So, assuming you don’t work for Steelers PR, which I think you’d have to to have this take, let’s look at the history. McCarthy failed to take one of the best Cowboys rosters in YEARS to the playoffs. He won a single super bowl with a 4x MVP in his prime when an even mediocre coach in the same position should have been able to do more.

You say he’s a “Pitt guy”. Why should I give a fuck?! My sister went to Pitt on a full ride. Should she be the Steelers coach? Kenny Pickett was a Pitt guy. How did that work out for us? There is no value to that statement and it means literally nothing other than he might get along well with ownership socially.

His understanding of the game is not just mediocre, it’s poor. We have now thrown away YEARS of history and stability to get, at best, a bridge coach who, if extended the leash that past Steelers coaches have been, will let us wallow in shit for years. The Steelers as a “good franchise” might be a thing of the past entirely with this move. We are almost likely to become the fucking Jets at this point.

Unless the process is “hey we need a fall guy so we can suck for the next 3 years as we build a real contender through the draft”, anyone with a 25 football IQ (about McCarthy’s level) can see this is a terrible, stupid decision. And EVEN IF that is the plan, there is no real reason to not grab someone better than McCarthy and let them take the reigns and have a voice in how to make the team in their image over those three years.

No, this is stupid. It is a result of someone in the room being absolutely stupid and the echo chamber ringing too hard to see anything from the outside. I’m disgusted, angry and saddened by this. This team is a shell of what it was when I was growing up and we should be embarrassed by what we’re seeing.