The Steelers have the NFL's smallest 2024 coaching staff

Let's hope the quality will be good or we are in the trouble again

Study: The Steelers Have The NFL's Smallest Coaching Staff (2024 Edition) - Steelers Depot

 

Isn’t it this way pretty much every year?

 

Yes but this year it's the smallest, not just one of the smallest

 

Did t care last year. Or the year before. Or the year before that. Or…

 

But mediocre Mike got more $$ ,

 

I checked cowher’s coaching staff in 2006. Including him there was a grand total of 12

 

just because they are small? they can't help it they were born that way. take them out for some barbeque or to premanti's a couple of times a week they will get bigger. not sure how this translates to them coaching though. they are not so small the players can't see them.

 

Everything's bigger in Dallas!!!


How 'bout them Cowboys?!?!?!

 

How are they going to see over the big players on the sidelines?

 

Less is more. Quality over quantity.

 

This has been something for decades. In the 70's we had one of (if not) the smallest staff. Noll was not only HC, but sp. teams coach, he loved it and did not want to give it up. When the other teams were expanding staffs, we still won SB's. Not sure when the official transition started, but eventually we did hire and expand. A couple of years ago I looked and some teams had 30 plus on staff (this included weight room and some other behind the scenes things). Personally, I think you can go overboard, but we do need 3 guys for challenges, one to caal for it or not, one to grab the flag and throw it, and another to hold MT;s arm from throwing it. That alone is worth a few brews after the game.

 

Nothing new really

 

Quality over quainity.
Less is more,
It’s not the size of the staff, it’s what you do with it.



Ok, their small quality coaching staff hasn’t won a playoff game since the Obama administration. 10 AFC teams have won playoff games since the Steelers did. And that quality small staff had the wily offensive genius, Matt Canada, on it for 4 yrs.

Yup, no reason to question staff size! at all!
The enduring ability of Yinzers to trust ‘Da Stiller Way’ without question is a modern sports marvel,

 

If we were playing well and didn't have a bottom tier offense this wouldn’t be an issue. But since our offensive output has been atrocious this smallest coaching staff size has to be looked at and criticized. Belichick could overcome it because he was capable. Tomlin……?

 

How would having a larger staff help? I want good coaches. Not "many" coaches. Tomlin does not have a good history with making good hires. A larger collection of bums, is still just a collection of bums.

 

Maybe another coach would have had enough time to teach KP to read a defense

 

Really?? NE with the smallest staff in 2022 and 2023. Their record was 8-9, and 4-13 those seasons.

 

smallest, in mind - in brain capacity??!?!

LOL!!!!

 

Amazing isn't it!

 

(For Strummer - at least it's not Boston or Journey.)

 

Yeah, possibly a major contributing factor to us being stuck in mediocrity. Maybe if they had a couple more sets of eyes OR some gem of a coach developed we wouldn’t have botched the Dotson situation. We just let a young player like him walk because he’s not noticed or shown signs of being good and then goes to the Rams and IMMEDIATELY balls out as a top Guard in the league.

Even Kendrick Green played far better with the Texans than he ever did here.

The last two years it took 3/4 of the season for the O-line to start to function like an NFL front 5.

Maybe the staff is spread too thin and can be some of the reason that I hear EVERY YEAR for at least the last 5 that we have communication issues on defense.

 

So do You think those Guys going to play with better Qb might have helped some???
Mason is not a great Qb, but He was better than what we were using, and look how much better the OL looked with Him as Qb......now think about how much better the others Qbs were.
JMO, but a Qb can make any OL look better, or worse

 

I thought that was the job of Mike Sullivan? You don't need two people telling someone the same thing.

 

Obviously everyone one a team benefits from better players around them. I think the fact that Mason Rudolf, a better option, being right there in house and under the nose of the FEW coaches that we had/have only strengthens my position. He’s just another great example (thanks for reminding me) of *possibly* another reason he was so over looked and his skill growth was so unrecognized for so long.

Mason certainly looked and operated the offense better than anyone we had and likely who we now have (another mistake coming). Maybe someone could have said, “hey, I’m relegated to working with Rudolf and the practice squad for a while now and he’s made some serious improvements and showing a better player than we all remember AND far better than Tribisky. But Tomlin would likely screw that up and brush it off anyway. I bet Tomlin has a pretty large ego behind closed doors.

I don’t think any reasonable person in America of the world would believe that a school classroom isn’t better with a lower teacher to student ratio. Why would coaching be any different?

I think that any reason that someone could present about the benefits of a smaller coaching staff vs. a larger one could be trumped by arguing for more tutelage and instruction. ESPECIALLY one that has been mired in mediocrity for so long.

Look, we have all seen the evidence of poor game planning and schemes for a long time, I don’t know how anyone could say otherwise. Opposing teams have commented on it as well as unbiased football talking heads outside of the Steelers black and gold bleeding fan base. If the scheme and plans are medicre I would still lobby for more coaches to help the players skills and fundamentals be supported at a minimum.