1PM - Mike McCarthy's 1st Steelers staff is coming together; Sports Director Jeff Hathhorn joins to talk Steelers coaching and Penguins
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What is the latest news about Mike McCarthy's coaching staff?
All right, Mike McCarthy's staff starting to take shape a little bit. James Campen, the offensive line coach. What you need to know about him is he was McCarthy's guy in Green Bay for a long time, has a nice resume. Patrick Graham, Jerry Dulac saying they're really getting ready to hire him. It sounded like to me in that story, Bob, he's on his way here or here.
Jordan Schultz has said he is going to be hired. Who knows?
So he has a track record and a resume. It's just not impressive at the NFL level. There may be more to that story. That may be unfair.
He got his start with Bill Belichick for six years, though, so I know if you regard that as helpful, which I do, that could be something.
There are other guys. We talked about Clint Kubiak the other day who's flourishing in Seattle, but he had places where he didn't flourish because the talent around him was bad. But Patrick Graham arrives here. If you just look at the hard, cold numbers, there's not many good ones on his NFL resume as a coordinator. That's just a fact right now. And then, Bob, we see Scott Tolzien, according to Fowler, going to interview for the offensive coordinator, which is not a play caller here, but is still, if you look at McCarthy's track record, guys who do that under him seem to get hired, like Brian Schottenheimer, for example. So Tolzien's interesting. He was backup quarterback for the Packers. under McCarthy, and he coached with him as a quarterback's coach there.
Dak Prescott, they did well with him. Prescott was good before they got there. He got better, though, it's fair to say, when McCarthy got there and Tolzien was the quarterback's coach. Still a pretty young guy, only 38. This seems like a decent hire if it happens. Not a ton you know about him, but he won't be calling plays either.
I like the idea, though. And I like guys who are former quarterbacks getting involved in this, too. You have a lot of different people who've gone through all of the things necessary to be the leader of the offense, and I think that can only be viewed as a good thing. And he's young enough. He needs to go through this. He can learn from him. Yeah, I like it.
Defensively, I think Raheem Morris would have been the choice for me, one of them anyway.
I still wouldn't have Jim Schwartz.
I mean, yeah, Jim Schwartz, sure. If you could pry him out of Cleveland, it would be incredible. Raheem Morris won a Superbowl as McVay's defensive coordinator. They beat Joe Burrow in the Superbowl. Um, This is a really untested coordinator in Patrick Graham that he's bringing in, and he's going to have total autonomy. Whoever the defensive coordinator is, this is like the Andy Reid setup with Steve Spagnuolo, as far as I can read into it. It's basically, yeah, let's talk after the game. I hope you have a good defensive game plan. See ya. I mean, it's just that side of the ball is his, right, Bob?
Yes, very much is, and that's how it should be, I think. Right? You want to have someone who's in charge of that stuff.
At least there won't be any confusion around here on who's calling signals on both sides of the ball anymore. Exactly.
And I think it's fair to say that McCarthy will certainly have an impact. an imprint. His fingers will be on this defense, but he's not going to be the guy who's going to be doing it all the time. And I think he's made that, even though he hasn't directly said that, I think it's pretty clear that he is, his mind is on offense and he will trust the defensive side of it with whomever he, you know, chooses to be that guy.
So McCarthy's the play caller. As a play caller, I think he deserves probably a B-plus anyway as an offensive play caller, right? Yes, I think so.
If you look at numbers, again, we're looking at numbers. A lot of these defensive guys we have not seen. We're just looking at numbers.
Who is Scott Tolzien and what role might he play with the Steelers?
If you're going to look at numbers, the numbers that McCarthy, regardless of whether or not he inherited a quarterback, developed one, used one, whatever the case, the numbers are good. Except in the playoffs. Okay, there are a lot of reasons that could be the case, too.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the latest news about Mike McCarthy's coaching staff?
0:01–3:40
2
Who is Scott Tolzien and what role might he play with the Steelers?
3:40–7:53
3
What are the expectations for Patrick Graham as the defensive coordinator?
7:53–13:17
4
What concerns exist regarding McCarthy's playoff performance?
13:17–20:26
5
How does McCarthy's offensive strategy impact the Steelers' future?
20:26–24:07
6
What are the implications of trading Stuart Skinner for the Penguins?
24:07–24:40
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