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Steelers hiring McCarthy

Gildong Sack said:
That's not what DEI is either. DEI makes marginalized groups feel welcome, advertises for job openings in communities that are again, marginalized, etc.. You still have to be qualified to get the job. You are confusing Affirmative Action and DEI.

Why are you wasting time here? Don't you have a Klan rally tonight? Or maybe you have to get that appeal letter written to the ICE Gestapo that rejected you. You can read and write obviously from your interactions on this board...so that means you are probably way over qualified for ICE, but one can dream......
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This made my day... cuz my tequila bottle is nearly empty!!!
 
Gildong Sack said:
That's not what DEI is either. DEI makes marginalized groups feel welcome, advertises for job openings in communities that are again, marginalized, etc.. You still have to be qualified to get the job. You are confusing Affirmative Action and DEI.

Why are you wasting time here? Don't you have a Klan rally tonight? Or maybe you have to get that appeal letter written to the ICE Gestapo that rejected you. You can read and write obviously from your interactions on this board...so that means you are probably way over qualified for ICE, but one can dream......
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Why bring your ICE into the football forum? Let's just talk football here.
 
dv13 said:
Dak is the most damning evidence AGAINST the notion. He just amped up his volume and made him throw more. He was less successful in critical situations, more INTs, and ultimately worse performance when it mattered in the playoffs. He was actually better/more competitive under the previous regime than McCarthy's in the playoffs. McCarthy didn't play to Dak's strengths; rather he challenged him to be more analytical with harder reads he just couldn't make. That rigidity does not adapt or develop, and there's no evidence Dak was better for having McCarthy as his coach.

Brooks from 2000-2004:

Year Att Yards TD INT YPA Record
2000 399 2,427 14 10 6.1 10-6
2001 519 3,863 26 12 7.1 7-9
2002 528 3,841 27 13 7.3 9-7
2003 552 4,023 28 18 7.2 8–8
2004 581 4,239 28 18 7.3 8–8

Not screaming development to me. Those are fairly pedestrian stats as an NFL QB goes, average QBR of 86, which was average for the era. Now, if we are trying to say Brooks subsequent decline is because McCarthy left, I think that's a reach given what happened with the Saints as a team, not to mention it's a very small sample. Brooks was no Moon by the numbers, either.

Like I said, McCarthy as some sort of mythical QB developer is a fairy tale.
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Brooks was a much more productive NFL QB than he probably had any business being, and McCarthy was a big reason why.

Brooks was regularly throwing 25+ tds in an era when it was like 35+ today. There were a lot of INTs, but Brooks was a flawed QB that McCarthy got the most out of.

To suggest otherwise is just blind conjecture, as Brooks was completely out of the league not long after.
 
This is getting socks for Christmas.

McCarthy is a decent coach. It's not a bad hire but it feels like the safe choice. It all depends now on the OC and DC hires. Maybe they can still land Sheelhaas as the OC and then get a good DC. The steelers defense has been outdated for years so just about any DC will be an upgrade.
 
deljzc said:
Well, too old Art Rooney, a 5-year deal means this is a MINIMUM 4-year experiment to find a QB. It's either fire him or give him an extension in 2030.

One of my friends who is a die-hard packers fan texted me.... "McCarthy!!! LOL"..... that's not a good sign.
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Yep. I have had Dallas and Eagles fans text me laughing.
 
Steelr4evr said:
Well they stayed 100% close to home getting a Pittsburgh native. He knows 100% what the standard is. He watched it and rooted for it as a young man.


I'm looking for positives here. I don't know why they didn't wait to interview more people.

I'm sure we will get that news soon enough.
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The only thing I can really say is that most analysts (even before Tomlin
Steelr4evr said:
Well they stayed 100% close to home getting a Pittsburgh native. He knows 100% what the standard is. He watched it and rooted for it as a young man.


I'm looking for positives here. I don't know why they didn't wait to interview more people.

I'm sure we will get that news soon enough.
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the only thing I can really say is that most analysts/football people said (even before Tomlin walked away) that this years coaching cycle was, generally, thought of as “poor.” The only really excitement was brought out from the McVay tree because he’s the hottest coach in the league. The most exciting one hasn’t even held a coordinator position yet. I don’t want to give the “brain trust” any credit, but maybe they identified it as a stop-gap, and tried to make the best out of a bad situation.
 
skialta said:
They should have just promoted Arthur Smith.


I am just disgusted about the lack of FUTURE direction from this team.

Best I can hope for is that Schefter jumped the gun on this story
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Unfortunately it is real. 5 years full of real.
 
As mentioned, he's the safe choice.
My guess is that Shula knows he's the hot commodity and wanted more money than Deuce was willing to pay.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
As mentioned, he's the safe choice.
My guess is that Shula knows he's the hot commodity and wanted more money than Deuce was willing to pay.
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Dejan of DK Sports is speculating that both Scheelhause and Shula may have expressed in their virtual interviews wanting a Sean McVay-type coaching staff structure, but Rooney won't pay for it.

No sure what he is basing that on, but I really hope it isnt true.
 
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