Chris Shula

It's spin, and unprofessional at best, no need to say that even if it's true. They're trying to get the fans on board and some are buying into it it seems.

 

This is just my opinion based on nothing, but I think that MM was brought in to be a mentor to the next hiring process in a few years. I'm looking to see who the coordinators will be. Will he take these guys under his wing, coaches who they don't think are ready to be HC yet, and groom them for the job?

One thing that Rooney said that was interesting was along the lines of they liked how he spoke about who he would want to bring in as a staff. Since he really can't make any guarantees about who he could bring in, was it more of the philosophy of how he plans on working with them?

 

I wouldn't mind this approach if this is what they do.

With an experience coach on a team that I think should be at least in a soft rebuild (Rooney doesn't agree apparently), I'd love to see us try to hire some young hot shot coordinators. Then see if one of them is ready for the HC job in 5 years or whenever we're ready to move on from McCarthy.

This is the opposite of what I would have wanted with a young coach. There, I'd be looking for the next Dick LeBeau at both coordinator positions. Ex-coaches. Guys who were really good coordinators but failed HCs*.

Seems to me that this is generally how the Steelers have hired coaches (part of the reason Tomlin doesn't have a "coaching tree").

If we do go out and hire some hot shot coordinators, that would signal some kind of a change in team philosophy.

* The exception here is Canada, who was pretty clearly a massive failure. In part because he's a horrible OC. And in part because we basically didn't have good players of offense when he was here.

 

True or not, very unprofessional.