Danny Crossman

I mean, I think you can you can probably blame some of it on coaching.

I mean, Danny Crossman's historically his special teams units have been toward the bottom of the league.

It was kind of a baffling hire when they hired him.

In this life, you can't win.

Danny Smith was getting, like, national interviews and, like, attention, and people were saying, "Is he the assistant coach of the year right now?" Because of what he's been able to do.

But he's that quality of a special teams coordinator, and Danny Crossman's a good special teams coordinator too, so it's, it's challenging for him this week to match Danny Smith's level.

Uh, I'm very interested to see if they will be able to do that.

I wanna hear your fifth challenge that you...

Whereas the Steelers are doing much better on punt returns, and I'm sure a lot of that has to do with having Cam Johnston doing the kicking, but they rank 9th best in the league, allowing 8.3 yards.

Listen, Danny Crossman, the special teams coach, didn't arrive here with a sterling reputation.

And he hasn't done a whole heck of a lot through these five games to wash that off of himself.

This past Sunday, the Colts ran their first kick return back by Anthony Gould, 54 yards to get to the Pittsburgh 43.

De hecho, a nivel de temporada la está perdiendo.

Y eso es una situación incómoda para Danny Crossman, incómoda para el grupo ese que tiene que decir: "No, no, esto no puede pasar, no puede pasar".

Así que buenas patadas de Matt Johnson, eh, la cobertura altos y bajos, pero la devolución, la devolución de patadas, eh, para mí no está al nivel y Nguyen está bajo mucha presión ahora, tiene que producir.

Y que tiene que producir también en el campo ofensivo, porque si no lo hace ahí y fracasa en equipos especiales, Hayden Reich, por ejemplo, el próximo partido puede ser un jugador que esté activo, que, que vea sus, sus primeros pases y al final del día es quien puede levantar la mano para que pueda darle un poquito de, de soporte al, al cuerpo de receptores con las bajas que ya mencionabas y que al final es una, una situación presente, ¿no? Respecto a Scorpion, que sabes que Pittman y, y Roman Wilson no van a estar para el próximo compromiso.

Mm-hmm.

I also know that, like, Danny Crossman doesn't have the greatest reputation as a special teams coordinator.

Um, and I have yet to really kind of see or hear anything in my very short time of covering him as a special teams coordinator for this team to make me think that, "Oh, he's gonna get everything fixed."

Yeah, he's re-

I see some benefit there, but for the good of the team and, you know, McCarthy asking me to make the move, I'll make the move.

But anything else from him or Brian Angelico or Danny Crossman?

Yeah, not, not, uh, not when it comes to...

I mean, look, Crossman, as far as I'm concerned, uh, with him right now, you know, he keeps saying we need to fix things, we need to fix things and clean things up.

Special teams right now, especially coming out of this Colts game, is the, uh, phase of this game that's hurting, uh, certainly not helping the team, uh, there.

Uh, a- and you'd, you'd like to see it get cleaned up there.

Yeah, the one long return the Colts had past the 50 after the Warren touchdown, Danny Crossman took responsibility for.

On Monday said that was a bad call by him.

Mm-hmm.

I also know that, like, Danny Crossman doesn't have the greatest reputation as a special teams coordinator.

Um, and I have yet to really kind of see or hear anything in my very short time of covering him as a special teams coordinator for this team to make me think that, oh, he's gonna get everything fixed.

Yeah.

But I don't think he's helped the problem either.

uh the i guess going to that real quick then do you get i don't know i i know danny crossman speaks pretty regularly i'm not sure that you would have like a a finger on the pulse of that with how things are going i don't even know like you know how that goes from a day-to-day perspective but uh are there wouldn't be like a change this quick right like we're talking about leash for players i assume that there's a a leash for him as well as a coach

Danny? Oh, I mean.

Yeah.

You know, no, I'd be very surprised by that.

Now, like one and done, I think that's on the table, certainly.

I think they need to be better than what they've been for anyone to sit here and say, oh, Danny Crossman's safe for next season.

But that's a long way down the road.