Hughey and Dewey,
Deontay and George Pickens doing whatever theywant, whenever they want. You know,

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That's what the nut jobs over inWest penn psych do you know when
they get out at three in themorning, they bust out of their cells
and the psyche patients are nuts andthey're roaming around the halls over there.
Western psychiatric kids do. They dowhatever they want, whatever they want.
They get naked and they shave alltheir body hair off them and they run

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around and going, look at me, I'm a flamingo. I'm a flamingo.
I'm a Wallas. You said youwere out flamingo. I'm a Wallris.
Now you know crazy stuff? Whoamongst us in Steelers Nation won't say
that. Huey and Dewey and Louisand Laurel and Hardy, Deontay and George.

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He might need to go over toWestern psych get some meds because they're
ill, acting a little nutty.Not since le Garrett Blunt and uh maybe
on Bell were blowing down the Islandpark Bridge smoking weed heading to the airport
to go to a game, havewe seen such nuttiness from a pair of

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Steelers. I have my opinions.We're gonna get to them later in a
show. It's an hour long.I can r and all I want,
but it's time to hear from SteelersNation. More so you folks who are
on our Facebook page and our YouTubepage. If you're not on there,
please do like them. Steelers ChalkTalk, Tank Tantler, Mike McMahon,

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the former NFL quarterback Mike's off againthis week. It is Christmas, so
I sent him Christmas shopping. Geta pair of slippers or socks. You
ever see the socks? Hey,hey, you got the toes in them
with the big toe goes in ayeah, yeah, that's what I want.
I don't take a pee campaign instead, but want to hear from Steelers

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Nation. So what we're gonna doin this segment, I'll tell you what
I had wrote or what picture Iposted on our Steelers Chalk Facebook page,
and seriously go there and like itour YouTube. Steelers Nation. You're not
afraid to let your comments go,So that's where we're gonna pick it up.

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Your comments. Well, you SteelersShock Talk Nation fans, and see
what you have to think about.Well, the state of the union of
Steelers Nation. All right, soI posted just three days ago, I've
been posting pictures of the Chief,Yeah, Reny, because this is his
football team. It is it's theChief's football team. First, so quotes.

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I put get Tomlin in my officenow and tell him to bring his
playbook. Now, if you knowfootball, old school football, that's vernacular,
tell him to bring his playbook foryou're out of here. You're cut,
You're off the team, Curtis.He just chimed him and said,
damn right, Mark, Hey,hell, yes, well there you go,

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and you got about fifteen other ofyou is coming in with hearts and
thumbs up. Okay, that's apretty strong strong indictment there about well the
state of the union for mister Rooneyright now, and the way he sees
things looking down from high and heavenabove. You know, Betty English,

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she always charmes in and she's anice lady. I think I'd like to
have tea and crumpets with Betty English. You know, she keeps it nice,
she keeps it polite. But postedthe most embarrassing moments from another Steeler's
lost when we lost to the Patriotsa couple of weeks ago. Betty just

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chimed in and put pray, pray. I agree with you, Betty.
It is Christmas and miracles are answeredby the good Lord above. But here's
the thing, Betty, I don'tknow what we're praying for. I just
don't, your good heart. I'msure is just that we get back to

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normal with black and gold. MeI'm seeing it different. I'm praying for
a new head coach for New Year'sBetty so another art Rooney the Chief post,
and again I used the Chief's faceon our Steeler's chalk Up Facebook page.
This quote said, the Chief ain'thappy. The Chief wants solutions to

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the problems. So let's hear fromyou Steelers Nation, how do you fix
our beloved franchise man. We gotclose to twenty likes from and loves from
that. Samantha Oliver loved that.Becky and Ken you gave it hearts.
But Frank march Key bet he's Italian. Frank Frank wrote they have the horses,

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but they just don't know where togo. You know, I gotta
agree with Frank. I've said itsince the beginning of the season, when
and it seems like a million yearsago, we were screaming fire. Todd
Haley, I mean Todd Haley,Randy Fiekner, Matt Canada, they're all

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the same. Tomlin hired them andthey stunk. And again, as I've
been saying, Thiefner and Canada wereso bad, they made Haley look good.
He's stunk. I don't care whatanybody says. Most people would say
Todd Haley knew what he was doing. Don't know jack about football. Under
Todd Haley's reign, they should havebeen to two Super Bowls, not saying

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they would have won him he hadthe killers, b's in the best offensive
line and a damn stout defense.Don't tell me Todd Haley's a good oc
anyway, asking Steeler's nation, howdo you fix the problems? What's wrong?
Steeler fan for life? Man?He was, he's rough. Came

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in with Rooney's don't care. Rooneysdon't care. I guess that's alluding to,
uh, they just like money.Elaine, oh Lane, see I
like you. Clean house, saysElaine, clean House. That's the solutions
to your Pittsburgh Steelers. Greg Stossel, Well, he gull Capital's fire.

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Who's this t m L I nnever heard of him? Fire Tomlin,
says Greg Stossel. Uh, Ilike Elaine sees clean house too. Everybody's
got to go in that scenario,even Steely mcbeams gotta hit the road because
he ain't pulling away, says thatchief So three disastrous Titanic. You ever

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heard of that? There little dinghythe Titanic, You know a little dinghy
up there to the North Atlantic,leaving out Ireland northern Belfast. Yeah,
everything's good. Everything's fine. Everything'sgood. Everything's fine. We're gonna get
to New York record time. Everything'sfine. Iceberg, boom sink. Everybody's

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dead on the Titanic. Three lossesin a row to a bunch of cupcakes.
Anyway, after the Patriots, whateverit was, Bill Belichick owns Mike
Tomman. You know that Bill Belichickis like the school bully in fifth grade
with Mike Tomlin. Every day hesees him just before lunch and he go.

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Belichick goes, well, he mumbles, he just give me hear me
milk even miney give me your milkmoney, And Tolman does, I can't
understand you. Then Belichick gets reallyupset and does give me money, give
me money. So Mike Tolland givesBill Belichick and Bill Belichick does. Don't

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go anywhere. Wait right here,Terry. I think Mike Tomlins still needs
to prove he's a great coach.Oh I don't think Yeah, I don't
think he's a great coach at all. He's a he's a nice coach and
he's a to me. And I'vesaid this, I said he's he's really
a great cheerleader guy. I don'tknow what he does, but I I

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don't think that he's a great coachat all. Never even his name never
even pops in my mind when wethink about great coach coaches in the NFL.
The coach before him, Bill Coward. Did you think Bill was a
great coach. I think Bill Billcame in. Yeah, I think Bill
was. Bill was. I thinkBill came in and took over a team
that had been struggling. And whenyou take over for Chuck and you know,

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even though even the Steelers had somegood years, really good years,
and then they kind of, youknow, by their standards, kind of
mellowed out, and at Chuck's endof Chuck's career, incomes Coward. Coward
kind of gave him that boost toget him back up and win a Super
Bowl. So Coward, I havemore identity with Coward than I do Tomlin.
I know Coward when he came overfrom Kansas City as a defensive coordinator,

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I believe down there and his histeams were tough. Tomlin came in
from Minnesota and I didn't know anythingabout him. So maybe it's unfair for
me to make the comparison, it'sunfair. I happen to agree with Terry
Hoage game Well. I think MikeTomlin plays in the best organization in professional
sports. I think they he hasthe greatest support system in professional sports.

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I think the Rooney organization, theRooney family has put from Dick Lebow,
you know, to now Todd Haley. I go up and down on but
they've provided him with the proper coachingsupport, and I just don't think he's
maxed it out. The guy mismanagesas the clock. I think he gets
over aggressive a lot of times andplays from his gut rather than what is

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strategically sound, and it bites himin the rear in and that's why they've
only got one playoff win in thelast five years. Maybe the tradition of
the Pittsburgh Steelers is done. Maybeit needs to be formed a new kind
of way. I don't know,Like who's who's grabbing someone by the face
mask and being like, uh uh, that's no, that's not what we
do. That's not what we do. Is that happening. You have guys

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on defense done it, but youneed guys on both sides of the ball
doing it. You need someone tostand up in that room on offense and
be like, hey, this isn't. This isn't what it means to wear
the Black and Gold, believe,whether it's golf, whether it's hockey,
whether it's boxing, whether it's ourbeloved black and Gold, who I've loved

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since I pedal up on my littleevil canevil bicycle in Trobe where I grew
up and go watch Steelers training camp. I remember the first day I ever
saw the Chief, mister Rooney standingthere smoking a cigar. My dad goes,
you know, Dad, isn't Iknow mister Rooney was really cool.
How you doing a little lad?Rub my hair? The point I'm saying

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is there's a lot of junk,garbage, bone efications not there on sports
talking podcasts. For Ben Roethlisberger tocome out and say what he said,

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that the Steelers might be done isthe loudest thing that has been said this
year in sports talk other than otherother than Joe namous accusations, other than

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John Ram's five hundred million dollar dealwith the Live Tour, especially if you
bleed black and gold, This statementby Ben Roethlisberger, who would know better
than anyone else goes and buy chocolatemilk, comes back and fish Face dumps

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the chocolate milk. Oliver Mike Tomlin, he owns him, owns him of
all the times not to get ownedby the Patriots and Bill Belichick. Fish
Face, it was that game froma score You're Pittsburgh Steelers eighteen, that
being Eaters of Boston twenty one.Real simple. Mark chimes in. Trade

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Tomlin to the Panthers at the endof the season. It's time again.
I'm just covering what your thoughts areon everything. Hey, you're listening to
stealing shok talk. I'm Tank Tantalingerhere on Fox Sports Net Wheel in Pittsburgh,
turning in every Saturday morning at tenam. I might start talking about
badminton soon. Badminton's a great game. Plus you gotta play at warm weather

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might be better. Do we havea badminton team here in Pittsburgh. You
know it just continues, It continues, the insanity right now down the road
we go, week after week afterweek, year after year. Mike Tomlin's

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playoff history two thousand and seven toone and done to Dave Gerrand. Two
thousand and eight should have been ouryear. Tom Brady blew out his acl

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went on to win a Super Bowl. Anyway. You know, I was
just gonna go through this whole list. You know the deal, Tim Tebow,
two, Thoy and eleven lights itup against US, Lights it up,
back up, AJ McCarey. Intwenty fifteen, we lost to the

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I don't want to go through allthis, man. You know the deal,
the loss to the Jaguars. Twentytwenty, lost against Baker Mayfield.
All right, hey, you're listeningto Steel as Chalk Talk here on Fox
Sports Netwheeling. I'm Tanker. We'regonna come back to Christmas edition. We're

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gonna read some emails off our YouTubepage. Boy, people getting really hostile
on YouTube. So holidays, folks. Lighting up. There's a cowboy in
the jungle and it looks out ofplaces. Wear this shrimp skin boots and

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his cheek shoe roots and his skinas white as page Headingside the path we
wear the gauchoes sing and shout.Now you're stuck in four dube bell loos
since his money all run out,so he hangs out with the sailors.

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Not indeed they raising him and hisoriginal destinations just another story that he loves
to tell. With no plans forthe future, he still seems in control.

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From a broncle ride to attend foodtime. He just had learned role
roll with hunches, lead all ofhis hunches, made the best of whatever
came his way. What you likeand ambition he made up with them,

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tuition flowing straight, his come withme steel band and distance and their music
floats across to me while the Mikanwomen and loos told about all the things

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he did and their husbands quacked abye fish as this love with rum drinks
down discussing who codwood and who saton his bud. But it's the only
shoe coach, Oh, I don'tthink Yeah, I don't think he's a
great coach at all. He's ahe's a nice coach, and he's a

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to me. And I've said this, I said, he's he's really a
great cheerleader. Guy. I don'tknow what he does, but I I
don't think all right, Hell,hell, Welcome back to Steelers Chalk Talk.
I'm your host, Randy the TankTamtlander here every Saturday morning at ten
am on Fox Sports Net Wheel inPittsburgh. Thanks for listening the ups and

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the downs and the downs and thedowns, and the downs and the downs.
Will there be in the ups leftin this season? Will Steely McBean
relived the playoff glory years of theseventies? Will Art ruining the second and
get his head out of his keyster? Will the Pittsburgh Steelers realize they're the

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Pittsburgh Steelers and not the Pittsville mudKittens or whatever the hell they've been playing?
Like? Hey, so last segmentwe went through, and I really
appreciate you folks that listen to theshow, that subscribed to Steelers Talk Talk
Facebook and now arking to our YouTubepaid. So this is kind of my

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way saying thank you, because thereain't really much talk about after zero and
three, and god knows what theBengals are gonna do today down in Hinesfield.
So it's kind of my way tosaying thanks for interacting with us.
So please do like our Steelers ChalkTalk YouTube page and Facebook page YouTube.

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We past all the videos. MeMan, my partner, former NFL quarterback.
He's a good looking one. I'mthe dumb looking Irish guy when you
see the picture. Anyway, Iposted a video and commentary and fired Tomlin.
He killed the Steelers cultured standard inDynasty close to one thousand views with

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lots of comments, So I'm gonnaread some of these comments. Dunksta dunstack,
Oh, I like that, DunkstaDunkstas says, I'll always remember Tomlin
for many times he called an emptybackfield shotgun on third down and two and
failed. So many games lost fromdoing that. Horsepucky. Yeah, I

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remember the empty backfield doing it withBen's last couple of years. It was
ridiculous. It was no way torun on offense. Neither was mac Canada's
jet Sweet Jet Sweet Jet Sweet.James Calger two five eight one, three
days ago, I've wanted to Tomlinfire for the last seven or so years

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because I believe that he wasted thesecond half of bigs Ben's career. You
know, I gotta argue that aswell. James, And for a lot
of you listen to the show,you say, how can you say that
Ben was the one playing Listen,Mike Tomlin was the one that hired Maccanada,

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Randy Feiefner and Todd Haley. Again, Fiefner and Canada are so bad.
They made my Todd Haley look good. I assure you kitty cats.
He wasn't. The Steelers' offense wasgood. It had the Killer Bees,
that had Mike Munchak's offensive line.Boy, could we use Mike Munchak now?

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Mike Tomlin wasted the second half ofBen's career. They had all the
tools, ab was normal. Burfetthad to hit him. Yet they should
have been to a super Bowl.There's only so much your quarterback can do
when your head coach is doing nuttythings like bringing in Todd Haley. Do

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you know Todd Haley never played adown of football in his life. Now,
once you ingest that, do whateveryou want with it. Okay,
half you out there went, thatdon't matter matters to me. I've been
lit up on a football field sohard on a kickoff return suicide squad that

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I had a crawl to the sidelinesand throw up. Knowing what the game
feels like goes a long way.Do you remember when on a snowy day
in Buffalo, Todd Haley ran Le'Veonbell like thirty four times, No wonder,
Le'Veon Bell wanted more money thirty fourtimes. Let me tell you something,

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let me if you don't think that'sa lot and you don't understand how
stupid Todd Haley was to do that. Let me get a baseball bat and
I get to whack you thirty fourtimes. You can put on shoulder pads,
pads in a helmet. Okay,I promise only to hit you in
the pads as hard as I can. Then you might understand how stupid Todd

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Haley was and how stupid it wasto run him thirty four times. And
Mike Tomlin hired him all right.Going back to responses to our Steelers shock
Talk YouTube page, my video fiedTomlin, he killed the Steelers culture,
standard and dynasty True Spirit nineteen twentyfive. I can tell since twenty ten

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that Tomlin has destroyed the Steeler's way, true Spirit's going back to twenty ten.
I don't do math real well,but it's New Year's e practically that's
fourteen years ago. User. IfBen durnerztz eight says Ben for head coach,

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maybe maybe I can go for that. I mean, if you give
Ben Roethlisberger oh See duties head coachingduties for five years with no expectations of
a super Bowl or even playoffs,what the hell's that matter? We don't
go to playoffs anymore. Do youthink he at least gets the Steelers culture

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back? Yeah? I do too. Ooh, here's a charging indictment.
Oh fuck, all right, here'sthe most charging indictment. Matt Burton three

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two three three. He says Tomlinroad Cowers seat tails for his first Super
Bowl, then benefited from having aHall of Fame quarterback to finish as the
coach who has never had a losingseason up until now. I put that
in there, Matt Burton finishes,we can do better. Chocolate natural Suite

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answered Matt Burton and said Cower onlywon one Super Bowl title coaching the Steelers,
and he was with the team forfifteen seasons, so you're not saying
much now, Coach, No,I had four Cowery's riding off of Knowles
dynasty and Tomlin off of him withone super Bowl. Be realistic. He's

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the best coach, not at KERB. But you know you like the roonies.
Just don't throp coaches anyway. Chocolatenaturally sweet obviously is sweet for Mike
Tomlin. You know, I findthat most of the ladies no offense ladies.
There's probably a few guys out theretoo that our adamant. Mike Tomlin

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defenders are probably a little sweet onhim. I mean, he is good
at looking guy, he is articulate, and he has worth a hundred million
dollars. H all right, MattBurton just was so angry. I guess
he had a Oh he answered chocolatenaturally sweet by saying, commented on it

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between Cower and Tomlin is ben boy. Ain't that a lot of truth in
that? But hey, I thinkTomlin couldn't even carry Bill Cowers cleats.
All right? This video I postedon Steeler's chalk Talk on YouTube is up
to seventy thousand views in two days. I just posted it. The heading

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says Mike Tomlin, mister Rooney,wake up. Terry Bradshaw, Ben Roethlisberger
were calling it like they see ityears ago. So if you go to
the video, it's Terry Bradshaw talkingabout me and it took over a team
that had been struggling. And whenyou take over for chucking. And you
know though, even Terry Bradshaw talkingin twenty sixteen, we all know what

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he said that Mike Tomlin was nota good coach, he was just a
cheerleader. Then you get into Ben'sYou know, some people are so stupid.
I'm sorry. I got to saythis. Ben's comments last week that
just shook tidle waves for Steelers Nation. One guy said that Ben Roethlisberger was

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not talking about Mike Tomlin last weekwhen he talked about, you know,
the Steelers being done and that nobodyholds anybody accountable. Are you a moron
mister who wrote that I'm not goingto evoke his name on here? Are
you an idiot? No offense,It's Christmas, But seriously, man,

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maybe you ate too many paint chipsas a kid, or we're licking the
glue with the tongue depressor in thethird grade to stick stars on a piece
of paper. Man, that youdon't understand that when Ben Roethlisberger made his
statements last week that the Steelers mightbe done and that the franchise has all

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kinds of problems, that lays squarelyon his feet. Pittsburgh Steelers is done.
Maybe it needs to be formed anew kind of way. I don't
know, like who's who's grabbing someoneby the face mask and being like uhh
yeah, that's no, that's notWe're gonna do something. We do is
that happening. You have guys ondefense, Doty, but you need guys
on both sides of the ball,Dory if you need someone to stand up

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in that room. All right,now he is talking there about offensive players.
Somebody be a leader. Somebody bea leader. But when you listen
to the totality of Ben's our show, he squarely is going after Tomlin and

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destroying the culture of the Pittsburgh Steelers. There's nobody else to blame. Who
do you think created the Green BayPackers culture? His name's on a little
trophy up there, Vince Lombardi.What you're seeing play out now is Mike

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Tomlin's leadership. All right. Iwant to get to some of these comments.
Might have to pick him up inthe third, but mister Rooney,
wake up. Terry Bradshaw, BenRoethlisberger were calling it like they see it.
So Steven Scott wrote, when peopleask me if Coward was a great

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coach, I have to say,yeah. Six AFC championship appearances in thirteen
season. He took a struggling organizationand made it relevant. Did he have
trouble winning the big games? Yeah, yeah he did. But eventually he
got there and did it. Tomlinwas very wise not to do much when
he first arrived, and he tookthe stacked team and let the coordinators and

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the players run the team. Nowthat everyone from the Calar era is gone,
we are left with Tomlin's in printfully on the team. The team
has been non relevant since twenty ten. Three playoff wins in what thirteen season?
This is a prime example of Tomlin'sstandard is the standard? Yeah,

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he made it seven times in thirteenseasons, but did nothing when his team
showed up. They have never replacedCasey Hampton and outside of the Munchet coach
O line era, they have sufferedon the O line since two thousand and
nine. Also, if you wantfurther evidence, I also judge coaches off

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of their playoff record and their coachingtree. Look at how many of his
coordinators were even hired as head coachesin the league. Zero if you don't
count bros Arians and I don't,who was not a Mike Tomlin hire man.

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That says a lot. Hey,this is Tank Tantler. You're listening
to Steelers chalk Talk here on youknow what. You're listening to Fox Sports
Net Wheeling, Pittsburgh. It's Christmasshow. And I'm just saying thank you
to your your fans. My fansare funs fans, one two, three,
four, our core, your carUnited States Marine Corps met Christmas to

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all the Marines, soldiers and sailorsand coast guards and airmen across the world.
You are appreciated young men and womenfor sure. All Right, when
we get back, we're gonna pickup talking a salute to you Steelers Nations
man, you stealers chalk talk fans, and say thank you by reading some

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of your comments. But but youknow, he said, he said death
threats, he said nasty things,whatever, and and unfortunately that it's unfortunately
that happened because there's no there's noplaces, and it's a sport. Guys.
Again, we'd love all your fanslike we play for you guys.
We want you guys to be happy, you want you all enjoy it.
But at the end of the day, it's not life, man, This
is this is is what we do. It's not who we are. So

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if that, if that really didhappened, which I don't, I take
that man for his word. He'sa good, honest person, man,
I know him. I'm sorry thatthat happened to you, Miles, and
I'm glad that you got some redemptionon a block punting and doing what you
do best. But you know,I'm sorry for your family had to deal
with that. But but I wasso happy for him to get that.

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That was really, I mean aturning point too in the game, because
he gave us a short field whereyou know, they were doing whatever they
kind of wanted and if they puntit down, we gotta we gotta go
to length of the field. Again, that's not gonna be easy thing to
do, I don't think. So. Big play there which kind of got
us back into the game and andand made it a game, I think,
Yeah, no, I totally agree. Thanks. Hey, welcome back

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to Steelers Chalk Talk. I'm TankSaturday mornings ten am here on Fox Sports
Net Wheel in Pittsburgh. You know, it's the end of the year for
us here at this Christmas and theyears are coming, and I just want
to say thank you to all thefans that listen to the show and of
course subscribe to our Steelers Chalk TalkFacebook page and YouTube page. Mike McMahon,

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that's all on my NFL Quarterback andI filmed a promo for some lucky
winner that would win the Jack LambertJack Lambert jersey still got that tags on
it baby by Centennial Suret. Atthe end of this segment, I'm gonna
announce this year's winner. She'll havetwo weeks to get a hold of me

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if she, Oh, oh,I let have the cat out of the
bag. There, Sorry, getback into the bag. Cat, get
back in there. No, getback in there. So at the end
of this segment, I will announcethe winner of that jersey. She will
have two weeks to get back tous. I think she listens and comments

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all the time, so she mightget it. After that two weeks,
we will have to choose another winnerand we will announce them. So here's
Mike and I right now horsing aroundfor the promo. All right, So
there you go. Somebody at theend of this segment, I'm gonna announce

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his or her name is gonna winthat Jack Lambert jersey, tags on it
and everything by Centennial Jersey. Ifyou're listening on the radio now, you
didn't see it, all right,So what I'm doing is thanking you guys
with the jersey and going through andreading comments off of our Facebook and YouTube

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page. I posted a video.It's up to seventy thousand hits. Mister
Rooney, wake up, Terry Bradshaw, Ben Roethlisberger's calling it like they see
it. Seventy thousand people. Theone guy, Steven Scott eight oh one
five man. He elicited a lotof comments. I'll read parts of Steve's

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comments than people going after him,and it's supporting him anyway. Bottom line
is he says color was a bettercoach six AFC championship appearances in thirteen season.
Tomlin doesn't even compare to that.He just goes on about you know
he you know Tomlin won the SuperBowl. Bill Cower's team. We've heard

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that. I believe that munchat coachDarrow line should have been the Super Bowls.
They haven't been the same. Thenhe goes, of course, goes
into the coaching tree. There isnone for Mike Tomlin charging indictments well,
Purple Impact Strategy says folks keep sayinghe inherited a great team. Purple Strategy

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says, he inherited an old teamon its last leg. But so let's
look around San Francisco. Shanahan inheriteda good team. He got lucky with
Purdy, but all the time hehas was already there, Warren, Kettle's
DBO, etc. They traded formccarthen Williams, but nobody says he inherited
a good team. But with Tomlinthey say he do. Oh well,

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he only won because he inherited agood team. Uh yeah, Purple,
that's the only reason he won.I agree all right. Js Yt says
Cower was a great coach. Theonly coach took a QB and made him
slash. Cordell lost to Elway,who went on to win back to back
Super Bowls, and Cordell lost tobeing one of the great Duna what you're

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talking about. We're trying to talkabout Tomlin there, Buddy, d H.
Miller Bingo. I'm tired of everyone'ssaying Tomlin is a defensive guy.
Mike Tomlin played wide receiver from PopWarren until he left college. Why do
you think he nails it in thedraft? For the most part, Tony
Jungey gave an opportunity after one ortwo years of experience on the defensive side

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of the ball. That's interesting.I didn't know that. I thought Tomlin
played defensive back of William and Mary. Coward did inherit some good players from
Chuck, Nole, wob Woods,and Cardinal Lake. Huh. Cam X
says every team has some good playerson it, but the Steelers were a

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mess, Wow, a mess.When Coward was hired, he turned it
around and built it back up.Tom succeeded early on because he didn't screw
up what Coward did, but sincethen he's been there to cash a paycheck
and has screwed it up. Wow. Yeah, I agree with that.

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D Q Miller says, true,but Chuck didn't see his super Bowl with
those young cats. Bill installed newwrinkles to their three four scheme when Tomlin
got Cowards players. Most of thatgroup was still intact from a Super Bowl
just two years prior. Well stokenall right again. Terry originally commented that

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Tomlin inherited a good team basically sayshe's not a good coach. Uh,
Kelly right, Noll eight one sevenone says Terry is one correct. Now
Terry got twenty four replies on ourYouTube plage. Uh again, there's some

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stupid people out there. I don'teven want to dress this guy's comment and
it's still true. Today what TerryBradshaw says, he's a cheerleader. He's
not a great coach. Bottom line, he's a player's yuck it up with
the fellows coach, as Bradshaw calledhim, he's a cheerleader. Wow.

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Flex two times says Mike has onlyhad a bad has never had a bad
season, So only it would callonly an idiot would call him a bad
coach. All right, Flexo,I gotta comment back to you, Palmland
sucks and needs to be fired.Don't you know he has a great front
office and a great scouting department.Don't you know he inherited Bill Cowers teams.

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You can defend them all you want, there, Cupcake, ninety percent
of us in Steelers Nation think he'sgotta go. Steven Scott responded to Flex
by saying the team has been nonrelevant since twenty ten. Three playoff wins
in what now thirteen seasons is aprime example Tomlin's standard. Wow, huh,

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here's one dk WR five WX.Let's do a little history lesson.
At the end of the twenty elevenseason, the organization decides they want to
preserve their quarterback's career, so theymake a change at OC to stop him
from getting hit so much. Theidiot quarterback loves the outgoing OC and is

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mad about the change so much showthat he shows it by not trying to
get on board with the new OCHayley. Despite his attempts to disrupt the
offense, meaning Ben Roethlisberger, thenew offense is successful. Wow, are
you a more on DK at puttingup points and keeping him from getting hit

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so much? Still, Ben Roethlisbergerdoesn't like the OC, but he loves
the quarterback coach Figner, So atthe end of seventeen season, they get
rid of the OC that the quarterbackdoesn't like even though he's doing a good
job, which leads to what youhave here today. Instead of listening to
the aging quarterback Ben Roethlisberger who startedlosing his deep ball around twenty sixteen,

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losing not gone go watch the fifthhe says, they would have been in
a much better place. So thismoron DK says that Ben Roethlisberger since twenty
eleven is the reason you're Pittsburgh Steelersand we're no ding good. Wow,

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I have heard some bullpucky on thisshow. I've read some bullpucky on this
show. DK. I'm sure yourmother loves you. I'm sure your baby
Roth Wilder named Steve loves you.My friend, with all due respect in
regards to a football discussion, yourhead is so far up your third point

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of contact. The reason your Hallof Fame quarterback Ben Roethlisberger didn't like Todd
Haley. Todd Haley sucked. MattCanada, Randy Fiekner, We're bad.
They were so bad they made Haleylook good. He sucked. Todd Haley

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screwed up that offense so bad theyshould have been too. Two Super Bowls
with munchacks line, the Killer Bees, Ben Roethlisberger, Hall of Famer,
and that defense. It was ToddHaley who decided to pitch the ball back
four yards to the right during theplayoff game on fourth and inches, the

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opportunity to win and move forward andgo to a Super Bowl. Todd Haley
thinks, Ah, I am sosmart. Instead of having my six foot
six, two hundred and sixty poundquarterback and pads and cleats get behind pouncy
for six inches, Hi, ToddHaley, I'm a genius and I'm gonna

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pitch the ball back to the rightfour yards. This will stun the dev
and so oh bunch, we willget those six inches Steelers Nation. Do
you remember how that worked out?So dkw R five WX, congratulations,

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you get the Moron of the Dayaward. Now here's the funny thing arcing
back. Okay, look, folks, well you listening to Steelers Chalk Talk
here on Fox Sports met Wheeling,Pittsburgh. I'm tank just want to say
thanks to all you listening to theshow. Those of you like our YouTube
page, like our Facebook page SteelersChalk Talk, just making this show about

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you. I posted a video that'sup to seventy thousand hits that says mister
Rooney fire Mike Tomlin. One ofthe first responses to that was a gentleman
who outlined why Tomlin should be fired, playoff appearances, ocs, all that.

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So we're going through and responding.I'm reading the responses. You know
how you all get into it backand forth on YouTube and Facebook. So
one guy who I just read whowins the Moron of the Year award DKWR
five WX sure his mother loves him. I'm sure your mom loves you.
And I love you, brothers thatChristian, I love you. Just having

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some good football talk here, Okaysays it. Ben Roethlisberger's the reason since
twenty eleven they didn't go anywhere becausehe fought with Todd Haley. Todd Haley
sucked. Next comment under that Ididn't even see that. I like this
guy. He gets a cookie,he responds to DK to Moron bye twelve

(47:45):
forty. Don't forget the OC.Todd Haley ran the same kind of bleep
bleep bleep sweat sweeps to the shortside of the field all the time.
And what I've just saying. Apitch play on fourth and four in the
playoff game never used the QB snakeand is the origin of all horrible plays

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calls this organization has been dealing withfor six years. The only time his
offense had any life is when thequarterback Ben Roethlisberger took matters into his own
hands and called his own plays.Wow, Bane, I love you.
You are a genius. Well,I could go on and on and on.

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There are a lot of comments,as you can imagine with seventy thousand
views, Hey, do us afavor if you like the show, Mike
and I do again. Mike playedat the highest level NFL quarterback. I
sat on the bench at pit rightbeside the mascot, never saw the field,
but I like to think I knowwhat I'm talking about. I've coached
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(49:25):
her as my grandmother. This lookslike a lovely lady. Where are you
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Say hey, tang, I heardI want the jersey and I'm gonna mail
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the Jack Lambert Jersey. Anita,Well, she posted the Pittsburgh Steelers of
the seventies, the Steel Curtain,unquestionably the greatest defense in NFL history.
And there he's that bit you JackLambert himself. You kind of love that
man. All right, we're gonnaget that out to Anita. Guys,

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Merry Christmas, God bless you.May the mercy and love of our Lord
Jesus Christ be with you and yoursthis holiday season. And from Mike and
myself, God bless Anita, MerryChristmas. No needs to prove he's a
great coach. Oh, I don'tthink. Yeah, I don't think he's
a great coach at all. He'sa he's a nice coach, and he's

(50:36):
a to me. And I've saidthis, I said, he's really a
great cheerleader. Guy. I don'tknow what he does, but I I
don't think that he's a great coachat all. Never even his name never
even pops in my mind when wethink about great coach coaches in the NFL,
the coach before him,