Well, Steelers Nation, you got your wish. Everybody
was wishing for a new head coach. Everybody was
wishing for an offensive head coach. We want
offense, offense, offense. Well, congratulations.
You just got your new head coach. Mike McCarthy
is now the new head coach for the Pittsburgh
Steelers. No intro, no outro, raw reaction from
this move right now. I understand that Art Rooney
wants to win. I understand that he's been devoid
of experiencing winning a championship and playing
deep in the playoffs. I understand that. I want
that just as much as everybody else. But the
way that you go about it is wrong. Why in the
world would you make this move knowing, knowing
that you had better options available? You had
Brian Flores. You had Nate Shieldhouse, Anthony
Weaver, Chris Shula. So why would you go with
Mike McCarthy? A move that in some ways just
showed that you're just complacent with where
you are right now. For all intents and purposes,
you should have just tried to convince Mike Tomlin
to just go one more year. Getting Mike McCarthy
doesn't mean that Aaron Rodgers is going to join
the team again. Getting Mike McCarthy doesn't
mean that he's going to have the eye for the
next franchise quarterback for the Steelers.
Getting Mike McCarthy doesn't mean that this
offense is going to be top five, top ten, or
top three next year. You know what it means?
You know what it shows? I, Art Rooney II, am
the most basic, impatient owner in all of the
NFL. I have no patience. I want what I want right
here, right now. And it also shows that the Steelers
fan base is the most toxic fan base in all of
football. Better yet, in all of sports. All you
have is just a bunch of championship hungry,
I want to beat my chest every single season fans
that just can't stand losing all the time. You
go through a stretch where your team isn't playing
good football, and now everybody wants to say,
get rid of Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin's got to
go. We're just so sick and tired of having the
same outcome year after year after year. I'm
just so tired of it. Jersey Jerry, Kevin Adams,
Steel Hero Podcast, OAD Loon on TikTok. Where
you guys at? Where's everybody at? Oh, everybody's
frowning. Everybody's crying. You're crying?
Oh, but this is what you wanted. Everybody was
tired of Mike Tomlin. Everybody want Mike Tomlin
to be fired. Let him go. We need to bring somebody
else in. Oh, you brought in Mike McCarthy. R.
Rooney said, I heard all of your complaints.
I know just what to do. Let me get on my finest
attire. Let me get my finest china. And let me
make sure I serve you Mike McCarthy on a silver
platter. Now everybody's saying Art Rooney is
the worst owner in the world. Art Rooney needs
to go sell the team to somebody else. The Pittsburgh
Steelers are a mediocre franchise. What are we
going to do now? We're so screwed. But this is
what you wanted. But here's the similarity between
Mike McCarthy and Mike Tomlin. Both of them haven't
won a playoff game. So essentially, you got Mike
Tomlin all over again, but except he does offense
instead of defense. See, the real reason why
people were tired of Mike Tomlin was because
of his approach to the game. He didn't want to
change over his coaching staff. He didn't want
to change over his approach to free agency or
the draft or even game planning for games. Instead,
he was under the belief that I believe in my
players and we're going to out tackle you. We're
going to out physical you. We're going to play
our brand of football, not even realizing that
you needed to evolve your brand of football.
Everybody has evolved. Andy Reid has evolved.
Sean McVay has evolved. Sean Payton has evolved.
But the one person that hasn't evolved is Mike
Tomlin. And that's the reason why they're not
playing competitive football anymore. But we
also have to talk about their bad drafting and
bad free agent moves. See, everybody just wants
to blame Mike Tomlin, but nobody wants to bring
up Kevin Colbert. You can't bring up Kevin Colbert
because if you do, oh, the boogeyman might come
out. He might beat you with a moldy primiti sandwich.
No. Kevin Colbert deserves just as much blame
as Mike Tomlin. Those past few drafts were horrible.
How many of those first -rounders are still on
this team right now? How many of those first
-rounders were able to get a second contract
with the Steelers? None of them. So when you
factor all those things in, of course you're
not going to be successful. Of course you're
not going to be playing in February. But see,
this goes back to everything I've been saying
on different social media platforms. The Steelers
need to stick with the model. What is the model?
Hire a defensive head coach. I understand everybody
wants an offensive head coach because they see
how many points they put up and how well the
quarterback does and the running back and the
wide receiver and the tight end. But guess what?
The model that you have is not broken. Bill Cowher
won a Super Bowl. Chuck Knoll won Super Bowls.
Mike Tomlin won a Super Bowl. All of them defensive
head coaches. You could have brought in Chris
Shula. Every single year that Chris Shula has
been a defensive coordinator for the Rams, somebody
has a breakout year. And on top of that, what
people don't realize, he's coached every single
position. That's somebody that you want on your
team compared to getting someone like Mike McCarthy,
who his schemes are okay, but I just don't believe
he's a head coach at this point. If you make
him maybe an offensive coordinator or maybe an
assistant head coach, maybe. But to just give
him the keys to the kingdom? No. But now I'm
curious to see who else is going to be added
on this staff. I want to see who the defensive
coordinator is going to be. Because if I'm Brian
Flores, I'm going back to Minnesota. There's
no point in me staying here. If I'm Anthony Weaver,
I might just go with John Harbaugh again. Or
try to see if I can get a job with the Bills
or the Raiders or the Cardinals. But this is
a trend that we've been seeing for the past few
years. The Steelers are impatient. They want
what they want right there, right now. You drafted
Kenny Pickett, and then the next year you have
Bryce Young, you have C .J. Stroud, you have
better options. You wanted a left tackle oh so
bad. You draft Broderick Jones and then next
year you have a slew of tackles. Better tackles
than Broderick Jones. This is a trend that we
continue to see year after year when it comes
to the Steelers. And at this point, nobody else
deserves blame than Art Rooney. Because all you've
been complaining about is, I want to win a playoff
game. Oh, so bad. I'm willing to do anything
to do it. Do you want my McCarthy? Yes, if it
means I'll win a playoff game. Give it to me.
And now look, so for every person that wanted
this move, congratulations, you played yourself.
For every person that chanted fire Mike Tomlin,
congratulations, you played yourself. So for
every person that was just tired of just the
same old, same old, congratulations, you played
yourself. You know what? I don't think I have
anything else to say. I'm honestly not surprised.
I'm done with this franchise. I'm done with this
team and I'm just done with this fan base. As
always, I'm going to end this episode here. If
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