All Activity

lol watch him coach there like 15 years and win 2 super bowls and like 9 division titles.

It's gonna be an interesting one to see that search. One has to assume they will go young coach again. Likely defensive, so Minter, Weaver, Evero all fit that mold. It could be that Evero is a better HC than he is a DC but I question how someone who seems so poor at talent evaluation and has a very flawed defensive strategy will excel at that. Hey, hopefully we find out. I know it could certainly get worse on that side of the ball for us but I suppose luckily it can't actually get that much worse than being dead last and below average. As many changes as we can make to our coaching staff, all the better.

His brother did not want him in the AFC--he said that--so if that was a factor, maybe we dodged a bullet. Funny, but an old college teammate who played in the NFL asked me recently, "Name 5 coaches in the NFL you would love to play for" which caused me to think for a while. Based on my learning style and what little I know of the NFL coaches, I responded: 1. John Harbaugh, 2. Mike Vrabel, 3. Mike Tomlin, 4. Demeco Ryans, and 5. Andy Reid. He asked the same question about coaches I would not like to play for, and all I could come up with is 1. Jim Harbaugh and 2. Josh McDaniels. Not sure about the others, but I would have put Bill Bellichick on the list. I heard that the did not like Kevin Stephanski for reasons I do not like in a coach.

The game has changed so much that running is an asset and not discouraged any more. It used to be all arm, pocket, you don’t want the backyard stuff. Because those guys are generally not great as pocket passers. So yeah I think ratings should account for it.

Like who? We have had far more leave and not pan out than vice versa.

My point is they are not going to make a bad hire, in all likelihood. Evero may or may not be a serious candidate for them. Like it or not, many teams interview certain coaches to check the rooney rule box. But if he is a serious candidate and they do hire him it means there's something there we probably don't see. I HATE Evero's scheme and playcalling decisions, but that doesn't mean he couldn't be a good/great HC. They are ultimately 2 different jobs, especially if as HC he let his DC call the plays. Maybe you're right about Tomlin but I don't get that vibe personally. I doubt they'd have fired him this year, maybe he saw writing on the wall for the following year but based on comments from Steelers ownership I think they were happy with him having them competitive every year, even with the playoff losing. I mean all Tomlin really needed to break through in the playoffs IMO was a QB. Harbaugh got fired (mutual*) because they couldn't break through again despite having a probably future HoF QB and multiple time MVP. I think Tomlin wanted a break and a change himself. I think he'll go back to coaching in a year or 2, but isn't waiting for the right opportunity just actually wants a break and a less stressful media job for now to kinda reset. Also wonder if he was getting frustrated at how the Steelers' FO kept approaching the QB position recently.

Green Bay may very well open up after next season. I agree, I think he will likely choose a spot with a settled QB situation. He thrived with that in Pittsburgh but he had to scrap hard to make do with the parade of misfit QB's since Roethlisberger retired.

Idk, Moehrig plays close to the line and blitzes well pretty often. He had 14 TFL’s and 3 sacks. China is on his third team in three years, and I don’t know if he lit up the world for the Raiders. Don’t know if we can say he’s going to hold back every interesting player.

1 step closer to hiring Raheem Morris as DC

QBR as an idea to incorporate rushing effectiveness was a good concept. Without being able to see behind the curtain, it's hard to know if it is accomplishing that or not. I would say Nate Silver's QBERT has the potential to be a much better metric than QBR. At least his methodology is transparent, anyway.

thanks I get restructuring Horn and brown as they should be here for a long time but man at some point you got to bite the bullet with moton

I'm not Evero's No. 1 fan, but this place has a storied history of celebrating people leaving, then those people go out and perform better than they did here (sometimes beating this team along the way). We'll see what happens. I'd be a bit surprised if he got a HC gig but there's also a history of teams making head-scratching hires in that role. Thankfully, Tepper's not one of them.

As respected as he is, I am not sure a defensive guy can thrive unless he can find himself a QB. Which he has not been able to do for quite a while. So he needs a job that has one in place. Green Bay might have been a good place for him if it had opened. I wonder if Buffalo is tired of McD, if that might not be a good place for him too.

Serious question: does anyone like Mike Kaye? Doesn’t really seem like he brings much to the table.

It's been 6 seasons and an eventual waiving mid-season. Some of these guys just don't pan out. You should be very familiar with this phenomenon as a Panthers fan and especially one in the Tepper era.

Id prefer a QBR measure that just included fumbles and rushing yards / TDs... I think that is the major limitation of QB rating as it stands, the modern game does include more from QBs than passing. But ESPN QBR is like a mashup of PFF rating and real stats disguised as an objective measure.

I knew to suggest that the 8th overall pick in a draft would have some hidden talent or ability is far fetched--

QBR is the worst one because it hides behind the cloak of being "proprietary." ESPN does not publish what the actual basis of QBR is. There is no way for other analytics guys to even critique the math/methodology involved because no one outside ESPN knows what it is.

Don't underestimate how a bad hire can flip that on it's head. IMO, this was a mutual parting of ways because he likely would have been canned otherwise. Also, I am willing to bet his media job lasts until a good HC opportunity presents itself.

I doubt they cut him or injury settlement or anything, he wil get his IR stint I assume. That 5th year option money is fat too. He won’t walk away broke if he has to retire. And we have the 12 month window if it goes like that. I think best case is we find a talented LOT to replace him, maybe he is good enough after healing to slide over to ROT and we can save on the Moton deal for 2027. Moton is on tap for 28.4 million, and change, for 2027 and he he getting close to the end, I think. Kind of thinking if we do 2026 with him it would be time to move on afterwards. It is high finance. PS between WR, OT and QB salaries you can spend all your money. If you can draft we’ll I would think you can play the musical chairs game with the rookie contracts and not have all three as expensive vets at the same time. Somehow.

I am not a Dart believer. As I have said, Lane Kiffin QB's are extremely ill prepared for the NFL. I don't see much difference other than Dart being a big athlete. That's great but he also has zero sense of self preservation and he is likely to sustain several serious injuries if he does not figure this out. Lamar was at least smart enough early in his career to understand the need to avoid those kind of hits. Most successful QB's figure that out(even Josh Allen had to). As for Harbaugh, he is a good coach but I do question if he will be given the time and resources to build there. It could be a prime location for a big time free agent QB once the Dart thing fails. That's not nothing.

Steelers are a stable organization and I don't think any coach they choose to hire will "destroy them." Also Tomlin stepped down for a media job, didn't get fired.

That's just as much on Morgan as it is on Evero.

Can’t believe the defense didn’t turn Brock over a fourth time. Evero let him down again.

I would love to see him go destroy the Steelers and make them look foolish for firing Mike Tomlin.