Darius Slay Blasts Steelers Defensive Scheme: ‘Backwards Over There’

I recall them being competitive games under Cowher, but maybe my memory fails me.

I only recall being humiliated under Tomlin, but that might be recency bias and knowing we have been a playoff laughingstock for 8+ years now.

I DO recall, however, us losing AFC CG a couple of times under Cowher when we were favored and the scent of Marty Schottenheimer wafted through the message boards. It's not all rainbows and unicorns from Cowher days. Not at all. That said, I don't recall ever thinking, before a playoff game, that we have NO CHANCE to win, as I have with the past 5+ playoff games. Even the Cleveland game, which I never thought would be a blowout, even with us handicapped with Mike Tomlin, I didn't think we'd win that game.

The biggest difference was, the Steelers would destroy teams occasionally under Cowher, even in the playoffs.

 

Hope you are wrong, but time will tell.

I get why they went McCarthy, but like many of you, was hoping we'd uncover the youthful, diamond-in-the-rough head coach. I wanted a HC that would press for blowout wins and would press for the offense to score early and often and TD's over FG's.

 

If there was a coach out there like that then Gooddell would squash their dreams unless it was for a specific team or two.