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What are Reasonable Expectations for Mike McCarthy in year one with the Steelers?

Discussion in 'Steelers Talk' started by steelersrule6, Mar 29, 2026.

  1. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    “I dont believe it so everyone is lying” seems pretty stupid too but hey, to each their own
     
  2. Michael E

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    My beef with Tomlin wasn't that he might have been calling the plays, but that he hired bad coordinators over and over again, meddled in the D schemes and plans and we were, for the better part of the last decade, a mediocre, boring, unserious, non-contending football team. Most of that time, we had above average roster (and further back in the decade a top 5 roster) and achieved below-expected results. Whether Tomlin called plays doesn't matter, he was still there with his foot on the wrong pedal...most of the time.
     
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  3. S.T.D

    S.T.D Well-Known Member

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    Don't let @HeinzMustard@HeinzMustard hear that He's atheist, and thinks everyone that believes must be stupid.
    Actually he is atheist, but he never said that, I was just trying to learn to do his trick of not actually reading what someone said, and making my own thing up out of what I wanted to believe they said. LoL
     
  4. S.T.D

    S.T.D Well-Known Member

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    So again simply answer the question.
    Is Tomlin a ventriloquist??
    Does Tomlin have ESP endowed powers???
    Did the NFL deep fake all the games that I seen the DCs looking at the play sheet, and calling plays while Tomlins mouth didn't move??
    It has to be one of these.
    Anyone can say anything, but when you actually see it:shrug:
    Also do You actually watch the games, or do You just read what people say about the games???
    Seriously because they show the coaches on the sidelines every game. I can't count the times I've pointed out who was calling plays just on the game thread.
     
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  5. steelersrule6

    steelersrule6 Well-Known Member

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    And the camera would show Butler and Austin on the sideline making the calls :rolleyes:.
     
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  6. steelersrule6

    steelersrule6 Well-Known Member

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    Well, I guess it isn't just me that believes it didn't happen.
     
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  7. S.T.D

    S.T.D Well-Known Member

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    Problem is nobody said that. A poster took something, and lied about what was said. It's very easy to go look at was actually said, and this is how $hit starts. It only takes one to get it started, and then the people that don't educate themselves on what was actually done, or said keep it rolling until you have a snowball the size of Texas, and a lot of people believing stuff that was actually never said. Politicians do this all the time, misquote.
     
  8. HeinzMustard

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    So did Homer's Odyssey. :rolleyes:
     
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  9. HeinzMustard

    HeinzMustard Well-Known Member

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    Still butthurt because I didn't apologize for calling out your bullsh!t? :lolol:
     
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  10. S.T.D

    S.T.D Well-Known Member

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    No. You have clearly shown the type of person you are. You lied about what was said to try ,and down someone to make You look better. That shows the weakness in you. While we both know that without the threat of me being kicked off the board, and you were actually standing in front of me you wouldn't do it. So I look upon you as nothing but weak amusement now. Have a good day, and God bless
     
  11. HeinzMustard

    HeinzMustard Well-Known Member

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    Gotta love internet muscles. :icon mrgreen:
     
  12. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    Never said you were the only one :shrug:

    Believe what you want, I’ll believe the DC, former players and beat writers.

    By the way it would be awful foolish for Butler to include Dick LeBeau who could easily blow that up if it were a lie yet he never refuted it. Hmmm :hmm:
     
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  13. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    Exactly, the Tomlin fan club is taking it as a knock on him for saying he called the defense, as if he was the only one to ever do that.

    Thats not what we cared about, it was his suck ass schemes that multiple players over and over said how simple they were. But they're all lying too, everything I dont like is a LIE! :lolol:
     
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  14. jeh1856

    jeh1856 I’ll eat turds in the field but not a fresh pea

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    This is going well
     
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  15. steelersrule6

    steelersrule6 Well-Known Member

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    Some of us watch the game and know what's going on ;). If you put two and two together a former employee who felt he was made a scapegoat does an interview to take a shot at his former boss soon after :shrug:.
     
  16. pczach

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    The next time you watch a game and know what's going on will be the first time. :shrug:
     
  17. Hanratty#5

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    They have but the big difference is Job's description of the beast's tail as large as a cedar tree. Hippos have very small rope like tails. Also the beast is described as towering over all of the other creatures which would eliminate the close to the ground alligator or crocodile.
    Going to the source there are 2 different beasts described. The Behemoth in chapter 40 and the Leviathan in chapter 41. The Behemoth in verse 40:17 states that his tail sways like a cedar tree so that would eliminate the hippo. In chapter 41:25 the Leviathan is described as terrifying even the mighty when he raises up and verse 34 says that he looks down on all, eliminating the crocodile or alligator.
     
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  18. MojoUW

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    Yeah. I didn’t follow or track the entire discussion. Main reason I didn’t quote anyone. I didn’t want to aim my comments at the wrong spot. That may have happened anyways. If anyone feels so; apologies from me.

    I just THOUGHT I saw a growing discussion that dinos and people hung out together. Like I said, that drives me batty. It’s one of the few things I have a legitimate claim to knowing more than most about. Just a pet peeve button.

    please carry on and pay no mind to the grumpy man yelling in the corner.
     
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  19. jeh1856

    jeh1856 I’ll eat turds in the field but not a fresh pea

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    been there
     
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  20. HeinzMustard

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    Weakness? I'm not the one demanding and expecting an apology to placate a fragile ego. You've exposed your authoritarian personality traits like Glenn. In the words of Zack de la Rocha....

    F**K you, I won't do what you tell me
    F**K you, I won't do what you tell me
    F**K you, I won't do what you tell me
    F**K you, I won't do what you tell me

    :cool:
     
  21. S.T.D

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    See this is where Your argument falls apart. It's like saying the Raiders had a better D than the Steelers.
    It had nothing to do with Tomlin, it has to do with people saying things that aren't true. If You said the same thing about let's say Bill Belichick, if I watched every game He coached like I do the Steelers, and I seen his DCs calling plays and Bills mouth wasn't moving, I would say the same . You know people are grasping at straws when they must say Tomlin supporters, or Lovers. No its call TRUTH supporters.
     
  22. S.T.D

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    And this is why I said people need to look before saying. One person lied about what one person said with the knowledge of knowing that some people don't go back, and check the validity of said lie ,but just roll with it.
    No biggie.
     
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  23. MojoUW

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    In an effort to yank this thread to more pleasant derailments....here is my favorite RATM story:

    During the recent rounds of political unpleasantness at home and abroad, many (many, many, many folks) started posting RATM lyrics and song highlights across social media platforms to express their ire at left side of the spectrum politicians around the world and support for right side of the spectrum politicos.

    The responses when de la Rocha and Morello began to appear on those social media threads and state what they and RATM support politically and socially....was absolutely hilarious. Think dude's burning YETI coolers kinda stuff.

    Watching folks realize what "machine" was being raged against and that SHOCKINGLY....these dudes were not fair and balanced was and is hilarious:

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    And, as always, my usual message to "take a look...it is in a book...." the following is a link to the reading list that was part of the cover art for the second album: https://radicalreads.com/rage-against-the-machine-favorite-books/
     
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  24. HeinzMustard

    HeinzMustard Well-Known Member

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    I don't see how anyone... GenZ and Gen Alpha included, could mistake RATM for a right wing band. But I guess anything is possible these days.

    Ted Nugent, Hank Williams JR and Kid Rock are right wing acts... and there's country artists on the orange bandwagon, but even they are few and far between. The executive branch can't find acts to play the 4th of July celebration of 250 years at White House. Artists/bands are correct to say they don't want anything to do with a partisan celebration. More power to them.
     
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  25. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    Great, next time the game is on you can fill us in on what they are talking about on the sideline.

    Also that only would be a reason for Butler, not others that have confirmed it :shrug:

    Not to mention the whole scapegoating is bs, most years their defense was ranked high, why would Butler be upset with that.
     

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