Is Teryl Austin the Next DC??

Butler officially retires……… Insider thinks it’s Austin Time

Cajun

 

I hope not. Hiring from within hasn't been very successful for this organization.

 

just lock Teryl in

 

More than likely. I fail to see why he would not be. That said, it would be good for change for some change in terms of how the Steelers search for coaches. Not saying Teryl Austin should not have his chance again (what he has done for this secondary has been nothing short of incredible) but branching out never hurts either.


Regardless, pencil Austin in as the likely incumbent, if not shoe in, for DC.

 

Are you sure about that? It seems to me the last two times we went to the sb it was after hiring an OC from within. Besides, Austin was an outside hire. Klemm was an outside hire. Canada was an outside hire. This narrative that we only hire from within is garbage IMO.

 

Leslie Frazier makes a lot of sense to Tomlin as an outside hire based on coverages he runs being similar to Tomlin. Only outside hire I could even see. This is Tomlin's defense and he has it in both hands, around the neck, choking the life out of it.

 

We need to hire coaches from outside the organization! If they hire Austin and Canada stays it’s gonna be more or the same old crap next year. Not looking forward to it!

 

(Bad word) LeBeau is still around.

 

And 84 years old.

 

Austin is a good coach by all accounts and I’d have no real issue with him getting the job but this hiring from within policy is getting really tiresome, how can you evolve a team and work new ideas in when you only promote guys from within your existing system.

The worst example was Sarrett and then subsequently Klemm getting the OLine coordinator job after Munchak left. Both were seemingly out of their depth, Klemm to the point where they let him walk away in the middle of the season. That’s just bad process, and it hurt the team.

I don’t know if it’s money driving this policy or some deluded / arrogant belief that their own people are better than other candidates but it’s not helping the team in most cases.

 

Not really the same thing when you hire them years before promoting them. That's more indoctrinating into how the organization operates before giving them the higher position. Hiring someone off the street to the higher position with no previous connection gives a greater chance of new ideas.

 

It raises the ever popular question as to who is actually hiring the coaching staff. My guess has been that it's Tomlin who doesn't take that hiring process seriously enough and needs to be prodded from management but it still doesn't work.

 

Exactly, they are in the system and more likely to continue with a lot of what everyone is comfortable with.

TBH I’ve no issue at all with Austin in this case (we all know he is getting the job) because he has the experience.

It’s the coaching clown car on offence that gets me, Sarrett, Klemm, Fictner Canada etc, very few other team would have given them the jobs they got with the Steelers.

 

He's not coming to Pittsburgh. I called Teryl Austin last weekend. I just saying "what if" and I do think people are going to see that Tomlin is on his last contract, and that the Steelers hire from within more than most teams.

 

Let’s promote the guy with the weakest, softest group on the defense.

 

The DC is going to be largely an assistant to Tomlin regardless. They are not going to allow somebody to come in and shake everything up so they are never going to bring in a big name. May as well be Austin

It’s on offence is where they needed to up their game, I’m really not sure about keeping Canada, will see how it goes I guess.

 

I saw a quote by adidi kinkibala (??) earlier this year saying Butler was basically a figure head, hasn’t built a defensive unit nor calls defense on game days ……

I say this because I saw a quote from another beat writer today saying Austin will most likely become the next DC But we’ll never know how good he is because he’ll never call the plays in gameday!!!!

I actually find this a bit puzzling and concerning. During the chiefs game every time the camera panned over to butler he was just standing there, no playsheeet in hand.

Cajun

 

Why would Frazier leave Buffalo for Pittsburgh, unless they gave him a big pay raise.

 

And fans actually believe this BS , I paid attention during the Chiefs Tomlin didn't have a playsheet, but Butler did he always does so I don't know what you're talking about.

 

Not sure if you want to believe this but here it is in Butler's own words.

 

I don’t recall Tomlin with a play sheet either, but I did take notice of Butler being empty handed…….

Cajun

 

I'm sure Tomlin got involved on occasion, but I'm not buying it that he makes all the calls on game day, when they show him you rarely see him with a playsheet.