The Steelers are hiring Mike McCarthy

He did beat Tomlin in the Super Bowl.

 

Message board heros. You guys just read the news. Know nothing.
You either root for the Steelers or not. Shula probably would have sucked too.

 

Feel similar, though I thought him somewhere in the middle of those interviewed so far.

Has a similar past of Tomlin (he just didn't get lifetime tenures like Tomlin) and Harbaugh.

Lets hope he's learned from whatever his weaknesses were and plans to avoid those pitfalls this time around.

The KEY in all of this is who gets hired as the DC. That will be the make or break to this hire in the near term. A quality, proven DC or an assistant that has been working direclty with a good DC (Fangio, Schwartz, a few others), etc.

Blitzburgh may not work any longer due to all the rule changes, but would like to see a more aggressive D, with more bump/man coverage and less tissue soft zone to just "let em catch it and then try and tackle em" 5, 7 and 10 yard completions.

 

I was looking forward to the draft and free agency, now they don't mean a damn thing because Rooney just took a giant dump on any hope the Steelers had for the near future.

 

Because I’m intelligent educated and understand how the Steelers work

 

I am taking the bridge.

 

And in the NFL that is attractive

 

Hear me out it could work with McCarthy:
Draft a guard to replace Seumalo
Bring Rodgers back
Bring in two new receivers

 

Right.

Other than Rodgers, there is no reason for this hire.

 

That would make for a good offense

 

Good, I hope they lose every damn game.

 

What an atrocious hire and why now?

Can interview Rams guys in less than 48 hours n this crap coach not going ANYWHERE

Art go away SOON, please......

 

McCarthy is Tomlin but smarter.
Who is Shula? No one.
We need better OCs.

 

No that is not correct

 

Certainly hope not. It's called futility, doing the same thing over and over an expecting different results? And everyone is a year older (for some, thats good, but for key players, not so much).

Ten years of futility with Tomlin, at least 6 years and two extensions too long. Feels like we're just replacing Tomlin with just a marginal upgrade. Ugh.

We have a slew of draft picks. I hope a few albatross are cut and by some small miracle we hit on a rookie QB in round 2/3/4 that competes with Howard and blows everyone away in pre-season.

 

43 years old Rodgers?!

 

Sorry to all of those fans that thought the team would be willing to have a bad season in 2026 to get a good draft pick in 2027 for a QB.

 

And what's the alternative at QB if Art wants to win next season?

 

Congratulations Jeh. You are the first person on this thread to see a silver lining!

 

And we're ALL still glad about that. McCarthy, no matter how boring is an upgrade. A rotting tree-stump is an upgrade over Tomlin.

 

McCarthy just got hired just because he is from Pittsburgh

 

Art need to sale the team big time