Realistic expectations for new coach.

It wouldn't hurt my feelings at all if they only won 4 or 5. I think they will win more though. With next year's potential QB class being much better than this year, this would be the year to falter. Combined with a new system and staff often times taking a year to come together. Also, I believe the right hire and good assistants can make a massive difference. I think we've had a weak staff for most of MT's years. I'm hopeful for good draft decisions and good free agency decisions and maybe only a couple down years before they start climbing to the top again. I believe , obviously, head coach and QB are the 2 most important parts of a team and they have neither. Just hopes and dreams right now.

 

Tomlin inherited a superbowl caliber team and coaching staff ... and left us in this condition ... smh

 

He is a better talent, prospect coming out of college and now 7 years later, than quarterbacks who are competing in the league like Darnold, Daniel Jones, Purdy. You don't waste that talent. Khan knows why they drafted him. I understand Tomlin favored KP because of his scrambling, but he would also keep Drake Maye on the bench after a 2-7 start last season, and then go and get him a real quarterback, Justin Fields.
Look, you have to play and compete with a talented passer who is better than some quarterback who are competing in the playoffs!
He is better than CJ Stroud, Bryce Young, Penix. Geno. Definitely better talent than those. I don't want to keep naming all the QBs who other teams invested in. The pertinent references are the ones in the playoff hunt and playoffs. And he is better than those quarterbacks.

We went to Chicago, he played off the bench against a playoff team and we lost by 3 scoring 28, without any offseason starting prep and reps to lead the team, cold off the bench.
Meanwhile Rodgers score 6 against the Bills at home, and 10 points at Chargers, and he had a GREAT season for the Steelers. You guys still live in Tomlin's world of 5-year quarterback baffoonery.