much like when ND was getting ready to hire their new HC

Does that guy know anything about coaching? If he does….he would be cool. IF he coaches at all! LOL!

lol

If there is any truth to the rumer that the Steelers (Tomlin) made the decision after Arians asked to draft another tight end?

Seriously though, I’ve been checking the internet every hour to see if Arians has bee n fired, not to mention some others.

Potentially good news.

Thanks Shake.

Not that I am defensing BA, or even like many if his plays. But he wasn’t the reason the Steelers did not make the postseason.

Take the career of Sean Payton. He did a fantastic job for the Giants when promoted to OC from QB coach in 2000 (when they went to the super bowl).
In 2002, he was the guy Fassel stripped playcalling duties from (about as tough a blow as an OC can get), the Giants offense improved and they made the playoffs.
He probably would have been fired, but instead left for Dallas where he did a solid job with some weak QBs.
Now as the Saints head coach, the team and offense has done a great job, and a lot of their playcalling is really well done (though I am sure there are people now saying he is doing a terrible job, needs to change everything, etc etc following a few losses).

If it is tough to gauge who will be a good head coach, it is probably just as hard/unfair to say who will be a good OC. And as these things play out, even great offensive coordinators may look terrible for a stretch or two.

In today’s Post-Gazette chat. He hedges it a bit, by saying if there any firings, at most one or two. But says he expects BA to be back. Further predicts “no major changes” on the off-season other than FWP leaving. Interesting to see who has a better finger on the pulse of the organization.

the OC selected will give us some knowledge of what type of offense Tomlin wants. When he showed up two years ago, most observers felt that he was more comfortable with a 4-3 D set and a pass-first offense, but that he would go with the team he had. Now we may see where the team is heading.

I wonder too if LeBeau is considering retirement.

Party time! Excellent!

Passing is fine but when weather conditions are not in your favor you need a run game. Look at the Jets Bungles game. The Bungles were trying to be dependent on the past and the weather conditions prevented them from doing it. Also the Jets were using the short slants to throw then run the ball.

The few big names (Shanahan, Weiss) that have been thrown around are unlikely to settle for a coordinator job, or if they do, they are likely to leave after a year or two to be a head coach somewhere else. Good, experienced coordinators all have jobs elsewhere and won’t walk out on their current team to join the Steelers staff. That leaves a few fired coordinators (Ron Turner, anyone?) plus a bunch of assistant coaches that would move to the Steelers for a promotion to coordinator. Hopefully, Tomlin can find a good young coach who is ready to step up and be our OC for years to come.

I think with firing BA Tomlin is going to impose his own vision of offense. Tomlin in his press conference after the Miami game stated that he wanted he wanted to use logan in the offense.

I’m doubting this will happen, as BA seems to be OK with Ben, but if he does go, if Marc Trestman available ? (Just won the Grey Cup as coach, great offensive coach).

is retiring, so there will at least be a new QB coach. Maybe he will be able to tell Ben to throw the ball away when he needs to.

I read Wexell’s case for firing Arians, but the debate here was more balanced.
I’ve been on the fence regarding the firing issue, and I’m still not sure. Good arguments both sides — good read.

because of the Glazer story

that everyone is complaining about BA’s play-calling and that he doesn’t run the ball enough. Well that may be true and all, but our running game was not consistent at all and we’re usually playing behind so I understand why, in some cases, that he strays away from the run. Mendenhall was on a decline at the end of the season, whether that’s becuase the line was just not blocking for him (which I think is the reason) or he didn’t get the ball enough, we just could not run the ball consistently. Maybe with a new coordinator, we will be able to?

didn’t cause the Steelers to falter this year — player failure to execute is the more likely culprit.

because now I have to go back and remember every painstaking call that Arians made. Remember the Bears game? Before Reed missed his second FG we had a 3rd and short. All you really needed to do was to get the 1st down, run some clock and try to punch it in for a TD. But no they came out of a timeout and threw a fly to Holmes in the end zone that was dropped. Now holmes had been dropping passes all day and thats not an excuse. But why wouldn’t just try to go for the first down there? BA gets greedy – as he admits – and goes for the long ball instead of playing situational football. That is his main flaw – you run a short route, I don’t mind it being a passing play but at least a smart one, get the first down, you can run a whole minute off the clock. If you don’t get the first down then I have no problem. But at least go for the first down so you can give yourself a chance to run clock off it was tied at the point 17-17 if i’m not mistaken. At that point we didn’t know how pourous our D would be without Troy. But the simple fact that BA routinely forgets about situational football and just calls plays to heave the ball into the end zone enthralls me. Look I don’t claim to know more about offense than BA. I don’t even think that he is the sole reason why we didn’t make the playoffs. I’d just like to see better TD production from this high-powered offense that has 4 1st round picks and a Hall of Famer on it. I don’t want to settle for FGs in the 4th quarter. I want to put the game away. Ba isn’t going to change, he is the same guy he was when he was in Cleveland – I guess that is where he ruined a QB by making him throw the ball away. Which is total crap imo. So he is enabling ben to take all these sacks. His game plan revolves around ben breaking out of sacks, which he can do, but that shouldn’t be what your game plan is based around – it shouldn’t be I don’t care if I don’t have enough blockers ben will break out of it and make a play – it should be I want to protect my QB. Ben was sacked 50 times – he isn’t going too play long- he’ll be like a Troy Aikman with 12 concussions that end his career. I don’t see that sack number going down until you get someone in here that will stand up to ben and make him better without taking all those sacks.

He’s the running game coordinator/co-offensive coordinator/OL coach in AZ but being the sole OC would still be a step up right?

http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/playerbreakingnews.asp?sport=NFL&id=702&line=165773&spln=1

Because no one is saying they are mad that Arians IS NOT LEAVING.

Wexell said that the source of the leak of Arians’ impending demise was none other than Arians himself.

http://twitter.com/jimwexell/status/7428264085

I have to say, I can see the positives in Arians and I think the offense performed adequately this season. On the other hand, the offense had the potential to be unstoppable but rarely did that potential translate to the scoreboard. Further, the offense rarely attempted to have any of Coach Tomlin’s desired “balance”. So while I think the lion’s share of the blame for the 2009 season falls on the pass defense and special teams, that does not necessarily mean that the Steelers should not look to replace Arians. My vote (despite it’s complete lack of authority) is to can Arians.

According to National Football Post

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Steelers-sack-line-coach-Zierlein.html