"My team, may they always be right, but right or wrong...MY TEAM!"
So instead of "overrating" I guess we should automatically "discount" as a parochial mistake anyone hired who is from Pittsburgh. I guess that is sound logic in the "Universe of The Glass is Half Empty."
Guy has been in the league for some time and kept through staff and head coach changes. I'll choose to believe he is doing something right until I see evidence to the contrary.
"My team, may they always be right, but right or wrong...MY TEAM!"
If you haven't noticed the trend of overrating anyone from the Pgh area, well, I can't help you. They put way too much emphasis over getting players and coaches from the local area and that's a small-minded, unworldly way to operate. Does that mean this hire is bad? Nope. Does that change the truth about their trend on over-valuing hiring people from the area? Nope. Even in the draft, they reach for players who come from the region, as if coming from Pgh makes you some how better.
So, you're going to name 7 people out of all the people the Steelers drafted and signed over 15 years and act as thought it makes your point?
Gonzalez played at Pitt, but is from Miami...
What about Ben? Troy? Casey? Heath? Pouncey? Wallace? Sanders? Brown? Ike? Keisel?
How about free agents? Cotchery? Mewelde Moore? Ryan Clark? James Farrior?
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