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Scout’s Eye with Matt Williamson: Not very impressive

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Hockey, Steelers, Penguins, Football, Nfl, Matt Williamson, Nhl, Pittsburgh, Mlb, Baseball, Dejan Kovacevic, Dk Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Penguin, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sports, Pirates

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Mike McCarthy's press conference wasn't very impressive, to say the least.

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0:00.0

Well, hello, everyone. I am Matt Williamson.

0:08.5

Matt Williamson.

0:09.5

NFL. How's it going? Things are good here.

0:13.1

So for the drive today, we kind of threw everybody a curveball and went live with McCarthy's opening press conference.

0:24.5

So I wanted to talk about that press conference.

0:28.9

First of all, from what I understand, I'm not a big press conference guy.

0:33.8

I don't listen to a lot.

0:34.8

I get the highlights here and there or whatever.

0:37.0

But I did listen to this one the entire way through and we reacted to it for about an hour.

0:41.4

And I've been told him before this press conferences aren't exactly his specialty, you know.

0:47.6

And frankly, I wasn't blown away by the press conference at all. Now, I did greatly respect

0:53.7

the emotion that he opened up

0:56.4

with, you know, that, yes, we all know he's a Pittsburgher, but this job is different than the

1:02.2

other 31 to him. And, hey, it would be to me too. You know, being a scout for the Steelers would be

1:07.8

different in my heart, in my soul than it would be for any other

1:11.2

team, of course. And I do with, I think his emotion was very real. I don't think that was a ploy

1:17.4

or a game or anything to get people, you know, hooked on them and fall in love with them or

1:23.2

anything of that nature. And I think that's great. And frankly, I don't have anything super negative to

1:29.2

take out of the press conference. However, he did not inspire me in any way that he is super innovative in any way, shape, or form. I mean, a lot of things they talked about were

1:49.1

history and tradition and said things like, this team's been such a great three, four defense for

1:58.8

so many years, you know, implying that, well, we're just

2:04.2

definitely going to be a three four, you know, maybe I'm looking too much into that, but I didn't

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