00:00In the meantime, Joe, we do have some history,
00:01which includes the Pittsburgh Steelers moving on from their head coach,
00:04or apparently Mike Tomlin moving on from the Pittsburgh Steelers,
00:07probably going to find himself a nice little home in the broadcast booth
00:09before he probably looks for another job at this point.
00:12The favorite in the clubhouse right now on the Predictive Market Show
00:15is Chris Shula, defensive coordinator of the Los Angeles Rams,
00:18trading at a 44% chance to become the next head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers,
00:23followed closely by Brian Flores and Nathan Shulhouse.
00:26Here's the interesting part, Joe, because I don't want to focus on Shula.
00:28He's the leader right now, young coordinator in his 30s.
00:31Maybe that makes some sense here.
00:33But Brian Flores is interesting to me.
00:35Brian Flores would probably be a very good coordinator slash head coach
00:38if you already had your quarterback figured out with a strong mindset for the future.
00:42Why do I bring that up?
00:43If Aaron Rodgers decided he wanted to come back,
00:45he understands where Flores is coming from.
00:47There's going to be a lot of mutual respect.
00:48The one thing we knew about Brian Flores in Miami,
00:51he didn't want to attack him by Loa.
00:52And he basically said, I'd rather just sabotage you.
00:55I don't want you, and I don't care if you're on my football team.
00:57How do you make him the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers
00:59when you are going to be looking young quarterback, Joe?
01:02Well, I mean.
01:03Are they going Kirk Cousins?
01:05No.
01:06He did play well, better than he did last year.
01:09But if you're Brian Flores,
01:10you know that you bring that physicality and intensity.
01:14They do.
01:14On a defensive side of the football.
01:16And again, we talk about quarterbacks.
01:19Roethlisberger won, what, two Super Bowls?
01:21Mm-hmm.
01:21You know, a blue-collar type of quarterback.
01:23He wasn't, obviously, you know, Tom Brady and Joe Montana
01:27and some of the greats when you think about that.
01:30But he was, he fit the Pittsburgh mold.
01:33But the biggest thing for Pittsburgh is the defensive side of the football.
01:37They have guys.
01:38Watt, they have Jalen Ramsey.
01:40They have, obviously, Cam Haywood.
01:42But they're old.
01:43Yeah.
01:43So, if you look at what he was able to do in Minnesota
01:46and you say, okay, we have a foundation.
01:48We don't have elite talent anymore.
01:50DK Metcalf is good, but he's certainly not like some of the other pure number ones.
01:55We have maybe a complete rebuild in Pittsburgh.
01:59Yeah.
01:59Why not do it on the defensive side of the ball?
02:02That is the quickest way to be more competitive and maybe advance.
02:06How about Aaron Glenn, though, Joe?
02:07You hire Aaron Glenn for the Jets?
02:08Up in the air.
02:09Up in the smoke.
02:10And I'll give credit where credit's due.
02:13Kevin always said, hey, Detroit's defense wasn't dominant under Aaron Glenn.
02:17It was the offense with Ben Johnson, and he was right.
02:20Yeah.
02:21Hey, maybe it is there.
02:22By the way, Joe, the Atlanta coaching job is open.
02:24Raheem Morris was fired.
02:26Second round of interviews coming through now.
02:28I'm looking at the predictive markets.
02:30We are now up to 87% for Kevin Stefanski, which just a few short days to go, Joe.
02:36January 16th, he was at 20%.
02:38Well, I think it's a fit for both people, right?
02:42Think about the two coaches that they had prior to Stefanski.
02:46Arthur Smith, who was absolutely gutless, and Raheem Morris, that really, to be honest,
02:50was a better coordinator than he was a head coach.
02:53Just wasn't the mind that you wanted to elevate this team to the next level.
02:57And what do you have in Atlanta?
02:59You have a young talent.
03:01You have a young quarterback in Michael Pinnock.
03:03Yep.
03:03Two potentially big play wide receivers in Drake London and Kyle Pitts.
03:07You have, obviously, one of the best running backs in Bijan Robinson, a backup in Tyler Algier.
03:13I mean, if you're Kevin Stefanski, you're like, this is like heaven for me.
03:18I had no quarterback in Cleveland.
03:20I had Deshaun Watson.
03:21I had a utilized journeyman, Joe Flacco.
03:24Jerry Judy and the wide receivers couldn't step up.
03:26I had more blocking tight ends than I had, obviously, you know, hybrid type of tight ends.
03:31This is an offense that potentially could cook, and maybe they could get to 11 wins.
03:36I think it's a perfect fit.
03:38Again, I don't know if Stefanski's an elite head coach, but he certainly is head and shoulders
03:44above Arthur Smith and Raheem Morris.
03:46Correct.
03:47And I agree with that, because Arthur Smith, Raheem Morris, sort of a laid back in the cut.
03:51Arthur Smith, let's run the football more.
03:53You need to take your quarterback position to the next level.
03:55Maybe Stefanski's able to do that.
03:57I do agree, and he's a heavy favorite now to take that Atlanta job.
04:00I just want to flip over one more, Joe.
04:01The Miami Dolphins.
04:04Halfley did not have a good end of the season here, but Green Bay did hire, excuse me, Green
04:08Bay, the Miami Dolphins hired Green Bay's player personnel head guy.
04:12Now, he's the general manager.
04:13You know, Jeff Halfley is trading at 73% to be the next head coach.
04:18He's way up now, Joe.
04:21Donnie, I can't take it.
04:23Jeff Halfley couldn't coach Boston College when he was there, and I understand that's
04:28college, but again, what's going to translate to the NFL?
04:31You know, that defense got abused by Baltimore and Derrick Henry for 128 yards on the ground
04:38when they were basically handcuffed with Snoop Huntley.
04:41His defense couldn't stop Cade Streetball Williams.
04:45Streetball Williams.
04:47Go to the fire hydrant and hang a left.
04:50That's what they were doing there in Chicago, and he couldn't stop them.
04:53And you want this guy as your head coach in Miami?
04:55Christ.
04:56We'll see you in an Appeal.
05:12God bless.
