Steelers hire Evans for the OL.

I don’t suppose you have a reliable source for this information

 

I’ll be watching something else during halftime as I have been lately.

 

The way the Steelers have been tracking I’ve had a feeling somebody was going to pass them. I guess we’ll see if this is the year.

 

Sad, but you're probably right. I have a bad feeling that it's going to be a long, long time before the Steelers get another sniff of a Super Bowl. Hope I'm wrong.

 

You can Google for the numerous articles that came out after he was fired in Green Bay. Local and national reports cited missed meetings, lack.of interest in game prep etc.

For Dallas it was mostly whispers and speculation out of GB that the upset the cowboys in the playoffs because McCarthy was just doing the same stuff and GB knew it all.

 

So

 

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...t-he-used-to-skip-team-meetings-for-massages/

Locally when it broke, all the media guys bought it and indicated mostly everyone already knew.

Several former players from what I dimmly remember said it fit as well.

Rodgers is now saying nice things but he despised McCarthy at the end in GB. He gave multiple quotes saying McCarthy routinely ran out of playcalls in the second half.

Here's the original report. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2828649-what-happened-in-green-bay

I know many dismiss it but it was largely believed entirely by local Packers media.

 

All that proves is there are a lot of lame people in this world.
Example Michael Jackson sold millions of albums, and concerts, but he would have been just another broke a$$ singer if he relied on my money.

 

LoL.
I guess Tomlin made Cowher have one of the smallest coaching staffs when Cowher was here in the 90s .
I would say it's the Steelers mind set. Like having the same furniture since Cowher that they are finally changing.
Some of You just say things.

 

I wonder if its possible MT was that type of manager we all have likely had in our life and in our jobs. You know the type that does not want staff to be better then they are.

 

NO DAYCARE!!!

 

With regard to his time in Dallas he found out that the team wasn't all that interested in football. Story was he was in the training facility cafeteria one day and it was a media circus around all the players there. McCarthy said if he knew it was gonna be like that he would never have signed on there.

 

Is that not one of a head coaches primary jobs, setting the tone?

I've been told that for the past 19 years.

Not sure it's true. But people have yelled about it for decades.

I do know that McCarthy helmed teams are pillow soft. Folding up their tents at any sign of adversity. Saw it Green Bay for years and years. Don't know about Dallas.

All I got is that many things people got incredibly angry about regarding Tomlin that were debatable at best are not debatable regarding McCarthy. He's capable of good things as a coach but his teams are soft, selfish, and not mentally strong.

All those low scoring wins the Steekers ground out over the last several years? Not happening with a McCarthy led team unless he's completely changed in like the last 18 months.

 

You wanted the source, there it is.

I lived in the Packers media market for the entire Rodgers McCarthy tenure. It was an open secret that the two couldn't stand each other. It was also widely accepted that Rodgets had split the team into.his guys and McCarthy guys. It was broken and toxic at the end.

Why Rodhets intially embraced LaFluer until he turnedon him as well.

The bad that got McCarthy canned in Green Bay is hard to parse between him and Rodgers. But McCarthy let Rodgers run without boundaries for way too long. There's the leeway you give superstar QBs, every team does, but what McCarthy allowed to happen went too far beyond that.

Ignore the massage stuff. It reslky doesn't matter if it happened or not. The rest very much did. Far too many players have gone on record. Not just disgruntled players but guys who only ever experienced success as well.

Finally, ignore all the reporter stuff. All you had to do was watch the games. Rodgers body language was a dead give away. He couldn't stand Mccarthy and had list all respect for him by the end. Part of that is on Rodgers, he's a toxic jackass. But a great deal is on McCarthy NEVER changing his approach on offense. He was running the same stuff in Year whatever it ended up being as he was in year 1. The talent dipped on offense and Green Bsy fell completely apart.

A new coach came in and took the same personnel and totally reversed the outcomes. He simply updated the playbook by about two decades and rode herd on Rodgers.

 

He didn’t

 

Based on watching everything that went down in GB:

Rodgers only said nice things because he was totally passive aggressive and avoided any conflict until he basically got the boot in GB, went on his darkness retreat, got tattoos, and embraced running his mouth in the media.

Rodgers is now saying nice things because no other team is going to want him. He's the only one who doesn't totally realize it. Unfortunately, so are the Steelers apparently.

I'm telling you all that I watched it happen in real time -Mccarthy just plain gave up in Green Bay.

Find me a Packers fan that believes otherwise. I'm almost certain you can't.

Like I said, McCarthy might win some ballgames. The team will look different and it will be refreshing for a bit.

But let's not kid ourselves on who and what McCarthy is. He's a one trick guy that with enough talent makes that trick sing. But he's also a liar, a blowhard, and a phony tough guy.

He's far more hat than cowboy.

 

I've heard a lot of what You are saying, especially the phony tough guy act, but He is in a new place, and I will give him the benefit of waiting, and seeing if he has learned anything new, and can actually use it.
So long story short. We shall see.

 

Fair. I'm willing to take a somewhat similar position.

But what gets me just gobsmacked istue collective Steelers internet's ability to lie to themselves. Set pie in the sky expectations and then get mad at anyone aside from themselves when those expectations fail to materialize.

Just this place has gone from hoping the hiring news was premature reporting and not true to discussing how McCarthy will be instrumental in developing Howsrd as a elite QB and handing of the reins of a perennial championship contender to a coach he mentored on staff.

That's quite a bit of wildly optimistic thinking. The guy has how many years of not doing that as track record?

That's all I'm saying. Rein it in.

 

I hear you, and I agree, but I believe he was Instrumental in making Rodgers who he was. Because Rodgers was nothing like the player I remember coming out of Cal. His mechanics, and style totally changed. So I believe we have to give him that at least.

 

I won't push back on McCarthy coaching the Tedford out of Rodgers. There's a reason that parade of Cal.guys faceplanted in the NFL.

 

Like I said, the Steelers did a good job selling a story and quite a few folks here were suckered into believing it!