Degree of excitement…………….

[Badcat]

NO, but it did rain earlier this week, and with us being in a “red-flag” fire alert drought………….

I was working on the upper deck (lawn / garden area by county road), so I took off my shirt and cut-offs to dance in the rain.

Unfortunately I had a pair of your underwear on (i found them in Coolies’ back seat, they were yours as your mom wrote your name on the back band in silver majic marker).

Can’t believe how much duck-tape I* had to use to “Tighten things up” in the waist but especialy the pouch area.

Couple cars came by and honked, but eventually a Deputy Sheriff came by and hollared from the road “ whats that all about”

I replied “I’m dancing in the rain, what the hell does it look like”…….

He said “ no, I’m talking about the circus tent down below the waist……..”

I just said bermuda underwear…………… he shook his head and drove off…………..




Salute the nation

This was incredibly descriptive and well worth the read!

 

[deljzc]

Everyone knows I was gone for a long time because of Tomlin.

I'm back and very hopeful. My hope isn't quite the same as others (I admit I want a bad 2026 season), but it is hope.

I just have to belive McCarthy will finally express the truth that this franchise has to develop a QB to really get to the level we want to get to. And I am hopeful McCarthy has the chops to help get that done.

I mean McCarthy got 36+ TD's out of TWO seasons with Dak Prescott. With two different offensive coordinators.

Just watching different SCHEMES of football will be enjoyable to me this year even if we hopefully lose more than we win. So all the X's and O's this year is what I will be watching with a lot of interest. Wins and building the franchse can come later.

 

[SteelerFan448]

Everyone knows I was gone for a long time because of Tomlin.

I'm back and very hopeful. My hope isn't quite the same as others (I admit I want a bad 2026 season), but it is hope.

I just have to belive McCarthy will finally express the truth that this franchise has to develop a QB to really get to the level we want to get to. And I am hopeful McCarthy has the chops to help get that done.

I mean McCarthy got 36+ TD's out of TWO seasons with Dak Prescott. With two different offensive coordinators.

Just watching different SCHEMES of football will be enjoyable to me this year even if we hopefully lose more than we win. So all the X's and O's this year is what I will be watching with a lot of interest. Wins and building the franchse can come later.

There will certainly be a strong effort to develop a QB. We have a head coach and staff in place to do so, meaning a lot will now fall on the QB to put in the work as well. Another plus with McCarthy is his top assistants were sought after for head coaching jobs. Say what you want about coaching trees, but I like when the Steelers have coordinators other teams in the league want to go after. Not only does it mean success for the offense/defense, but more importantly it typically means team success as well.

 

[Drink IRON City]

There will certainly be a strong effort to develop a QB. We have a head coach and staff in place to do so, meaning a lot will now fall on the QB to put in the work as well. Another plus with McCarthy is his top assistants were sought after for head coaching jobs. Say what you want about coaching trees, but I like when the Steelers have coordinators other teams in the league want to go after. Not only does it mean success for the offense/defense, but more importantly it typically means team success as well.

For years Tomlin’s coaching tree was discussed and magnified. Many here said it didn’t matter, but also many here scrutinized it’s importance.

McCarthy is light years head in that category. If a coach has sought after staff, that means qaulity coaches. That should directly stride with team success.





Salute the nation

 

[Steeler-in-west]

Its a bad sign when the coach is the focus of a lot of criticism. Lets hope thats over with.

 

[xjx]

Tomlins coaching tree was magnified because it couldn't be seen with the naked eye.

 

[diver]

For years Tomlin’s coaching tree was discussed and magnified. Many here said it didn’t matter, but also many here scrutinized it’s importance.

McCarthy is light years head in that category. If a coach has sought after staff, that means qaulity coaches. That should directly stride with team success.





Salute the nation

If the tree doesn't bare fruit, what good is the tree? That has been my argument. Belechick had all these guys get hired, and none of them, unless you include Vrabel, who didn't coach with him I don't think, has done anything. Noll didn't have a highly successful tree of NFL head coaches, neither did Lombardi. I just never thought much of it as an argument to validate Tomlin's lack of success. There were other, more important things than coaching trees.

I understand the quality of coaches thing, but are they that quality if when they get on their own, they don't do anything? Maybe the quality was with the head man in Noll and Lombardi's case, and it made everyone look good, and the cheating is what made them all look good in Belechick's case.

 

[Fiji Mariner]

Everyone knows I was gone for a long time because of Tomlin.

I'm back and very hopeful. My hope isn't quite the same as others (I admit I want a bad 2026 season), but it is hope.

I just have to belive McCarthy will finally express the truth that this franchise has to develop a QB to really get to the level we want to get to. And I am hopeful McCarthy has the chops to help get that done.

I mean McCarthy got 36+ TD's out of TWO seasons with Dak Prescott. With two different offensive coordinators.

Just watching different SCHEMES of football will be enjoyable to me this year even if we hopefully lose more than we win. So all the X's and O's this year is what I will be watching with a lot of interest. Wins and building the franchse can come later.

That’s a strange sort of hope to come back to the franchise with, hoping for a bad season.

They definitely do not have hopes that align with yours…nor do I at this point.

If they do indeed have a bad season with the geriatric QB they brought back to do their version of “contending” with then I think it only shows this roster is far weaker than many of us believe it is.

But as always, to each their own version of hope for a season. I had hoped for a season without Aaron to begin the development of the young QBs and assess where they truly are long term, but that ship sailed. That will be a task for next year unless the old man should get a significant injury…or two.

With the old man in the lineup I have to hope they show the roster is solid, even capable of a playoff win (or more) and address the future next year…in the future season.

 

[Black & Gold Bleeder]

If the tree doesn't bare fruit, what good is the tree? That has been my argument. Belechick had all these guys get hired, and none of them, unless you include Vrabel, who didn't coach with him I don't think, has done anything. Noll didn't have a highly successful tree of NFL head coaches, neither did Lombardi. I just never thought much of it as an argument to validate Tomlin's lack of success. There were other, more important things than coaching trees.

I understand the quality of coaches thing, but are they that quality if when they get on their own, they don't do anything? Maybe the quality was with the head man in Noll and Lombardi's case, and it made everyone look good, and the cheating is what made them all look good in Belechick's case.

noll had plenty of coordinators and assistants go on to coach elsewhere successfully.

 

[SteelerFan448]

If the tree doesn't bare fruit, what good is the tree? That has been my argument. Belechick had all these guys get hired, and none of them, unless you include Vrabel, who didn't coach with him I don't think, has done anything. Noll didn't have a highly successful tree of NFL head coaches, neither did Lombardi. I just never thought much of it as an argument to validate Tomlin's lack of success. There were other, more important things than coaching trees.

I understand the quality of coaches thing, but are they that quality if when they get on their own, they don't do anything? Maybe the quality was with the head man in Noll and Lombardi's case, and it made everyone look good, and the cheating is what made them all look good in Belechick's case.

Belichick's tree was extensive because New England was winning conference championships and Super Bowls. If not for those titles, his coaching tree would've been small or non-existent.

 

[Djfan]

Belichick's tree was extensive because New England was winning conference championships and Super Bowls. If not for those titles, his coaching tree would've been small or non-existent.

His days in Cleveland were lame. Remember "Brain dead Belicheck?"

 

[diver]

noll had plenty of coordinators and assistants go on to coach elsewhere successfully.

My understanding of a NFL coaching tree is the head coach produces other NFL head coaches. The first time I ever heard the term coaching tree was in relation to Bill Walsh and all those guys who got NFL head coaching jobs who were assistants under him. Has that changed?

 

[diver]

But again, if the tree doesn't produce good fruit, is it a valid discussion point?

 

[NYSteel]

My understanding of a NFL coaching tree is the head coach produces other NFL head coaches. The first time I ever heard the term coaching tree was in relation to Bill Walsh and all those guys who got NFL head coaching jobs who were assistants under him. Has that changed?

You want to talk coaching tree?

Bill Cowher had 9 coaches who worked on his staffs that went on to become head coaches.

Bruce Arians, Marvin Lewis, Ken Whisenhunt, Jim Haslett, Dom Capers, Chan Gailey, Mike Mularkey, Dick LeBeau, and David Culley.

 

[stillerfaninfl]

Tomlin's coaches tree

 

[Black & Gold Bleeder]

But again, if the tree doesn't produce good fruit, is it a valid discussion point?

heres your fruit.

uring his time as head coach, four assistant coaches, (
Bud Carson
, Tony Dungy,
John Fox
, and Rod Rust) on his coaching staff were hired as head coaches across the league.