Reaction: Steelers Hire Arthur Smith As Offensive Coordinator
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- Опубликовано: 29 янв 2024
- Reacting to the news of the Pittsburgh Steelers hiring Arthur Smith to be the team's next offensive coordinator. #Steelers #ArthurSmith #NFL
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That backdrop is the same face I made when I heard the news. Well played Alex... well played.
I like this hire he was scapegoat for Atlanta failures
@@IsaacHarvison-mt5xt As OC in TEN, he had the same "offense isn't built for comebacks" just like Canada, and it died quickly in 2019 AFCC game and 2020 WC game vs Balt.
@@mc1993 you mean when they were a top 10 scoring offense the league? Scoring 25 points per game and 30 points per game. That's the offense you are comparing Canada to?
"Whelmed" was the exact word I thought of too.
I am in the underwhelmed camp
I’m just glad we’ll have a proven OC with success and is organized. Has new ideas and Titans players loved him. All the options we interviewed were good imo. Being able to focus on just the offense should make Smith be way better if ppl are questioning just due to Atlanta.
I won't judge the move without seeing in game action. One thing down, now onto the draft! Exciting times!
Can't wait for the draft aswell
So sorry Steelers fam. ☹️
We got a proven OC that schemes West coast offense. What do we feel sorry about?
Whelmed is exactly how I felt. Not excited, but not upset either. Hopefully it goes well.
We will see but I’am keeping my expectations low.
One of the top Play Action offenses in the league something the Steelers have been lacking severely for years..Steelers were bottom 4 in the league in PA ATT.
This is a good point. I'm just worried how effective PA is gonna be when this personnel, both RBs, OL, TEs, etc have been atrocious at blocking & reading zone schemes.
I pray that was just an issue that started with & compounded due to Mason Cole, who looked like he had no idea what his zone progression was in terms of double teams, who came off & when to the backer, & etc.
to start with could be pretty certain that the Center position will be addressed. What a nightmare its been. I would wish that Oline Meyer and TE coach Roberts were replaced but Im not holding my breath.@@Justin_Watson23
This was definitely Art Rooney hire
This is your fault Alex!
NOW on to MORE important items-------
SIGN Rudolph!
Youre right. The Steelers tried to incorporate more of a zone blocking scheme early in the season and it failed miserably.
The run blocking schemes fail when defenses do not respect the throwing accuracy of the QB. (they did not respect a pass from Kenny over 10 yards) Those defenses need to get burnt deep a couple of times to open up the run game. Mason proved what can happen when you have a balance offense.
Come on Mike Munchak!
That takes this hire from 8 to a 9.5 out of 10
Yeah... maybe he could talk some sense into Tomlin and move Jones to LT... then get Omar and Weidl to draft Mims, plug him in at RT... then get a real C... and we're good to go...
@@zachg5356 It would take it from a 5 to 10 for me if Munchak is hired for o-line coach.
They should have gone harder at Bienemy .
Totally agree 💯
Could be worse and could be better. Was hoping for someone a little more innovative who had success scheming an effective pass game. It’s fine and I’ll try to be open minded and give him a shot.
He led Titans into number 2 offense in 2020
I am good with this hire. He is an outside hire and someone that will improve on what we do well. He will be ready to go from the start. Just my opinion.
what we do well? I assume you mean run. Well, we were near the bottom of the league in redzone & goal-to-go efficiency relying heavily on our run game...that thing, we do well. Remember all the turnover on downs and FGs? Our run game only improved in-between the 20's. outside of Washington, we don't have the OLine or the TE's for that thing.
@@mc1993if you hate the team and don't know ball just say that. Lmao
@@ragin8323 No, I hate jags who don't know balls. What we do well, didn't get our 2 RB over 100 yards combined until Game 8 vs TEN 157 yds. Only once we faced the bad run game defense ''did we do well" Warren had 2 games over 100 rushing yards. Harris had 2 games over 100 rushing yards. We ranked 28 and 30th in redzone & goal to go efficiency. That means do we score TDs. Higher number is worse. Only when we opened up the passing game with motion routes did it get better. 25th red zone 20th goal2go. Running the ball on 4th down we went 5 of 13 attempts. Passing aggressively we made 4 of 7 fourth down conversions. We have 1 blocking TE in Washington, no Center, a really bad left tackle and an average guard. We rank 14th in attempts, and 19th in yards. Yet we run well? No, go ask mom for a cookie and a glass of milk.
@@mc1993 You did all that yapping and for what? LOL. We were ranked eigth in rushing yards per game the last 5 games when Canada got fired. Followed by fourth in most rushing touchdowns per game that same stretch. Followed by having the seventh highest leading rusher in Harris. Followed by Harris and Warren being top five in broken tackles with 29 and 27 respectively. Followed by Harris being top five (number four) in explosive (over 20 yards) runs. Stop bringing up RedZone bullshit when our pass game was horrendous all year dunce. Know ball 😂
@@ragin8323 For someone who knows ball, they should know there were 7 post Canada game, not 5. Warren's two 100+ rushing games came under Canada. All that blathering you did is pointless, and the reason what we did in-between the 20's is pointless is because Redzone & Goal to Go efficiency matters is since that is what scores touchdowns. You also ignore the back 7 was the weak side of our schedule, and all but New England had terrible defenses against the rush. Even more so the reason we look at RZ/G2G scoring.
Opponent D ranked vs the rush and yards/attempt.
Cincy 26 yd 30 y/a
Arizona 32 yd 29 y/a
Patriots 4 yd 1 y/a
Colts 24 yd 10 y/a
Cincy 26 yd 30 y/a
Seattle 31 yd 27 y/a
Balt backups 14 yd 25 y/a
Under Canada vs Green Bay, Harris had 82 yds 1 TD, Warren had 101 yds 1 TD with "horrendous" passing game...why? GBay's run D ranked 28 in yds and 23 in y/a just like the other terrible run defenses in those last 7 games w/o Canada. New England held Harris 12 for 29 yds, Warren 7 for 11 yds.
It is not the terrible passing, as in just the QB, that was the major issue, it was the offensive game plan of ball control passing to short sit routes. Once we used aggressive passing on motion routes, it created 4th QTR Kenny. We opened up aggressive passing vs Cincy where Pickett and Rudolph were near identical statistically. This is why people wanted a QB centric OC. Art Smith is an Art Rooney II pick, and its back to same old same old. However, if the guy actually does call for QB under center play action pass on 1st or 2nd down of a goal to go situation, which we did not do at all for the last half of the season, it will be a plus.
The game is moving towards heavy passing offense & west coast.. We are moving in the opposite way 🤦♂️
Everything is cyclical. The scheme ultimately has to fit the personnel, unless there's a complete overhaul. Neither Joe B nor Lamar J will be our QB1 next year.
This was a very comfortable and conventional move for the Steelers. I think they needed to do otherwise in order to begin to move this franchise out of the malaise they are stuck in. This is philosophically more of the same. I was hoping for the Kubiaks. Younger guys who come from a successful system where they run and throw the ball effectively. More importantly they have had a big hand in developing Purdy.
I have never been a fan of that zone run concept😢
Not a real surprise. Judging by what he did as an OC, it’s seemingly a good, not great, hire. I would’ve preferred that they taken a bit longer to find someone, but I’m willing to see if he can move things along.
Waiting would risk him going somewhere else. It's possible other candidates' interview schedules or interest didn't match. The sooner the hire, the more time there is to install the offense.
I wasn't expecting this. I thought they would take a look at Kubiak, but we'll see.
I would like to be the first guy to congratulate Arthur Smith on being Kenny Picketts newest scapegoat ! Just one thing to remember Arthur, here in Pittsburgh it’s always everyone else’s fault, just not Picketts
Sure why not.
Let’s keep rolling with 1980’s football, what can go wrong?
He just got fired after great talent at Wr, Te and Rb was way underutilized, plus a bad Qb play that never improved.
Sounds familiar???
Tomlin last hire.
Just seems like a lateral move when trying to step forward with having a more innovative offense. This guy had Bijan, Kyle Pitts and Drake London that he kept on the shelf. Maybe some personnel additions will follow but for now it's a pretty vanilla hire IMO.
This just screams more "we're going to try and run this offense like the 90's" rather than trying to be like the 4 teams that played last weekend
@@colten53You can't compare his HC performance to his OC performance. He wasn't a great HC obviously but he was a very good OC.
He's clearly not HC material. His issues at Atlanta were related to ideas too. They went out and got weapons for a team with no QB...and a bad QB makes Oline, Offense look bad.
@@colten533 of the 4 teams that played this weekend were in the top 5 in the NFL in rush yards
Titans offense was pretty damn good when he called plays
@@iknowsports1137 Derrick Henry can have that effect
Just glad they selected someone that was promoted to HC to Atlanta from Nashville, based on his success as an OC at Nashville.
I’d like to say I’m “whelmed”. I’m feeling pretty underwhelmed. “We need a change. Let’s bring someone with the same offensive philosophy we’ve had here for 40 years. Why would we want to do something in line with what the top off are doing these days? That would just be weird.”
He was set up to fail in atalnta. I dont put that on him. But when he was OC for the titans they had top ten offenses. AJ brown got paid because of that offense, henry had his best years. He loves play action which we all have been wanting more of. This guy is gonna shine here like he did in tennssee.
I do think we need to hire more coaches for better detail on the offense which I feel has been lacking. No salary cap on how many coaches you hire.
When cower took over for noll he brought in an allstar staff and we need to get back to that.
I was hoping that the Chargers OC and QB coach would have been interviewed, along with Alex Van Pelt.
Hey Alex, he did pretty good in Tennessee. The head coaching thing is not that easy. I'm good with the hire, he sounds solid to me. Sounds like this is the guy the Steelers where targeting anyways.
Thanks for the video you have a wonderful day!
I'm up and down with this decision
I think they have the personal to fit his style through
Nobody wants to run the ball more than me, but I’m afraid 14 will not settle for Drake London numbers and we won’t be able to re-sign him. What happened to that TE named Pitts?
Sell off Pickens and Freiermuth for draft capital and grab the C & Tackle in the draft.
SAME SHIT DIFFERENT DAY
I think the OC hire was rushed by tomlin because he wanted to get on the scouting trail. He went straight to the senior bowl as soon as the hiring news broke. Part of me wonders if thats why tomlin struggles with staff building, because he’s in a rush this time of year to get into the draft process
I think the fact that Tannehill was a veteran QB who had his best two seasons under Smith before getting bad again suggests he’s not a QB whisperer but someone who unlocked his potential with the right system. Hopefully he can do that for us.
Tannehill was just as good in Miami before Tennessee. Smith didnt unlock anything for Tannehill
@@ryansmeltzer8232 That’s not what his stats show. His QB rating was highest in his two seasons with Smith; mainly due to having so few interceptions but more TD’s. He also had fewer sacks in those two years. Then his QB rating went back down to what it was before. Maybe that’s a coincidence or maybe not.
They better hire a good QB coach because I understand hire when comes to run concepts. But his passing concepts are very conservative, only question I have are we getting Tennessee Titans Arthur Smith
This hire feels like ARII hire and not coach T's.
Lmao this was most def tomlins hire tomlin should have been fired 7 years ago
Idiot @@NedyahFox
Horrible hire I don’t understand how the Steelers never learn. The league has grown and changed and here we are trying the same thing that’s failed us the last 8 seasons it’s the legit definition of insanity
Chiefly, the question is whether Arthur Smith will abandon gap blocking or minimize it heavily in favor of zone. I don’t think it’s wise; the Steelers are at their best when they run both gap and zone. As such, Smith should continue to run both in a “balanced” approach, which makes sense given our personnel at RB.
Gap blocking suits Najee Harris better; he excels running north/south; and he doesn’t have the best vision for zone, particularly for the stretch, i.e., outside zone. But stretch suits Warren perfectly because of his vision and shiftiness.
Also, minimizing gap plays doesn’t make any sense given the talent and athleticism we have at guard. And if the Steelers take Jackson Powers-Johnson, the center from Oregon, in the first round in this year‘s draft, they’ll have three pieces in the interior of the OL to pull in both directions. Therefore, to marginalize gap blocking is a mistake.
I like this hire. Arthur is a good OC. I don't care what he was as a HC, because he is not the HC right now.
Let’s get a Center first round and put em to work!
George Pickens going to request a trade by week 4 playing for this dude
If we don’t have better game plans and in-game coaching adjustments it won’t be much different than what we’ve seen 😒
the lack of an actual search and not bringing in any other real options or young brilliant offensive minds reallly points to how inept this team is at the higher levels. Tomlin just doesn't know how to do things right. Hopefully he'll be able to use our weapons properly and put kenny in a position for success. Nobody could be worse than Canada. His replacements were good though.
I think it's a pretty good hire actually....
Giving this a C- for now. If Munchak comes with him, a B+. A TE like Pitts was largely ignored in Atl (truly a shame), and I fear a similar situation could happen with Muth and Washington. Hopefully his scheme includes them. Washington was underused in the passing game this year also.
VERY underutilized TE room
An improvement over Canada but how much?
There are High School coaches who would be an improvement over Canada LOL
Take a look at his 'fabled Titans playoff resume' vs KC in 2019 and Balt in 2020. I'd say Smith & Canada are identical in outcome.
The hate from the general public gives me hope. FadeThePublic
It's the right hire because it's "the hire"
I haven't seen the official announcement yet. Is this actually offical
Not announced by the team yet. But soon
I honestly thought the Steelers were going to screw this up by interviewing too many candidates and then loosing half of the pool by taking too long and then having to pick the best of the rest left behind which would be a bunch of ho-hum guys that no one would be thrilled about. Instead, they only interviewed 3 guys quickly and picked Smith. They went completely opposite of what I thought they would do but, got the same outcome. 🙄
No OC is going to be successful if his QB can't make accurate passes. My biggest interest is more who is going to be our QB and how serious Rooney was when he said he wanted Mason back?
its a wait and see approach for me....we have to get better QB play, we have to get better OL play (getting Jones was a good start but we need more high picks along the line).... I'm curious as to where the Steelers are in regards to the salary cap.
Still think we should have at least interviewed Darrell Bevell. More experience than Arthur Smith and has been on a coaching staff with Tomlin before. Maybe Tomlin just doesn't like the guy haha.
Not good enough to renew the Sunday ticket...
See ya!
The reason i dont like this is because of all the things weve heard from Atlanta about him not utilizing the talet and thats been our problem with Canada so we basically just went from a d- in Canada to a d+ with arthur
So frustrated 😞 Needed to interview a minimum of 10 candidates. Terrible decision 😞 6 years of Canada would have been the same. Absolutely depressing. The passing game forced the defenses to lay off a bit opening the running game up. This team has weapons at receiver and TE and this guy is a horrible choice to create new offensive game that we see from truly competitive teams.
I'd say you're right, but the key to the passing game was the running game. The offense didn't take off until we had a top 5 run game in the back half of the season. Safeties would double-team George Pickens and prevent the deep pass. When you run the ball effectively, the safeties have to respect the run more...so they move up and play the run. Which leaves Pickens or DJ 1 on 1 with no safety help over top. If you just pass with no threat of a run game, defenses will tee off on you with the pass rush.
@@zacheryzimmerman5468 The Steelers tried running the ball and until Rudolph came in and created a passing game that defenses had to respect, the running game was terrible because defenses put extra guys in the box. It may appear to be a chicken and egg to some people, but how long has everyone complained about Najee being a terrible running back? Kenny and Mitch didn't threaten opponents with their arm like Rudolph. Warren was able to run the ball a bit better but only when the offense spread receivers out wide thinning out the middle of the defense. Canada's offense lacked running and passing plays out of the same formations also making it easy for the defenses to know when to stack the box or not.
With who we have on the team, this makes total sense. We dont have a proven veteran at QB that can learn a complex passing offense. I'm just happy that we might finally see some play action again, which should help Kenny. If this doesnt work out over the next 2 seasons then it might be time to move on from Kenny.
Alex Q and A ASAP
Bring in Mike Munchak!! He’s worked with Arthur Smith before.
Please let this happen!
They guy who couldn't get the ball to Kyle Pitts
I wish they would let pat meyer and sullivan go and get munchak and a young pass game coordinator. Didn’t pat meyer get fired by arthur smith? Need an OC with a run heavy scheme and his OL coach to work very closely especially with a shift from power to zone runs incoming
Hire a damn Qb coach and Wr Coach
this is a Tomlin special, run the ball keep the score low and play defense. Nothings changed. Same outcome next year 9 or 10 wins maybe get bounced in wild card game. YAWN
Fire Arthur has a nice ring to it
Frank Reich would have been a better fit. Can’t believe they didn’t bring him in for an interview
He will definitely utilize Washington a LOT more and will cuss you out if you cross him. Ask the Saints coach Dennis Allen. The announcer said, "He said what are you doing?". If you read his lips during the exchange he did not say, "What are you doing?" 🤣
Probably the best fit for whatever Tomlin thinks he needs.
Apparently I'm the most optimistic person (outside the Steelers organization) about this hire. I'd be very satisfied with Titans OC Arthur Smith. Would prefer they get him some assistant coaching help though
It's been 3 years bro. He literally hasn't had a winning season in his 3 years. How tf are we suppose to be optimistic.
@@WhoTFareyou2 He had two years of success with a mid QB in Tennessee. Some guys just can’t handle that HC job
@@WhoTFareyou2As HC, not OC.
You can't compare his time as OC as HC. It's entirely different jobs.
What am I missing? Why is munch supposed to be included with this guy?
Certainly not a sexy selection, but hopefully effective and more dynamic than what I'm imagining right now.
This is a bummer of a hire. I really hope I’m wrong.
most OC's promote to head coach, so we got the one guy who's a good OC but not a good head coach. well played...
Give Mason the keys
Steelers gotta stop focusing entirely on the bully ball concept, when the players aren’t bullies
That’s why you go get the bullies bro
O line needs help at center and tackle but they can address that in the draft and free agency. We have the running backs to effectively run the ball game in game out. This is not a bad hire. While he was OC at Tennessee they had the #11 offense in 2019 and #3 in 2020. He can run an offense, you can't. You're probably a fat fk from pit sitting in your basement thinking you could be an NFL coach 😂😂😂
I would love to see you tell them that Sally
@@melvinwhitworth1199 that’s literally what they thought they had / what they were doing this last season and look what happened
@@breakyoneck2 we had a glorified high school coach calling plays for 12 games?? It was gonna be bad no matter what
this would be a good hire if he can bring Munchack back
Well hopefully he does a better job with Najee than he did with Bijan...
Well from what I know the Pittsburgh Steelers offense will look completely different now under ART super super happy ###HEREEWEGO####
You telling me Jerrod didn't get the job? So we're giving up on Kenny Pickett is what I got from this choice. I know it's early, but I am not looking forward to next year.
Jerrod has no OC experience. Thats why they didn’t hire him.
I feel like this is pretty weak. Like it’s just the safest choice but won’t really improve us much in any way.
Mike Munchak is coming back next
his run scheme is the exact opposite of what we were doing this past year with great success. Pretty disappointed, but we'll see..
You must reconstruct the line manly just moving Broderick an finding a new right guard an center bullies
Typical Pittsburg, not flashy but he does fit and maybe fit very well
Can they hire Jard Johnson as QB coach
I think it's solid. He's a steeler type coach. Hopefully Munchak comes back and we draft Mims or Latham for RT and either van pran or powers Johnson for C and we'll beat some teams up
Dude….are you serious
What I really want to see happen is kind of what we did with GM; pairing Khan with Weidl. If we could get a Shanahan/McVay tree prospect as a pass game coordinator to pair with Arthur Smith then I love it.
This was a Rooney hire. Brought in 2 unqualified candidates and Smith, then said take you're pick Mike. Make the 📲 Free George Pickens! *🐐💯 *Free Pat Freiermuth! 🐐💯He's in his contract year and get massive draft capital you need to get the OLine Jackson Powers-Johnson and Joe Alt or the other top Tackle for the Steelers. I want to see GP and Muth go to teams who will use their talent and are in need of talent. I don't want to see their careers get destroyed here in Pittsburgh.
Eh... now hire a QB coach and a passing game coordinator. Not exactly doing handstands here... but we'll see...
They just hired a dude who reminded them of the 70s with that mustache.
Pickett and Rudolph are better than the quarterbacks Smith had in Atlanta. My biggest criticism of the offense this season was that we didn't run play-action enough. I like that they are sticking with building a strong running game. It's better to zag when everyone else zigs.
All the teams who made deep playoff runs had strong running games. Steelers arent doing anything creative here. Only difference is those teams have younger play calling and get receivers wide open in the middle of the field. Seems like the same similar play style from Steelers, they want to run a lot also but they arent going to be creative about It they are going to run on run plays and pass on pass plays and the defenses just laugh
A lot of fans aren't gonna be happy! That said, Arthur Smith is almost the perfect OC....with just a few caveats. The Steelers wanted to play 'bully ball', and that is exactly hoe Smith made his OC bones with the Titans, a few years back. He did good enough to get himself a head coaching gig with the Falcons. Since I'm not a Falcons fan, I can't say why it didn't work for him in Atlanta. What I can say is that Ryan Tanahill (who got to Atlanta the same year) went from not very good in Miami to playoff level ball with the Titans. It'll really get interesting in training camp.
Another zone guy after 3 interviews??
Isnt the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over?
Typical.
I guess this ain’t so popular a hire, but I love Arthur Smith - at least based on his temperament in interviews and on the sideline
He reminds me of Paul Giamatti from that John Adams movie.
If we get Justin Fields then I'll be ok with it.
Yinzers will love this for sure. Lol. I like the hire.
To me, Steelers are doubling down on trying to play close games and lucking their way to 9 or 10 wins.
Awful. Just awful, all the interviews and all the potential options to pick a dud. Steelers continue to Steeler
Least favorite candidate
Im finally covinced between sticking with Kenny bum ass and now hiring this dude we really dont care about winning anymore
Keeping Mason Rudolph and this hire guarantees we will suck for at least a couple more years. Embarrassing 😢 No Super Bowls in the foreseeable future. At best, we make the playoffs as a wild card and lose.
Does anyone with a brain really see us competing with Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson with ANY of the QBs on our roster this past year?
FFS 🤦♂️