60% of HC Hires Fail

What's even worse is when people say... "It is, what it is."

Also hate the saying... "More or less"

Those are phrases for people who like to hear themselves talk.

 

That is a very different discussion. If that is actually what is mean by "win a playoff game" then it hooks in with larger issues related to the Steelers overall organizational philosophy and priorities. Far more complicated than "win a playoff game".

But the drumbeat all across the Steelers internet is "win a playoff game"....and I still say....so what? If you are not constructed to be able to play SB winning football....then who cares what round of the playoffs you go out in?

The Steelers haven't been good enough to win a SB in 6+ years. And they were not good enough prior to the regular season even starting. What does it matter when they stop playing games?

 

If Rooney truly is afraid that missing the playoffs will set some kind of spiraling trend then he isn't looking at what actually happens in the NFL. Every year about five teams that didn't make the playoffs the previous year get into the postseason the next. It's not some death sentence to miss the playoffs one season like he might think. Teams rebuild each season, injuries happen or don't, draft boosts the losing teams. Maybe Rooney feels like the Steelers could end up Browns East if they have a losing season? It's just not well-founded thinking, even based on the Steelers' own past.

 

It does suck that we are apparently the worst rated team by players in the league.

This is a league that has 2x teams in Ohio. So that's really bad.

 

It is a bit ironic that HC was the only thing we seemed to score well on in the PA survey.

But it's impossible to get worse than 32nd on the list!

 

Prioritize the medium term over winning the next game.

So it probably means playing some younger guys even though they need to grow. For example, I think not playing P Wilson over M Harrison was idiotic last year. Same thing with hiring over the hill WRs instead of letting R Wilson play (and probably fail).

I'm generally not a fan of tanking, so I wouldn't trade cornerstone vets with high salaries. But a rebuilding team probably also doesn't sign a 40+ year old QB or a 30+ year old CB to big deals in the offseason.

But if we made those decisions, we likely wouldn't have made the playoffs. And could have been playing regular season games knowing we were already out of playoff contention. But we would have probably had an earlier draft pick (without straight up tanking).

And I think that's against the mission statement of the team.

I grew up outside of Toronto, in the Bills viewing area. And if we keep running the team like this, I think the most likely scenario here is that we're the Bills between Kelly and Allen for a similar time frame.

I think we're trying to get a result that was more like what Cowher was doing when we didn't have a QB. Where you can have a pretty successful team by running the ball and playing defense. But I'm not sure you can really get that result in the current NFL.

I've said this elsewhere on the board but: (1) I initially didn't like the McCarthy hire and (2) the idea of the Steelers having an offensive coach is growing on me.