Dom Cosentino
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Dom Cosentino
@domcosentino.bsky.social
· Jan 17
What's Mike Tomlin's Standard Now? | Defector
It was a sequence that perfectly captured the Steelers’ desultory first-round playoff loss to the Ravens on Saturday night, and also the desultory, mediocre reality that has surrounded the Steelers fo...
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I've been mad about Mike Tomlin for so long I had to blog about it: defector.com/whats-mike-t...
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For three quarters, it was Steelers football at its absolute best, which looks suspiciously like Eagles football at its absolute worst.
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He's Not Coming Back Again, Is He?
The Steelers' Immortals tasted mortality on Monday night. They were mum about the future. But not nearly mum enough.
miketanier.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:27 PM
For three quarters, it was Steelers football at its absolute best, which looks suspiciously like Eagles football at its absolute worst.
miketanier.substack.com/p/hes-not-co...
miketanier.substack.com/p/hes-not-co...
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It's not just that the Steelers have lost seven playoff games in a row. They haven't even been competitive in those losses.
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Steelers haven't even been competitive during their seven-game playoff losing streak
After Monday night's loss to the Texans, the Steelers have now lost seven consecutive playoff games.
www.nbcsports.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:16 PM
It's not just that the Steelers have lost seven playoff games in a row. They haven't even been competitive in those losses.
www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
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The Steelers have now lost seven straight playoff games. They have trailed on every second-half snap in every one of those games.
January 13, 2026 at 4:27 AM
The Steelers have now lost seven straight playoff games. They have trailed on every second-half snap in every one of those games.
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I feel like there are two kinds of people. Those who look at his post seasom record and say “that’s what happens when you take teams who have no business making the playoffs into the playoffs so consistently” and those who look it at is a sign of his failure to win games that matter.
Really have to credit Mike Tomlin for winning a Super Bowl 17 years ago, getting to another two years later, and going 3-10 in the playoffs ever since.
January 13, 2026 at 4:24 AM
I feel like there are two kinds of people. Those who look at his post seasom record and say “that’s what happens when you take teams who have no business making the playoffs into the playoffs so consistently” and those who look it at is a sign of his failure to win games that matter.
Really have to credit Mike Tomlin for winning a Super Bowl 17 years ago, getting to another two years later, and going 3-10 in the playoffs ever since.
January 13, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Really have to credit Mike Tomlin for winning a Super Bowl 17 years ago, getting to another two years later, and going 3-10 in the playoffs ever since.
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Steelers-Ravens perfectly captured that which defined this division throughout the season: the perception of prestige undermined by the cold hard reality of badly played football. defector.com/the-ravens-a...
The Ravens And Steelers Made A Mess At The Classic Factory | Defector
If the NFC South got the ending it deserved, then so too did the AFC North. The division’s season finale couldn’t quite match the pathetic reality of two 8-9 teams sitting at home rooting for two…
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January 5, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Steelers-Ravens perfectly captured that which defined this division throughout the season: the perception of prestige undermined by the cold hard reality of badly played football. defector.com/the-ravens-a...
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What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? | Defector
This is the time of year to be grateful for not having things stuck in our asses, and to think of those less fortunate than us. So spare a thought for those Americans who misjudged the capacity of the...
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December 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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New and free(!) at the Too Deep Zone:
"The Steelers like to frame themselves as old-school throwbacks. They’re really just the Cowboys in an ironic bowling shirt."
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"The Steelers like to frame themselves as old-school throwbacks. They’re really just the Cowboys in an ironic bowling shirt."
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The Infinite Tomlin
Will the Steelers enjoy another triumphant one-and-done playoff appearance? Or will they suffer another humiliating one-and-done playoff appearance? Down the Stretch investigates.
miketanier.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
New and free(!) at the Too Deep Zone:
"The Steelers like to frame themselves as old-school throwbacks. They’re really just the Cowboys in an ironic bowling shirt."
miketanier.substack.com/p/the-infini...
"The Steelers like to frame themselves as old-school throwbacks. They’re really just the Cowboys in an ironic bowling shirt."
miketanier.substack.com/p/the-infini...
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From January: What's Mike Tomlin's standard now? defector.com/whats-mike-t...
What's Mike Tomlin's Standard Now? | Defector
It was a sequence that perfectly captured the Pittsburgh Steelers’ desultory first-round playoff loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday night, and also the desultory, mediocre reality that has…
defector.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
From January: What's Mike Tomlin's standard now? defector.com/whats-mike-t...
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Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
FLOWER MOUND, TX—Condemning the “woke left” for what he called the “modern evisceration of masculinity,” local conservative man Hank Daniels confirmed Monday that he was never going to stop being prou...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
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The Steelers have by far the most expensive defensive roster but they are a bottom 10 unit in several metrics. It’s not just players playing poorly.
They are predictable and it’s simply way easy to make them unravel.
They are predictable and it’s simply way easy to make them unravel.
October 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The Steelers have by far the most expensive defensive roster but they are a bottom 10 unit in several metrics. It’s not just players playing poorly.
They are predictable and it’s simply way easy to make them unravel.
They are predictable and it’s simply way easy to make them unravel.
Whatever it takes to signal they don't understand that Mike Tomlin can no longer coach this franchise.
TRADE: The Steelers are dealing for Patriots S Kyle Dugger, per sources.
Pittsburgh gets more back-end help after DeShon Elliott’s injury, adding a second former New England safety in as many months.
Pittsburgh gets more back-end help after DeShon Elliott’s injury, adding a second former New England safety in as many months.
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Whatever it takes to signal they don't understand that Mike Tomlin can no longer coach this franchise.
I've been mad about Mike Tomlin for so long I had to blog about it: defector.com/whats-mike-t...
What's Mike Tomlin's Standard Now? | Defector
It was a sequence that perfectly captured the Steelers’ desultory first-round playoff loss to the Ravens on Saturday night, and also the desultory, mediocre reality that has surrounded the Steelers fo...
defector.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Loved chatting with @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social about all things NYC—and the urgency of standing up to Trump and ICE to protect our neighbors and our communities.
Brad Lander Wants New York City to Resist
The NYC Comptroller talks ICE, Trump, Zohran, and Brooklyn.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Loved chatting with @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social about all things NYC—and the urgency of standing up to Trump and ICE to protect our neighbors and our communities.
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We did it
I think they're gonna properly respect Skenes' season by blowing once last lead for him
September 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
We did it
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Got a new story in The Ringer today.
You have encountered Steelers exceptionalism a million times. It's the belief that the Pittsburgh NFL team is football's one indispensable franchise and somehow different from the other 31.
It's also about to come crashing down www.theringer.com/2025/09/02/n...
You have encountered Steelers exceptionalism a million times. It's the belief that the Pittsburgh NFL team is football's one indispensable franchise and somehow different from the other 31.
It's also about to come crashing down www.theringer.com/2025/09/02/n...
The Last Gasp of Steelers Exceptionalism
Pittsburgh has long acted like it’s better than its NFL peers. As the Aaron Rodgers era begins, will Mike Tomlin’s team be anything more than average?
www.theringer.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Got a new story in The Ringer today.
You have encountered Steelers exceptionalism a million times. It's the belief that the Pittsburgh NFL team is football's one indispensable franchise and somehow different from the other 31.
It's also about to come crashing down www.theringer.com/2025/09/02/n...
You have encountered Steelers exceptionalism a million times. It's the belief that the Pittsburgh NFL team is football's one indispensable franchise and somehow different from the other 31.
It's also about to come crashing down www.theringer.com/2025/09/02/n...
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Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
September 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
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The arc of history is long but it bends all the way to a Supreme Court controlled by foaming ideologues like Robert Bork AND a Justice Department controlled by lawless goons like Robert Bork; this is all the fault of liberals, not of the patrons, friends, and allies of Robert Bork
If your story about what they did to Robert Bork doesn't start with Robert Bork in Nixon's bunker for Watergate then your story is revisionist horseshit
August 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The arc of history is long but it bends all the way to a Supreme Court controlled by foaming ideologues like Robert Bork AND a Justice Department controlled by lawless goons like Robert Bork; this is all the fault of liberals, not of the patrons, friends, and allies of Robert Bork
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The Biden administration had wire and securities fraud charges in motion against Musk for doing this.
Elon Musk bought the election for Donald Trump because doing this, lying about the current and future capabilities of the vehicles he sells, is the foundation of his entire fortune.
Elon Musk bought the election for Donald Trump because doing this, lying about the current and future capabilities of the vehicles he sells, is the foundation of his entire fortune.
Two days ago: Tesla has to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptively marketing Autopilot in a way that falsely made people think it could drive the car by itself.
Today: Elon Musk "Teslas can drive themselves!"
Today: Elon Musk "Teslas can drive themselves!"
August 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The Biden administration had wire and securities fraud charges in motion against Musk for doing this.
Elon Musk bought the election for Donald Trump because doing this, lying about the current and future capabilities of the vehicles he sells, is the foundation of his entire fortune.
Elon Musk bought the election for Donald Trump because doing this, lying about the current and future capabilities of the vehicles he sells, is the foundation of his entire fortune.
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pretty sure that the lawsuit isn't designed to win (or do anything other than get dismissed), it's to intimidate other outlets into not publishing more leaks of what's actually in the epstein file
July 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
pretty sure that the lawsuit isn't designed to win (or do anything other than get dismissed), it's to intimidate other outlets into not publishing more leaks of what's actually in the epstein file
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I wrote about Dave Parker, the coolest ever flaminghydra.com/dave-parker-...
Dave Parker Trots Home
Six-foot-five, 245 pounds, a slugger from the age of behemoths and big-swingers, the real-deal furniture movers and bouncer-shaped designated hitters, the plodding old oafs running out of breath on st...
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July 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I wrote about Dave Parker, the coolest ever flaminghydra.com/dave-parker-...
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i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?
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June 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
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A colt named Journalism is the betting favorite in this weekend's Kentucky Derby. If metaphor carries the day, that poor horse is gonna break down and get boltgunned right to hell in front of millions.
April 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A colt named Journalism is the betting favorite in this weekend's Kentucky Derby. If metaphor carries the day, that poor horse is gonna break down and get boltgunned right to hell in front of millions.
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.