Dulac says Steelers will not hire a former head coach to be head coach
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What does Gerry Dulac say about the Steelers' coaching search?
All right, Bob, I was perusing Jerry Dulac's chat today. Bill in L.A. Jerry. Oh, no, it's not Bill. Yes, it is Bill in L.A. Care to make a prediction on what type of coach you think Art Rooney will go for? Defensive? Offensive? Retread? Young or old? Jerry. Absolutely no retreads. No former NFL head coach. Defensive minded and young, just like the previous three. Does that really... Well, Brian Flores is a former head coach. Right. Does that really have to be the qualifications here? You just eliminate that idea? Absolutely not. And I've heard others say the same. Let me just clarify one thing here, Bob. May I for a moment? Sure. How many Super Bowls have there been in the 21st century?
Why are former head coaches being excluded from consideration?
Wrong. 25. Did you know that, Bob? No.
No, I didn't know 25 exactly.
25 Super Bowls. Would either one of you care to take a guess as to how many, quote, retreads have won those Super Bowls as coaches? I would say 16.
I'd say a ton because Andy Reid and Belichick have at least half.
16. You're right, Bob. That's why I didn't say wrong. Just a guess. 16 of 25. So don't tell me they can't go for a retread. Don't tell me because the implication there is they know better than everybody else. Well, then why have they lost in blowout fashion in seven straight playoff games and haven't done a damn thing in about a decade if they know better than everybody else? They made a great pick in Chuck Knoll all those years ago, made a great pick in Cower, and made a great pick with Tomlin at least for a little while. But that was Dan Rooney, was it not? Okay, Art had something to do with it.
Art was very much involved in those searches.
Yeah, Art probably then, if you're telling me he was involved, was involved in hiring, which they basically did, Russ Grimm, until Dan said, no, I want Mike Tomlin, correct?
I mean, I guess that's how the story goes, yes.
So, you know, because they've had success three times, they've only made three decisions, and it's different people now. It doesn't have to fit that prototype.
And that's Jerry speaking. I don't know if I mean, I know that.
No, but Jerry reflects the thinking, I think, of a lot of people out there.
How many Super Bowls have been won by retread coaches?
They don't want to retread. OK, so it's not just, by the way, Andy Reid and Belichick. They have nine.
Well, if Matt LaFleur became available, he would be considered a retread, but I would love to see that.
Kevin Stefanski, too. John Gruden was a retread in Oakland. He won a Super Bowl. Tony Dungy in Indy. He had coached Tampa. Tom Coughlin beat the Patriots twice. He had coached in Jacksonville before he went to New York. Pete Carroll, he had a pretty good football team in Seattle, last I checked. He had coached in New England and with the Jets. Gary Kubiak won a Super Bowl in Denver. He had coached in Houston as their head coach. Bruce Arians had been the coach in Arizona.
He's the one that sticks out the most. And then he won a Super Bowl.
So I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear that the Steelers are smarter than everybody else and they'll go for their own young guy and they'll identify a guy who's never coached before. If the best guy coached somewhere else, I don't give a damn. And I think the best guy might be Kevin Stefanski. at 43 years old a two-time coach of the year and I think it would be unbelievably arrogant if they don't even talk to him that's what I think because my first question if I was Art would be how did you beat us all the time in Cleveland with no quarterback let's talk for a while about that right Bob yeah I to me he would be on my list too just because of a lot of things that you've said
And again, I view Cleveland as a mess, but I don't think he was the principal mess maker. I think it was mostly their GM, Andrew Berry, and mostly on top of him, their owner, who decided without their consent necessarily to do what he wanted to do with the quarterback game that took him completely out of the mix. So to me, he was the least of their problems. He is sort of looked at as, well, you're a Cleveland Browns coach, so that comes with a negative connotation.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What does Gerry Dulac say about the Steelers' coaching search?
0:00–0:56
2
Why are former head coaches being excluded from consideration?
0:56–2:35
3
How many Super Bowls have been won by retread coaches?
2:35–5:28
4
What are the implications of hiring a young coach versus a retread?
5:28–8:25
5
What factors are influencing the Steelers' coaching decisions?
8:25–11:21
6
How does Kevin Stefanski's coaching record impact his candidacy?
11:21–12:59
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