Donnie

I mean, I know he has a Pitt connection, and that always seems to score points.

I mean, look how seriously Mike McCarthy is being taken now as a candidate just because he's from here.

But I'm not at a loss with Miami going that direction and the Steelers losing out on Jeff Halfley.

Did you also happen to see that Stephen Ross forgot Halfley's name?

Did he?

At the opening press conference?

Yeah.

I know the morning show was talking about that, so I don't know if Austin has it.

Yeah, but he forgot his first name at the introduction.

I think that's something that's fun to me about all of this.

I mean, think about how often we do it with the draft where we consider guys that the Steelers could have taken and they took somebody else or whatever it may be, like the comparisons you do.

from draft night, from any draft over the years.

We're going to be able to do this now about the coaching search following the 2025 season.

Kind of like what happened way back when.

I mean, like the cycle when the Steelers drafted Tomlin.

I know that he was more of the unknown.

I brought up the article that you wrote that my dad still has saved in storage from when Cower resigned.

You put out a list of guys, potential next-up head coaches.

I think you had Tomlin at number five or six on that list.

You had the obvious.