What Does a McCarthy Offense Look Like?

They won 10 games last season. That wasn't luck.

 

I see you moved the goal posts as usual

 

Burrow missing a majority of the last two seasons, LJ and Mahomes missing a big chunck of last season didnt hurt either.

it was good defense (not great) and luck with injuries to the division rivals, not to mention the browns being inept, that helped the steelers squeeze out ten wins. Ill give a little credit to AR too - he held it together enough on the offensive side to get to 10 wins.


There were things on the defensive side that i never liked, like an over reliance on TJ doing his thing, and the steelers almost always having their corners play 5 yards off the receivers. I’ll also throw in our seeming general poor tackling.

 

so far the offense looks like we are playing for TD's and not FG's. i like it.

 

Oh my!

 

Baltimore and Kansas City had losing records when their QBs were healthy.

 

Was it just a down year for both of those teams or will it continue this year?

 

Take the under for both teams.

 

there may be some similarities between Mm and Smith but the pass route concepts may be different. I think mm is better at scheming guys open and he uses the middle of the field more and definitely spreads the defense out more laterally.

 

Funny if he's not our dad, then he is not your ex wife, of mean step father, and you don't have to make every post a down Tomlin post. I know , I know you don't do that, but should I show the post from every day??
I don't know how to break this to you ,but a HC that is the only HC out of 5 HCs to make the playoffs 5 out of the last 6 year is not a dumb, or stupid HC. Make it make sense.

 

That's why we are always good at them

 

LoL thats amazing considering that we have been in the top 10 in scoring for many of those seasons. LoL

 

Let's hope MM can turn around one of the Steelers worst trends; Thursday Night Football.

8-10 overall

BUT 1-8 in away TNF. Browns accounting for half those away losses. The only away win coming in Tomlin's rookie season.

Oh, and btw, their TNF game this year? You guess it, @ CLE.

 

No excuse to lose to the Browns on TNF this year with those scrub QBs they have, and most of all no Myles Garrett.

 

9 straight seasons of no playoff wins for a Pittsburgh Steelers head coach is unacceptable and doesn't meet the standard of the franchise starting with immaculate reception in 1972 vs. Oakland Raiders. Glad Tomlin is gone and for his sake... hope he doesn't coach again and remains an analyst on NBC.

 

Well, they played safe-ball in a division that lost the top 2 QBs for periods of time. That's at least a little luck. And I'll grant you that Tomlin's regular season formula was very much a winning one, proven over a long period of time. He deserves credit for that and he gets a lot of accolades for it. We heard the announcers slathering him in praise for the "no losing seasons" on a weekly basis.

BUT, Tomlin also deserves credit for taking his regular season formula into the playoffs year, after year, after year, after year with the EXACT SAME RESULTS every time. Not losing a close, hard-fought game. Not playing competitive playoff/wildcard football. Not switching things up catch the opposition off guard. Nothing but total humiliation. We became the team that EVERY other team wanted to meet in the playoffs. A sure win for the opposition in the wildcard round.

 

Can't wait for the afternoon crew to chime in on this one.

 

For most of his career, Tomlin lived in fear, and it only got worse over time. He always wanted the score to be as low as possible so that his defensive stats would be look good, even in the "killer b's era when it would been the time to be all-in on offense...It was not much a problem at home but on the road it was brutal

Marty Schottenheimer was incredibly aggressive in comparaison to Tomlin. Speaking of Marty, he had an awful playoff record, but he was also the most unlucky head coach of all time. I mean, his teams had 15 fumbles in the playoffs and they didn't recover any of them, which is completely insane!

He deserves some blame in the playoffs, but he never had a break and his field goal kicker was often bad too

 

I can tell you didn't watch Cowher early in his career he practiced Marty ball then .

 

They had a identity on both side of the ball at least...What was the identity of the steelers on offense in the last several years?

Dink and dunk and punt the football after that?!

 

Their identity was to choke at home in the AFCCG

 

I mean,how many afc title game for Tomlin in the last 15 years?