The Steelers are hiring Mike McCarthy

I wasn't happy with the hiring, but what done is done
He does have a better record in the playoffs than Tomlin. So ill root for him untill I dont.

 

time will tell. if he can help develop a long term QB and successful offense in short order he will be a legend.

 

I would agree with that.

 

ok.... so i still don't like the hire, but... if i was mccarthy as soon as i got hired i would have been on the phone to rodgers.

please hear me out. if he brings rodgers back one more year to play and help mentor howard or a QB that they select in the upcoming draft it would truly benefit the team. so long as they don't trade up to get a QB in round 1 that is. i am not enthralled with any QB that will be taken after mendoza in the first round.

train what you have or get in round 3 or 4. use your early picks to build a stout team around rodgers and then whomever comes in the following year. they have no clue what they have in howard. so mentor him a bit more and see what he may have. hell, 2 years behind rodgers with a coach that is offensive minded could possibly turn him into something.

if they want to attempt to compete right now sign rodgers to another year and give him a WR corps that he can use and his successor can use when he is gone. because this is apparently what the ownership wants...to be competitive now. i hate the idea of bringing back on old QB but this is what i am expecting them to want to do.

i do not like the idea of rudolph being used as the starter no matter what. if they want to gamble they should gamble on the unknown which is howard rather than gambling on what they do is not the right guy.

they really need a QB, a WR or hopefully 2, S, G, possibly a T, a CB2, and a slot CB that can play. they have 12 picks to make something out of the draft for the future.

if mccarthy can hire a young OC to learn under him and a DC that understands that you can't continue running the same defense for 10 years and expect teams to not figure it out i will be ok with this hire. but as it sits right now, i'm not sold on it at all.

 

Honest bottom line for me is bringing back Rodgers feels like action, but it’s mostly delay. If the goal is to actually fix the franchise, not just stay respectable, the harder path is the right one: commit to evaluation, accept short-term pain, and stop renting answers at quarterback.

 

what i am kind of getting at is i can understand why they might want to bring back rodgers. i'd love if they evaluated howard. but i believe they bring rodgers back to help groom howard plus in doing so the FO can keep the "being competitive idea" alive.

 

If that's true, then we did the same thing to Flores that he's suing the league over.

 

I'll make it official for the new McCarthy era....

We are doomed.

 

Company line bull****. Love you Bill but you have to be soft like most bums on TV. I'd rather hear Terry Bradshaw's opinion. He tells the real answers when asked about football.

 

I did. Do you know what a rhetorical question is?

 

Taking Bradshaw over Cowher doesn’t help your credibility

Just saying

 

Yes

 

I don't give a **** what you think.

 

You have no idea how much I admire you for that response

 

Yeah, Kubiak may have been a great hire.

 

I already said the 2005 playoffs was a small sample size he was still a game manager early on in his career.

 

Ben was a huge part of the success in 2004 and 2005.Don't matter if you call game manager or not,he was amazing in the first 2 seasons,outside the moment he hit the rookie wall at the end of the 2004 season....The steelers were also not the same team when he was out for a few games in 2005

 

Can we still get him as an OC?

 

No, guys almost never move laterally and why would he want to?

 

I love this hire.
People wanted an offensive minded HC. Done.
People wanted a hire with a proven winning record. Done.
People wanted a HC that can bring in top coordinators. Done.


Let's GO!!!!