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Well, Steelers Nation, you got your wish. Everybody

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was wishing for a new head coach. Everybody was

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wishing for an offensive head coach. We want

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offense, offense, offense. Well, congratulations.

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You just got your new head coach. Mike McCarthy

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is now the new head coach for the Pittsburgh

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Steelers. No intro, no outro, raw reaction from

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this move right now. I understand that Art Rooney

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wants to win. I understand that he's been devoid

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of experiencing winning a championship and playing

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deep in the playoffs. I understand that. I want

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that just as much as everybody else. But the

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way that you go about it is wrong. Why in the

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world would you make this move knowing, knowing

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that you had better options available? You had

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Brian Flores. You had Nate Shieldhouse, Anthony

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Weaver, Chris Shula. So why would you go with

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Mike McCarthy? A move that in some ways just

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showed that you're just complacent with where

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you are right now. For all intents and purposes,

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you should have just tried to convince Mike Tomlin

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to just go one more year. Getting Mike McCarthy

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doesn't mean that Aaron Rodgers is going to join

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the team again. Getting Mike McCarthy doesn't

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mean that he's going to have the eye for the

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next franchise quarterback for the Steelers.

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Getting Mike McCarthy doesn't mean that this

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offense is going to be top five, top ten, or

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top three next year. You know what it means?

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You know what it shows? I, Art Rooney II, am

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the most basic, impatient owner in all of the

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NFL. I have no patience. I want what I want right

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here, right now. And it also shows that the Steelers

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fan base is the most toxic fan base in all of

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football. Better yet, in all of sports. All you

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have is just a bunch of championship hungry,

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I want to beat my chest every single season fans

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that just can't stand losing all the time. You

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go through a stretch where your team isn't playing

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good football, and now everybody wants to say,

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get rid of Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin's got to

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go. We're just so sick and tired of having the

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same outcome year after year after year. I'm

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just so tired of it. Jersey Jerry, Kevin Adams,

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Steel Hero Podcast, OAD Loon on TikTok. Where

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you guys at? Where's everybody at? Oh, everybody's

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frowning. Everybody's crying. You're crying?

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Oh, but this is what you wanted. Everybody was

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tired of Mike Tomlin. Everybody want Mike Tomlin

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to be fired. Let him go. We need to bring somebody

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else in. Oh, you brought in Mike McCarthy. R.

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Rooney said, I heard all of your complaints.

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I know just what to do. Let me get on my finest

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attire. Let me get my finest china. And let me

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make sure I serve you Mike McCarthy on a silver

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platter. Now everybody's saying Art Rooney is

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the worst owner in the world. Art Rooney needs

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to go sell the team to somebody else. The Pittsburgh

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Steelers are a mediocre franchise. What are we

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going to do now? We're so screwed. But this is

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what you wanted. But here's the similarity between

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Mike McCarthy and Mike Tomlin. Both of them haven't

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won a playoff game. So essentially, you got Mike

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Tomlin all over again, but except he does offense

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instead of defense. See, the real reason why

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people were tired of Mike Tomlin was because

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of his approach to the game. He didn't want to

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change over his coaching staff. He didn't want

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to change over his approach to free agency or

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the draft or even game planning for games. Instead,

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he was under the belief that I believe in my

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players and we're going to out tackle you. We're

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going to out physical you. We're going to play

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our brand of football, not even realizing that

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you needed to evolve your brand of football.

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Everybody has evolved. Andy Reid has evolved.

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Sean McVay has evolved. Sean Payton has evolved.

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But the one person that hasn't evolved is Mike

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Tomlin. And that's the reason why they're not

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playing competitive football anymore. But we

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also have to talk about their bad drafting and

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bad free agent moves. See, everybody just wants

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to blame Mike Tomlin, but nobody wants to bring

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up Kevin Colbert. You can't bring up Kevin Colbert

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because if you do, oh, the boogeyman might come

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out. He might beat you with a moldy primiti sandwich.

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No. Kevin Colbert deserves just as much blame

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as Mike Tomlin. Those past few drafts were horrible.

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How many of those first -rounders are still on

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this team right now? How many of those first

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-rounders were able to get a second contract

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with the Steelers? None of them. So when you

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factor all those things in, of course you're

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not going to be successful. Of course you're

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not going to be playing in February. But see,

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this goes back to everything I've been saying

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on different social media platforms. The Steelers

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need to stick with the model. What is the model?

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Hire a defensive head coach. I understand everybody

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wants an offensive head coach because they see

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how many points they put up and how well the

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quarterback does and the running back and the

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wide receiver and the tight end. But guess what?

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The model that you have is not broken. Bill Cowher

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won a Super Bowl. Chuck Knoll won Super Bowls.

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Mike Tomlin won a Super Bowl. All of them defensive

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head coaches. You could have brought in Chris

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Shula. Every single year that Chris Shula has

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been a defensive coordinator for the Rams, somebody

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has a breakout year. And on top of that, what

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people don't realize, he's coached every single

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position. That's somebody that you want on your

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team compared to getting someone like Mike McCarthy,

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who his schemes are okay, but I just don't believe

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he's a head coach at this point. If you make

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him maybe an offensive coordinator or maybe an

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assistant head coach, maybe. But to just give

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him the keys to the kingdom? No. But now I'm

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curious to see who else is going to be added

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on this staff. I want to see who the defensive

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coordinator is going to be. Because if I'm Brian

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Flores, I'm going back to Minnesota. There's

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no point in me staying here. If I'm Anthony Weaver,

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I might just go with John Harbaugh again. Or

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try to see if I can get a job with the Bills

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or the Raiders or the Cardinals. But this is

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a trend that we've been seeing for the past few

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years. The Steelers are impatient. They want

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what they want right there, right now. You drafted

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Kenny Pickett, and then the next year you have

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Bryce Young, you have C .J. Stroud, you have

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better options. You wanted a left tackle oh so

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bad. You draft Broderick Jones and then next

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year you have a slew of tackles. Better tackles

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than Broderick Jones. This is a trend that we

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continue to see year after year when it comes

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to the Steelers. And at this point, nobody else

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deserves blame than Art Rooney. Because all you've

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been complaining about is, I want to win a playoff

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game. Oh, so bad. I'm willing to do anything

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to do it. Do you want my McCarthy? Yes, if it

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means I'll win a playoff game. Give it to me.

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And now look, so for every person that wanted

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this move, congratulations, you played yourself.

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For every person that chanted fire Mike Tomlin,

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congratulations, you played yourself. So for

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every person that was just tired of just the

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same old, same old, congratulations, you played

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yourself. You know what? I don't think I have

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anything else to say. I'm honestly not surprised.

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I'm done with this franchise. I'm done with this

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team and I'm just done with this fan base. As

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always, I'm going to end this episode here. If

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you guys need. I love you guys. I appreciate

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you guys so much. Keep your head up, Steelers

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fans, is what I would say if I believed in this

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team and believed in this delusional fan base.

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But you guys wanted it. Now you got it. Bon Appetit!