Kirby Wilson To Interview With Ravens

Anybody know if they are still looking at him?

 

Apparently Kyle Shannahan is the other candidate.

 

Gerry dulac was saying in the Terrible Podcast show that Kirby Wilson wants to move on from the Steelers. Didn't sound like an opinion, sounded like he had a source.

 

I wonder if it is all his choice or maybe had some nudging? I sure wish tim spencer wouldn't have signed with the bucs and lovie. I'd sure would have liked to have him coaching bell.

 

if God came to me and said .. you can add munchak but lose kirby... i'd only have one question.... WHERE DO I SIGN .... i'll take that swap every day of the week.. dont think we wil miss kirby at all.. nice guy.. average coach

HINES

 

This!

 

The way I took it was that it was rock solid info? Did you also her the show?

 

I'm not sure, ill check Steeler Nation radio, they replay that stuff every day.

 

Let him move on. He just doesn't seem like that special a coach to me and I think Tomlin's desire to stick him in the OC position has more to do with his personal feelings toward Wilson than Wilson's ability to do the job effectively. IMHO.

 

Admittedly, I have no personal knowledge of Kirby Wilson's abilities. Like all fans, I read and I observe and I draw conclusions. I never understood what seemed to be the rush to install him as the team's OC to succeed BA. Why would he have been the automatic choice for the job had he not been burned in that tragic incident? Bouchette felt it would have been a foregone conclusion. I've said before, TTF, that my impression of Wilson is that he's a rah rah guy who would not be a great fit as an OC that's charged with developing effective offensive schemes and gameplans. He's okay as a position coach but the Steelers rushing attack has been nothing to write home about under his tenure and I DON'T want to get into another debate about how it's all on the offensive line. If you coach a certain position on the football team YOU are responsible for their performance. I get it that Mendy rushed for 1,000 yards twice, but if a decent RB stays healthy for an entire 16 Game season it's hard for them NOT to rush for 1,000 yards today. His YPC was never anything to get excited about. And this year's team YPC at 3.5 was under the line. I'm not trying to be negative about the guy but these are the opinions I've developed about Wilson over the last several years. I know many disagree and that's fine.

 

As an aside, it absolutely amazes me that the position is vacant because the former OC of the Rats, Jim Caldwell, got another head coaching job with the Detroit Lions. The Rats offense took a major step back this year ranking 29th overall. I thought Caldwell rode Tony Dungy's coattails to a head coaching job in Indy and was a terrible head coach. If we think Tomlin's deer lost in the headlights look is bad at times you haven't seen anything until you've seen Caldwell's. With some former head coaches it's easy to understand why they're getting another shot, Lovie Smith is a good example of that. But I'm very surprised that Caldwell is getting another head coaching opportunity. Josh McDaniels is another guy that I'm surprised about getting interest from teams with head coaching vacancies the way he butchered the Broncos when he was there.

 

It's true that the Steelers run game hasn't been dominant in the last several years, but we still averaged over 4 yards a carry with Wilson as the RB coach(up until Haley). He did that with an abysmal offensive line that's been repeatedly decimated by injuries in a pass first offense. It doesn't matter who the running backs coach is if the the line can't run block you're not going to have a dominant running attack. If anything the fact that we were averaging over 4 yards a carry should be a testament to his abilities as a positional coach.

 

Yeah Caldwell was MUCH closer to George Seifert than Tomlin. He didn't have Luck but still.

 

That's what I've been asking as well. What great rb coach candidates are out there? Maybe the guy that coached AP if Minnesota did a complete overhaul?

 

In Wilson's 6 years, we've averaged under 4 YPC, about 3.94 YPC.

 

Hairball wanted the second interview to extract more intelligence!

 

2008 3.7 ypc
2009 4.2 ypc
2010 4.1 ypc
2011 4.4 ypc
2012 3.7 ypc
2013 3.5 ypc

As stated before in our pass first offense he averaged over 4 ypc. Once Mr Bring Back A Fullback Power Running Game Running Back By Committee savior of an offensive coordinator got involved our run game took a nosedive.

 

Well it's confirmed. He' a horrible coach. The rats declined. LOL.