Mike Tomlin and the Two Point Conversion

Being a Cowboys fan I enjoy watching the Steelers lose. Their play Sunday was abysmal, but if they had a good coach they would have at least had a chance in overtime. Instead Mike Tomlin did his damnedest to keep them out of overtime. I have come to the conclusion that he is an idiot. Not only that, he turns around and lies about the situation.

Situation:

You just scored a touchdown with 10:30 left in the 4th quarter, and the score is now 28-23, down by 5. There is A LOT of time left, but you decide that you better go for two since you may only have a chance for a field goal later (ignoring the fact that you just drove down the field and scored a TD on consecutive possessions with ease). Questionable in my book, but fine. Then you get penalized and instead of going for 2 from the 2 1/2 yardline you're now going for two from the 12 1/2, a far, far more difficult task. So, WHY NOT KICK?

Here's Mike Tomlin's reasoning. I highlighted in red the parts to pay attention to:

(Link: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/sports/steelerslivextra/learnmore/?sle_story_id=546149)

Why did you go for the two-point conversions?

We wanted to make sure we were up by at least a field goal, so if they kicked one it would only be a tie. Being up by two doesn’t serve any purpose. If we go 30-28, we still lose the game based on what transpired after. With the first one it was still irrelevant. It was the same quandary. It was insignificant if we got the one. Playing the charts, that is not out of bounds. That is just baseball. Everybody has that chart. I don’t know if there was 10 and a half minutes left. There were 10 and a half minutes left when we scored that first touchdown with Santonio (Holmes) and we kicked the extra point. It was six minutes on the one he is talking about. We were trying to get the score to three points. We were down by 11 and we scored, so it would have been down to three.

"Playing the charts"? "That is just baseball"? Are you on drugs Mike? This isn't baseball, jackass, it's football. As a coach your job is to coach the freaking game, not "play charts". Any minimum wage moron could "play charts". Then he goes on to show that his recollection of events doesn't match the game's timeline. So not only does he make a bonehead call and go for two with 10+ minutes remaining, in a post game interview he clearly lies about the situation.

Sorry Mike, the Holmes TD came on the 1^st play of the 4^th quarter. You went for two after the 2^nd TD of the 4^th with 10:29 left in the game as was stated - regardless of your recollection of the events, idiot. If he would simply fess up and say "yeah, I screwed up, sorry", I might give him another chance. Instead he defends his idiotic call by trying to make the situation a more dire one than it really was. What else can I say? If he was the Cowboys coach I’d be calling for his head.