Mike McCarthy back on the sidelines.

He'll be the Steelers new head coach.

We'll talk about that and more right now on Fantasy Football Today Express.

Welcome, everybody.

Adam and Jamie here on Monday, January 26th.

Just saw two very competitive, very close games,

different styles in the AFC and NFC championship games.

But right now we're talking coaches here.

And McCarthy had a really a great offense in three of five years with the Dallas Cowboys.

And those were the three years where Dak Prescott stayed healthy.

So he's got a really good track record here.

He may not be the most exciting hire, but do you like it for the Steelers, Jamie? I do. You know, it's still incomplete for me because of the quarterback situation. You know, so when you start to just take a look at the Steelers, you know, if Aaron Rogers is not there, really the guys that we're looking at drafting, maybe even if Aaron Rogers is still there because of who's under contract, are D.K. McCaff and Jalen Warren. Maybe the tight end comes in the play if it's Fryermuth and they move on from John News Smith. But I think at this point, you know, Kenneth Gainwell's a free agent. They didn't develop a second wide receiver yet, you know, in terms of 2025. So, you know, we'll see if any of the guys that were there

stepped forward, Calvin Austin, Roman Wilson, one of those type of players. But I think just in the case of what this team looks like right now, there's, there's a little bit more hope offensively, because we just didn't love the Arthur Smith offense. So if they get the right quarterback in place. He's talked about this on the full-length episode we did on Monday. D.K. Maccaf could still be a very good

fantasy. offense. So if they get the right quarterback in place, he's talked about this on the full-length episode we did on Monday. D.K. McCaf could still be a very good fantasy wide receiver. I don't think the door is closed yet on him still competing to be a top 15 guy. I think maybe being top five is probably out of the question unless they go out and get an elite quarterback, but that's hard to expect. But I think Metcalf can still be drafted as a number two wide receiver, at least in that range, and produced like a top 20 guy. And Jalen Warren can I still, can still be potentially a solid number two running back. We'll see if Gainwell's brought back. They want to keep him in on the roster. I don't think Caleb Johnson is going to take that much of a step forward and be better than Jalen Warren. But really it comes down to the quarterback. So there's a lot to like about what McCarthy has done. It's not just Dallas, obviously what he did in Green Bay with Aaron Rogers and that group there. But if you look at it, you know, I know you have the metrics in front of you in terms of when Dak Prescott or the stats when Dak Prescott was healthy and what they were able to produce.

So it could certainly be, I don't think it's certainly, it is an upgrade for them offensively just based on what we saw with Arthur Smith, how Mike Tomlin liked to run his team.

I think Mike McCarthy will do better things for that offense.

I hope so.

I hope it's not like his time has passed kind of deal.

Like Pete Carroll, I thought was going to, I know he's not a play call or anything. I thought Pete Carroll was going to do good things with the Raiders, but I think he just, his time had passed in Seattle and it looked like they did the right thing by firing him, which was kind of controversial at the time. And he didn't work out. McCarthy, he's had great talent, right?

He's had great talent on offense.

It's almost like the opposite of Arthur Smith.

And things got a little bit stale in that last year with Dak Prescott.

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