ZT Coach of the Year Odds

[Wes Mantooth]

(07-01-2021, 07:35 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Stuff like this makes me realize how interestingly fluid the nature of optimism can be.  Going into 2019 the optimistic take on 2019 was that Marvin was stale and not trying and ZT was going to hit the ground running and get us back into relevance with a fresh new style of coaching our proven players.  

Going into to 2021 the optimistic take on 2019 is that the roster was hopeless and it was completely foreseeable that we were the worst team in the league.


Maybe I forget stuff...but going into 2019 wasn't the idea that we:

1. possibly had our Kyle Shanahan/Sean McVey
2. finally had an offensive-minded HC for Dalton
3. finally had a coach who wouldn't bench John Ross because he didn't like him
4. finally had a coach who wouldn't be afraid to use Joe Mixon

What else was there?  I must have seriously missed all the "This roster is total crap, we're gonna go 2-14 no matter who our HC is."  I sure as heck didn't hear that from the optimistic folks, did I?  Again, maybe ZT is awesome this year...more likely the optimists next year are talking "Instant reboot" with our next HC.  

I'll say that I really hope the Steelers' rebuild takes as long as ours does.

Fwiw, one of the people in this very thread, who said Taylor inherited "Marvin's leftovers", also predicted us to go to the AFC Championship in 2019.

So he obviously LOVED the roster then.  But in hindsight?  Taylor was given little to nothing to work with.  Funny how that works.