The Pomp And Joe Show
1PM - The Quiz Show 1-30-2026; Bob Pompeani joins after speaking 1-on-1 with Steelers coach Mike McCarthy
30 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What music do the hosts prefer and why?
I'm really liking this music. You said this is Craig choosing from our available? Yes, this is Craig's big-time new content music. This is good stuff, Donnie. I like good old electric guitar. Don't you? What's your favorite kind of music? It's rock. Good old-fashioned rock? Alternative, yeah. Like ACDC, like metal? A little bit.
Yeah, I had you pegged as a metal guy in the locker room before your high school football games listening to Black Sabbath and things like that.
Yeah, I mean, I would say that that's... Okay, so I had that right.
That's fairly accurate, yeah. All right. So is this, that you've dominated the quiz show, but once we got to the postseason, the savvy old news sound posted a win last week. I feel like I'm on a roll here. Limits, are we ready?
Joe, we're ready. Let's see if you can make it two in a row. Okay, Joe, dealer's choice. Would you like to receive the football, or would you like to defer to the second half that we don't have on the quiz show?
Is that a great question? This is Steeler Super Bowl themed.
Steeler Super Bowl themed.
I feel like I'm going to be pretty good at this, and I feel like if you get off to a lead in the quiz show, you're at an advantage, and I'm ready. I'm going to take the ball and try and score.
All right, Joe. First question goes to you.
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Chapter 2: What is the format of the Steelers Super Bowl Quiz Show?
What do you mean by that?
Well, so the Steelers scored. Do you want to talk it through?
I mean, because of is a very weird phrase. There were special teams touchdowns.
A weird phrase?
Yeah. There were safeties touchdowns.
They scored points due to what? Due to a... Safety. It was much more complicated than it needed to be. But you got it right. They scored points on safeties in both games.
Yeah. Dwight White got off his sickbed.
How about that?
How about that?
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Chapter 3: What unique scoring events occurred in Super Bowl IX and X?
I think it is undeniable that the best movies of all time came from the 80s. Like, completely undeniable. Back to the Future, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
You might be right, actually.
The Goonies. I could just continue to go on and on and on about my thoughts about 80s movies.
Is Animal House 80s? That was the 70s. Well, you know, right around their limits. Go ahead. Question two.
Question two to you, Donnie. Donnie, in Super Bowl XIII... Terry Bradshaw threw four touchdown passes. Three of them were to either John Stallworth, who caught two, or Lynn Swan, who caught one. Who caught the fourth?
Rocky Blyer.
Two for two, gentlemen.
That was the Sports Illustrated cover, was it not? Was that the leaping catch?
That was the leaping catch.
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Chapter 4: Who were the notable players in Super Bowl XIII?
So then this one you didn't say not okay.
But it was a two-part question, so. I got the first part right.
He was offering a bonus point.
Who caught it? It was caught by Ron Smith.
Well, wait. Now, now, now, now. Ron Smith. Well, now, I'm going to bring something up from last week. Oh, here we go, Donnie. I got screwed on the Tom Landry question.
Because I didn't get both parts. Because he said last week he delineated that you needed both parts. This week he said you get one for the guy and one for the other guy.
Donnie, if you have an issue with it, take it up with Ray.
Here we go.
Take it up with Ray. Yeah, I would take that. We're making rules as we go here. No, it was clear to me. Yeah. It was. Donnie, you know that I prefer you to win the quiz show over Joe. No, that's a joke, Joe. Finally, the truth comes out. Two to one me. Sorry, Donnie. That is how the question was phrased. Joe is correct on this.
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Chapter 5: What questions were raised about the coaching staff?
Thank you, Limits. Thanks. He got real quiet at the end. What's going on here? No, I was reading a text. What does it say?
I was reading a text. This show is rigged. Donnie football got screwed.
No, I made a grave mistake. He went Nick Anderson at the end of the NBA finals game.
I made a grave mistake. That's your first mistake, though. You've had an unbelievable year. Now I'm patronizing you. What am I doing here? You've been great all year, though. Seriously. You won almost every one of them. I'm surprised that that happened. It finally happened. I finally got a break in the fourth quarter of a game. That's all. I deserve that.
The whistle went Joe's way. That's a clean Joe W., as was last week.
Yeah, I'm feeling good. Good job, Joe. Thanks. Coming up. Now, Bob, I got a text. He sat down with Mike McCarthy. He tells me if I want to promote it, got to go back to the state oh station and he says hello everything all edited they have Because they have 45 and 6. What does that mean?
He's just talking about when he has everything ready for TV. They're going to have it on probably for the 6 o'clock news.
I have no idea what you're reading.
545 and 6. Bob sent Joe and I a text, Donnie, about his interview with Mike McCarthy.
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Chapter 6: What insights did Mike McCarthy share about the quarterback situation?
It could be that. It could be something different, but I was very interested to talk to him about it because in his press conference, he talked about seven Super Bowls and how the parade will begin in Greenfield Avenue and all this and bring in number seven here. But I said, you also deny the Steelers have a chance to get number seven. And I wanted to know his recollections of that.
And it was really interesting, the stories he told about when he found out it was going to be the Steelers opposing him, his thoughts going into it when it was out of it, especially now that he's pulled back from that moment. And he has some good stories to tell that way.
So the way you put it there, Bob, it is them again just courting Aaron Rodgers, like waiting on his decision. If he says yes, then okay. If he says no, they move on. But it sounds like it's completely up to him if he's the Steelers quarterback next year.
It still sounds to me that way. Yes. And I still think until unless, you know, there could be another part of it that they're just not telling people. I don't know. But, you know, obviously he's worked with him. And I said, hypothetically, he does come back and you work the magic you had in Green Bay. And he went on about, you know, their their successes.
And so, yeah, I think it's Donnie where I don't think it's going to change much here in the next until there's a decision whenever that decision is made.
So, Bob, and I'll tell you what's cooking, brought to you by your local Geico rep, Tim Hester. Thank you, Mr. Hester. Very kindly, Donnie and I thank everybody out here at Bowser Chevy, the power of Bowser, for hosting us again. You said the other day on our show that you didn't think Aaron was coming back.
After your conversation with McCarthy, are you still convinced of that or are you moving the other way on this?
Well, what I said was that I thought his comment, you know, you can look at it two different ways. I didn't think he was as forceful with that comment is what I think people think. In other words, he had to know he was going to be asked that at the initial press conference. And he was not in a position to just say, no, I'm moving on. And if he wanted to, he could have, but he chose not to.
And I think that's in deference to Aaron Rodgers. So I didn't think that was as strong as a statement. So to answer your question, Joe, I think it's more 50-50. I would have had it at maybe 65-35 that he wasn't coming back based on what I thought. It may be more 50-50 at this point.
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Chapter 7: How does Mike McCarthy view the use of metrics and AI in coaching?
Is it your metrics? Who's going to be the person? What are you going to rely on to make those calls? So, you know, he gave those answers. Um, and, and, you know, I think I came away and you can listen for yourself.
He sounds like he's more interested in metrics and AI than mode than I would have thought, you know, because he's, he comes from an area where there wasn't much of that there, but he seems to have really warmed up on it. The fact that he talked about AI and how he wants to use AI, I thought, man, I didn't expect to hear that out of that. So that was one of the things.
And also the size of his coaching staff, we get into that, what he's looking for his coaching staff. And while, um, Obviously, you make decisions based on people you've encountered and people you've worked with. That has a high priority, but I think he's also looking at other candidates. He wouldn't name names because he's in the middle of interviewing a bunch of people right now.
He wants the best coaching staff, obviously. I don't know what the number is. He didn't mention a specific number, but he says as long as it accomplishes what we want as a group.
And does he pretty much have free reign on how many coaches they do have? Is that something that Art Rooney has opened up to him?
Well, I asked him that and the answer was the numbers don't matter, but I get the feeling the answer is yes to your question there, Donnie, although he would not say that directly. But I got the feeling that that's kind of how it is, that if he wanted to, he could do what he wanted with it.
But he also talked about there's a budget for everything, and we have to work within whatever the budget we have for that coaching staff. So I think that's, you know, he had a bigger staff in Dallas. I do know that. That doesn't mean it was the best staff. It means that those are the people he wanted behind him. And I said if it was similar, you know, would you?
And he said, look, we want the best staff, period. How many? I'm looking for quality. That's the issue. So I don't think there's a definitive number, and at least I didn't get one out of him.
Bob, did you leave thinking he's going to have any sort of opinions even on the draft, or is he pretty much just arrived and leaving all that to guys in, you know, Omar and Andy?
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