What are Reasonable Expectations for Mike McCarthy in year one with the Steelers?

It's no different than You blaming Tomlin for anything, and everything.

 

This 100%.
A sad truth in life is people tend to design their memories of the past in the way they want, and not actually how it happened.
It's human nature.
It's like the Polamalu thing back in the day for example. The boards were alive with , too short, too injury prone, and Bustamalu , but now it's like it never was said, or happened.

 

Rodgers has always been a pocket QB first, even though he was athletic in his prime. And in this league if you can read quickly and get the ball on target you can do very well without the mobility. So the way I see it he is still better than most of the QBs in this league. The issue is whether he can take the hits that are inevitable at the position and survive the long NFL schedule.

Either way the key is punching that playoff ticket (which I expect to happen), and once they lock that up it's about health going into the playoffs. Particularly having Rodgers healthy. If they can do that, then I think they have a chance.

 

He won a Super Bowl

That’s a fond memory for me

DAB

 

IMO the game that comes to mind right off the top of my head is the playoff loss to Tim F'n Tebow.

Stat--------Ben------Tebow
Yards-------289--------316
AVG---------7.2-------15.0
TD-------------1----------2
INT------------1----------0
QBR--------36.9------96.7
Fumbles-----1----------0
F_Lost-------0----------0
Sacked------5----------0

Obviously, a big part of this is the defense totally ****ting the bed in OT. The stats on the QB side look different if we only look at regulation time and we take out the 1 play 80 yard drive in OT. Without that godforsaken play, it's a pretty even matchup at QB, so I guess we could argue Ben played Tebow to about a draw in this one? The pick (from our own 14) gave them 3 points.

But when the QB matchup is this lopsided, the game probably shouldn't get to OT.

Aside: On the ground we out gained them 156 (6.8 ypc) to 131 (3.9 ypc) with Isaac Redman having what I assume is his best ever game 17 carries / 121 yards / 32 long.

 

Unfortunately, in playoff games after the AFCC loss to the Pats it was basically always "both, and" not "either, or".

 

Did LeBeau tell you that directly ?