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Steelers hiring McCarthy

Ron Burgundy said:
The offense has a good chance to be better though.
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I truly hope he brings in way better sub-coaching and actually lets them do their jobs.

Remember, Rooney wanted a strong leader…………….




Salute the nation
 
NoKap#7 said:
Welp....Poetic Justice for you clowns that kept referring to Tomlin as a DEI hire and showed 100% disrespect at his leaving. I dont believe in karma, but I do believe you reap what you sow.
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I am glad Tomlin is gone, nothing to do with DEI, everything to do with his "body of work." As far as Karma...your point is like the religious person who points at their baby surviving a collapsed building after an earthquake....they tell you it's a miracle their baby survived, but ignore the other 38 people who were crushed and mangled to death in the same building.

In other words what about the fans who didn't want him gone?
 
bermudasteel said:
I going to try to be optimistic.

But first...

What if Coach McCarthy wins a SB in the first two years with Coach Tomlin's players??? BWAHAHAHA!!!

Ok. Back to seriousness.

Hopefully, he can entice Scheelhaase to come in as the OC. It will take some of the bitterness off of this decision. And I'd be extremely impressed if they wrangle the secondary coach from Seattle.

Stay away from Ty Simpson. See what you have in Will Howard and bring in Malik Willis to push him.

Tell the Rooney's that WE MUST HAVE A WR2 in the offense and lure George back to Pittsburgh.

Do all that...and I'll be the supportive fan that I usually am...
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If he wins a Lombardi with Tomlins players hed get more credit than Tomlin doing it with Cowhers players.

I’d argue Tomlin inherited a far better roster than McCarthy. It would be a massive indictment of Tomlin in fact-winning a championship with a team Tomlin couldn’t win a playoff game with.

I’d love to get Sheelhause as OC and HC in waiting-but I highly doubt it happens. I think McCarthy will have too much sway on this offense than what Scheelhause would want
 
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Rooney likes Yes men that will hang out with him. He caught wind of Jerry Jones and McCarthy drinking Johhny Walker and eating steak many a night and can't wait to get in on the fun. He could never do that with a young guy.
 
Confluence said:
So odd coming from an upbeat, energetic, inspiring, active leader like the Deuce
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I swear this guy reminds me so much like his grandfather.
Granddad was a horrible owner back in the day. Hired bad coaches, let them trade away premium draft picks, traded for washed up players.
Nice old gentleman like Art II just clueless.
 
SteelBuckeye said:
Kentucky actually did, however, mention DEI and all that jazz. So, you're right in that they should both keep the politcal stuff in the political forum.
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I won't do it again, but that jagoff is constantly regurgitating that B.S. here(in the football forum) and it seems like it's allowed to go on and on. He disappears for a while and then comes right back with the Fox News zombie talk.
 
Rodgers may have said McCarthy or I'm done. Steelers handed Aaron the keys to the city. Times have changed in Pittsburgh.
Not my first pick but the most decorated of the group. I would take one more year of Aaron over a kyler Murray or Malik Willis. Even if he is just a stopgap 1 year QB. That makes sense. Gets us to 2027 draft class.
It actually worries me on the other side I think Rodgers in a better offense will get us too many wins to get a high draft pick top QB. Maybe Tomlin would be used as leverage to trade up in that scenario.
Will be interesting for sure
 
SteelBuckeye said:
You might want to go back and read Kentucky's posts. I don't have a dog in the fight, but, they seemed less to do with football and more to do with politics and trying to antagonize one particular poster. Either way, I don't care ... It's stupid and childish.
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So call out the ICE angle also ....if you truly don't have dog in the fight.
 
Ok I have given it some thought. Since we hired MM as our head coach I suggest the following.

OC: Norve Turner

DC: Wade Phillips.

Both are still alive and both are available (I think) and would fit right in with this steeler philosophy. hell no we want old, hell no we want old..
 
Phoenix1172 said:
I'm at a loss about the HC hire. He must have had some incriminating evidence on Rooney.

I'm sorry, but this does not invigorate the fan base and I doubt it does for the team either.

Why go away from the standard of hiring a young up and coming guy to go with a retread coach?

The only thing I can think of is

  • He told them he'd work for free
  • They want him to develop Howard for a couple of years
  • They plan to draft a QB high this year they want him to develop
  • They feel the team is super bowl ready and only needs a vet coach to get them across the finish line

This move makes absolutely zero sense to me. It's not to bring Rodgers back either for anyone thinking that since I think Rodgers was a main reason he was fired from Green Bay.

I guess it's time to take a deep breath and see how things play out. If it's anything like Dallas and his last few years at Green Bay it will be high expectations, but coming up short.
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Anyone who thinks the Steelers are Super Bowl ready are borderline retarded. If it weren't for all the injuries in Baltimore and Cincy they don't even make the playoffs. Reality matters, I call it like I see it. This team isn't close, a HC getting AARP benefits isn't the answer.
 
Avoid_Lloyd said:
I don’t understand why we couldn’t wait to interview Sheelhause and Shula until next week. The only way this makes sense is if both of those guys let it be known they didn’t want to coach here, and that would half to be because there is some flaw in the way the Rooneys are running the organization. We will probably never know the truth

I’m pissed, something stinks.
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We can’t see the forest for the trees.

They interviewed three people in person , two for the Rooney Rule. They never had an intention to do a thorough search. They targeted their man which they probably knew pretty quickly.

They did Steelernation dirty their only intention was hiring a safe guy with a floor high enough for them to live with. There is no way they could possibly think the man would bring them SB wins let alone appearances.

The next chants fans should do when the time comes that they feel froggy is step down Rooney, not fire Mike.

It is no longer Tomlinships it is Rooneyships.

There should be no misinterpretations.
 
KentuckySteeler said:
Rooney likes Yes men that will hang out with him. He caught wind of Jerry Jones and McCarthy drinking Johhny Walker and eating steak many a night and can't wait to get in on the fun. He could never do that with a young guy.
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dude,,,, smh
 
Find myself completely underwhelmed by the hire. But on the positive side... Mccarty is after all a better football coach than Tomlin, so why can't that be enough ffs?
The idea of hiring a coach off of the couch when we all had some delusion of actually seeing the franchise switching up direction. And that is my own damn fault
 
stillwright said:
So call out the ICE angle also ....if you truly don't have dog in the fight.
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I thought I did that in post #326 when I said: "Kentucky actually did, however, mention DEI and all that jazz. So, you're right in that they should both keep the politcal stuff in the political forum."
You probably just missed that part and aren't really trying to chastise me for not doing something that I actually did.
As I said, I don't have a dog in the fight. But, it seems like you do.
But hey, can we get back to football talk? Or do you want to keep going round for round about this bull pucky?
 
skialta said:
Find myself completely underwhelmed by the hire. But on the positive side... Mccarty is after all a better football coach than Tomlin, so why can't that be enough ffs?
The idea of hiring a coach off of the couch when we all had some delusion of actually seeing the franchise switching up direction. And that is my own damn fault
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Fool us once shame on them. Fool us twice?

There should be no misunderstandings going forward…
 
Does hiring McCarthy make it easier to retain Weidl? Maybe Weidl has a foot out the door because he was anticipating a coach who'd want to control personnel.
 
Art II was born on 3rd base and has spent the past decade trying to steal 2nd.

He is as much to blame for the past decade as was Tomlin. The man never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
 
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