Buy or Sell (Throwback Edition)

Buy or Sell......

The Pittsburgh Steelers would have won a Super Bowl with Kordell Stewart, had Chan Gailey been the OC for his entire career.

 

I am going to buy this.

When Chan Gailey left the Steelers, Bill Cowher made one of the biggest mistakes of his coaching career. Ray Sherman was hired as OC in 1998, and the Steelers offense completely fell apart after going to the AFCC with Gailey in 1997. After Sherman was fired, Kevin Gilbride was considerably better. But Kordell didn't match his level of play from 1997 until Mike Mularkey came around in 2001.

Bettis was still in the prime of his career in the late 90s. Even if the Steelers hadn't won a Super Bowl with the Gailey/Stewart combo, they would have been much more competitive than they were in 98,99, and 2000.

 

Would Steelers offense been better in '98 and '99... yeah, maybe slightly with Gailey. But Steelers were hemmoraging free agents at this time...losing Thigpen, Searcy, etc. This took a toll on the offense. I don't think Walsh in his prime would have done much with what Steelers had to work with during the late 90's on offense. Thank the lords for Heinz Field in 2001... it made the Steelers competitive again in free agency.

Troy Edwards and Courtney Hawkins were our best WRs in 1999... and Ward was emerging in the background.

Steelers also lost Charles Johnson, a good WR for Steelers after '98. Ernie Mills? I think he ended up on Cowboys.

 

I don't think so but Kordell would been much better in 1998 to 2000.Maybe the steelers would make the playoffs at least twice in those years

 

All true. Maybe a Super Bowl is a bit far fetched. I do think the Steelers would have at least been competitive with Gailey at OC. Who knows, maybe Troy Edwards would have turned into something. He showed flashes.

 

I was never a Kordell fan

To me he would run at the first sign of pressure and would no longer look down field

Much like Fields and the Wilson at the end

When Ben got away from pressure he was always looked down field until he ran (waddled) out of bounds

 

I was his biggest defender back in the day. Lol