The best part about this is the following. Either culture matters or it doesnt. If you don't think it matters well that is one of the major pillars of McDermott bs. If you think it does actually matter then you can't discount what the Steelers have done this year with a backup qb and without a healthy James conner. They've lost more talent in the last 12 months than we have been able to put on the field in 30 years and they keep winning. Against good teams. Will they win the Super Bowl? Probably not, but they will win at least 9 games and they will probably make the playoffs. We will not.
Let's see how it ends up. One team talks a lot about culture. The other just goes out and does it.
The Steelers play the Browns next week. Think they'll lose?
Look, you can choose to see where the road is going or you can choose to be surprised when you get to the destination. Whichever way you want to go through it. I'm saying the guys they have aren't getting it done and can't get it done and the outcome for me is inevitable. Whether it happens this January or not doesn't really seem to matter. In fact I think they will give them all another year under the auspices of stability for the QB who will ultimately end up being the reason they all get fired even though it was really the myriad of other poor choices and poor work done in addition to that that will contribute the most to the actual record on the field.
In my eye they are almost exactly the same. Neither one makes enough plays in a game for you to beat a good team. The offense can't move the ball against a halfway competent defense and the defense can't stop a halfway competent offense and they both get absolutely owned by quality.
They will lose Antonio Brown, Ben Roethlisberger, LeVeon Bell and Ryan Shazier in a calendar year and STILL make the playoffs.
If this D is one of the best 3 defenses in the NFL in any way other than meaningless stats I'm the Pope.