Ray Fittipaldo
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He's calling the plays.
He completely controls the offensive side.
And he hands the defensive side with, I think, almost total autonomy to his next coordinator.
So to me, it's right up there with the McCarthy hire.
Who's controlling the defense?
Who's the defensive coach of the team?
It looks like it's going to be Patrick Graham in a minute or less, Donnie, because I want to get to some calls at the end of the hour.
Your thoughts, Donnie?
I would actually be in favor of this.
Yeah, I know that that might surprise you, but Graham, at least based on what I've seen, what I've read, he has done more with the Raiders who have one star player on their defense.
They have Max Crosby.
Otherwise, I mean, there's not many guys you can name.
Landon Roberts, but that's only because he played here.
He did more with that by a lot of numbers than what Mike Tomlin and Terrell Austin did with the highest paid defense in football.
So I do want to give that one a shot of, well, let's see what that guy can do with more at his disposal because we know the Steelers never really β they don't really spare expenses when it comes to that defense.
Yeah, I hear you.
That's actually a good point.
It's sort of like anything else where is it a function of what was around him?