Steelers fire special teams coach, Everest

I heard it was because he wanted Fitzgerald type money....

Wallace108 wrote:

It's the AFC championship game. The Steelers are down by 2 points with 2 seconds on the clock. Suisham lines up for a 48-yard field goal to send the Steelers to the Super Bowl. How confident are you that he makes it?

I just hypothetically pooped my pants.

Gingerchip wrote:

I heard it was because he wanted Fitzgerald type money....

REPPED!

Wallace108 wrote:

Dodens Grav wrote:

And I think Suisham actually did have a couple of game winning kicks, like the Buffalo game in 2010 and the Colts game in 2011.

Correct. But in both those games, the score was tied. That's not the same kind of pressure as being down and needing a kick to win or at least send it to overtime. And those kicks were from 38 and 41 yards. Let's not put him in the Hall of Fame based on that.

It's the AFC championship game. The Steelers are down by 2 points with 2 seconds on the clock. Suisham lines up for a 48-yard field goal to send the Steelers to the Super Bowl. How confident are you that he makes it?

And I hypothetically just started crying NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I don't know about you, but I'm never confident with anybody with a kicker over 40 yards. I see no reason for Hrapmann to deserve any confidence at this point either when his career average in college was under 75%.

Dodens Grav wrote:

I don't know about you, but I'm never confident with anybody with a kicker over 40 yards. I see no reason for Hrapmann to deserve any confidence at this point either when his career average in college was under 75%.

I'm not exactly "confident" or even "comfortable" with him, just saying i'm impressed that he's made all of his kicks, and two of them we're in the clutch.

Dodens Grav wrote:

I don't know about you, but I'm never confident with anybody with a kicker over 40 yards. I see no reason for Hrapmann to deserve any confidence at this point either when his career average in college was under 75%.

Yeah, I have no reason to be confident in Hrapmann either. If they feel Suisham is the better of the two, then fine, Suisham keeps his job. But I don't want them to be content. I hope they keep looking for someone else, much like how we brought Reed in out of nowhere.

I'm liking that kid they have down there in Baltimore, but it's looking like he might beat out Cundiff.

The reason Steelers coach Mike Tomlin fired his special teams coach had nothing to do with special teams play

Ed Bouchette:

In today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gerry Dulac reports that his teams' performance had nothing to do with Al Everest getting canned. This is the second special teams coach Mike Tomlin has fired. If he doesn't watch it, he'll keep pace with Bill Cowher's record with special teams coaches.

http://sulia.com/channel/pittsburgh-steelers/f/a3304525-0c02-4fc1-a0aa-85229d0be5a5/?source=twitter

It is odd, but i'll definitely give Tomlin the BOTD. He knows how to field a Super-Bowl team, and I trust in his decisions.

bayz101 wrote:

It is odd, but i'll definitely give Tomlin the BOTD. He knows how to field a Super-Bowl team, and I trust in his decisions.

Yeah, I'm sure he had a good reason. It just seems that the reason isn't related to how well Everest was doing his job.