Who is Next?

If its anyone besides GW all the assistants will be gone. He will want his own guys.

Since it's nothing but speculation and conjecture, I'll throw out a name.. Steve Mariucci.. He's coached in the NFL with some success (playoff teams in SF), has some success in developing QB (was Favre's QB coach during Super Bowl and multiple Pro Bowl years, Garcia was a Pro Bowl QB and multiple times to the playoffs) and is popular amongst his players.. You can't hold Detroit against him, nobody wins in Detroit. Other than continuity, why not Mooch?

Since it's nothing but speculation and conjecture, I'll throw out a name.. Steve Mariucci.. He's coached in the NFL with some success (playoff teams in SF), has some success in developing QB (was Favre's QB coach during Super Bowl and multiple Pro Bowl years, Garcia was a Pro Bowl QB and multiple times to the playoffs) and is popular amongst his players.. You can't hold Detroit against him, nobody wins in Detroit. Other than continuity, why not Mooch?
I could live with that.

Mooch is a good coach -- but I still want Williams.

I wouldn't hate it if Cowher was the guy... but I would be disappointed from the standpoint that it would mean a new staff and probably some significant changes to the roster.

I'm tired of starting over every few years. At least with Williams it wouldn't be a total house cleaning.

I'd like to see Williams get the chance to take over for the sake of keeping some continuity going, and Blache stay on as DC. GW has earned a 2nd chance.

I agree,so long as williams lets saunders do his thing on offense,also i'm worried how well the team would accept somebody outside the organization right now.If williams is hired and it doesnt work out after a yr,I'd be for hiring cowher then if he was available

We're all assuming that with Grilliams it wouldn't be a complete house cleaning. We don't know that for sure. We don't know what kind of offense he'd want to run. We don't know if he wants to keep the same philosophy on selecting players. We know he'd keep the defense mostly the same but if he's not coaching them 100% of the time we don't know how someone else will call the game.

We also don't know that Saunders will choose to stay. He came to coach with Gibbs because of their history. Remember, he was a head coaching candidate for the Raiders and Rams before he came to us for a boatload of $$$ and to coach with Gibbs.

Knowing Gregg Williams is a loyalist, much as Coach Joe was, this may take the wind out of the sails of GW. The man who he had built the utmost respect for over 4 years and had shepherded the entire team through the death of Gregg's most talented and loved defensive player has left. However, also knowing GW to be a competitor with a history of head coaching experience, that part of me thinks he will lobby hard to earn the vacancy. No predictions from me about what Williams will decide to do. It could go either way.

I don't think the hiring of Cowher would negatively jolt this team. IMO, he would be a better OVERALL coach than GW. His track record and Super Bowl victory speak for themselves. Let's remember, too, that Pittsburgh was NOT a team that ventured out into the free agent market year after year and greedily pursued big names for big prices. I believe they built a blueprint much like the way the Skins are attempting to do now. Is Campbell the next Roethlisberger? No, that's an asinine thing to say. Campbell can be BETTER than Big Ben. Is Portis the next Bettis? Not even at 75 pounds lighter. But would he be able to help make the Skins' O efficient as Bettis (mixed with Parker) helped make the Steel Boys' O efficient? You bet. The defensive results would be consistently good.

For the record, I voted for GW. But I wouldn't be seething at a new hire a la Cowher.

Williams.

I want Jimmy Johnson or Schotty back.