Tomlin: Steelers Won’t Make Change at Offensive Coordinator ‘At This Juncture’

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin promised changes after his team’s 30-6 loss to the Houston Texans in Week 4, but changing his offensive coordinator will not be one of those changes.

Tomlin acknowledged on Tuesday that the performance of his offensive coaching staff has not been good enough in the early part of the season, but said he will not be making any changes at this time.

“Not at this juncture, no,” Tomlin said.

He did acknowledge that the coaching staff has been “not good enough,” and said it goes far beyond which play is called in which order.

“Whenever we don’t play well, as a coach man, you start there,” Tomlin said. “That’s where we always start, and particularly in early portions of the season. … There’s a get-better component of this process, particularly at the early stages of the year and it has a lot to do with coach decision-making — how you structure preparation, how you allocate time in preparation in terms of the teams that you highlight, about what other people do and the amount of physical reps that you tee up for things that you prepare to do. All of that is coaching and elements of coaching decision making and strategy. So, I’m always looking at that, but obviously, based on the result of that last game, certainly.”

The Steelers have not scored on either of their first two possession in any of their first four games, and in the opening 10 plays of games, they have turned the ball over four times as often as they’ve scored.

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Tomlin again seemed to say that it was not the game plan, but the way the game plan was executed and the way the players were prepared to execute that game plan that was lacking.

“Sometimes, the game plan being up to par or not being up to par has nothing to do with the schematics,” Tomlin said. “Our presentation of the schematics, the training, how we allocate physical reps in preparation, the amount of fluidity and understanding being demonstrated by the players early on in the game, all of that is coaching and coaching-related decisions in terms of the positions that we put them in during the course of the week.

“So, yes, you do look at the game plan, but not just solely the concepts. How many times we’ve repped a concept, what looks we provide, the realistic component of it, the division of labor within the concepts, and so, there’s a lot to that. But obviously, that’s something that’s being looked at and being looked at very hard given the trajectory of the starts.”