Rooney no meddler; Tomlin safe

By Bob Smizik

There’s no explaining, at least with the knowledge at hand, the reasoning behind the decision of Steelers president Dan Rooney to fire offensive coordinator Bruce Arians seemingly against the wishes of coach Mike Tomlin.

The best-case scenario explanation would be that it was just bad communications between Rooney and Tomlin. Perhaps, but if that were the case, there surely would have been some sort of explanation from the Steelers, and there was not.

Which leads to the belief, but not with total certainty, that the two men disagreed on Arians.

Which has led to two lines of speculation:

* Rooney is a meddler of the Jerry Jones/Daniel Snyder ilk.

* Tomlin is in trouble with Rooney.

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I don't think either one is true. I think Rooney fired BA because BA was being his arrogant self and pissed him off.
I think it was that simple. He made a snap decision and Tomlin got left out of the conversation. So on we go to bigger and better things. It is what it is.

I don't like this guy. He seems to talk from his ass a lot

Less speculation, more confirmations. Thank 'ya Bob!