Kevin Stefanski

The vibes around this situation are not good.

Kevin Stefanski was in a pretty bad situation at quarterback last year with the Browns, almost as bad as of right now with the Falcons.

The Steelers have the home field advantage.

I'm going all Steelers here.

The vibes around this situation are not good.

Kevin Stefanski was in a pretty bad situation at quarterback last year with the Browns.

Almost as bad as of right now with the Falcons.

The Steelers have the home field advantage.

And one of the things that, you know...

I mean, Kevin Stefanski, um, you know, he saw Pittsburgh 12 times when he was with the Browns.

Yeah.

So then again, while that was the Browns with...

For sure he's dealing with that oblique injury, and if he does start, how much is that gonna affect him? Because again, one hit from T.J.

Watt could completely change, uh, the status of Tua, if he does in fact start on Sunday for this Falcons team.

And I think that's a great point that you also made, that kind of went over my head, uh, that I didn't, you know, recognize, was Kevin Stefanski's familiarity with the Steelers after all this time with the Cleveland Browns there.

So, I mean, this number sitting low, especially the total is low for a reason right now.

Do you think there is anyone unluckier than...

Well, not necessarily unluckier, but sort of has had a worse time as a head coach with quarterbacks than Kevin Stefanski?

Stefanski.

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Remember, Tua named the starter almost as a de facto starter.

Kevin Stefanski didn't want to start him if he had an alternative, 'cause he wasn't doing anything in training camp or in these preseason games.

Steelers up to four and a half now.

I-

So that is not, you gotta be able to do a better job than that, and you're in this situation where Tua Tungavailoa is your starter, and you don't really want him to be a starter, and Penix is not responding, or maybe not as quickly as you thought he would, and now you're stuck with potentially Cooper Rush, a quarterback.

And if you're Kevin Stefanski, you might think the football gods hate me.

I think the football gods may hate me.

If you think about the quarterback situations and episodes, dramas that he had in Cleveland, whether it's Baker Mayfield, He was in with Baker, then he was out with Baker, then Deshaun Watson, and we know what happened with Deshaun Watson, then he's got Joe Flacco in there, and then last year he's got Shadord, he's got Dylan Gabriel, and all of these guys.

No, you may have a worse situation in Atlanta than you do in Cleveland.

And that's saying something.

I don't know who's to blame, whether it's Tua with his injuries or Matt Ryan or Kevin Stefanski, but it's a mess.

The Falcons, before they played a game, they are a mess at quarterback.

The Falcons are also going through a lot of the same newness that the Steelers are.

They have a new head coach, although he's not unfamiliar to Steelers fans, Kevin Stefanski, but they have some newness.

They also... have or maybe had a new quarterback in Tua Tungavailoa.

He left practice yesterday.

It should.

I

do think Kevin Stefanski being from the Browns and having kind of knowledge of what the Steelers' personality is does help them a little bit.

I think he'll be able to do some things to minimize it.

The Falcons are also going through a lot of the same newness that the Steelers are.

They have a new head coach, although he's not unfamiliar to Steelers fans, Kevin Stefanski, but they have some newness.

They also... have, or maybe had a new quarterback into a tongue of Iowa.

He left practice yesterday.

It should.

I do

think Kevin Stefanski being from the Browns and having kind of knowledge of what the Steelers' personnel is does help them a little bit.

I think he'll be able to do some things to minimize it.

Fred, the Browns, Munkin, Watson at quarterback, what's the big thing you're looking for and what do you want to see on Sunday?

Well, I just really want to see, you know, If Munkin can work the magic that he was believed to bring him to the Browns to be the head coach, that's the driving force why the move was made from Stefanski.

He's an offensive guy just like Stefanski was.

But he must have told them they felt confident that he could work with what they have, developing the quarterbacks currently on the roster and maybe even future quarterbacks.

So I'm looking to see how he has put Watson in a position to get some positive plays.