Chris Carter here on the Locked-on Steelers podcast.

Mike McCarthy is the Pittsburgh Steelers new head coach.

I'll get you all my thoughts and reactions to it here on this emergency episode of the Locked-on Steelers podcast.

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Fandle. Steelers fans, you have a new head coach. And man, there's a lot of people who got a lot

to say about this. I've seen all over the place. Your boy was able to put up a quick response

because, of course, Omar Khan always picks the most difficult times to do things for my schedule.

Tradeway George Pickens Rafter, I finished an episode. Always, it's when I finished the episode. This time, I'm traveling. As you can see, I'm not in my normal background here. I'm actually hit the road. I'm headed, I'm at the Senior Bowl. So I'll be here. I left a little bit early to beat the storm. So I'm at the senior bowl for this upcoming week. So I'll get you all my insights on the college draft, you know, the NFL draft prospects that are going to be here and being up close and getting to see who the Steelers look at. You know, that's, that was, that was the thing I was going to be focused on.

But Mike McCarthy hired on Saturday before you even get a chance to talk to Chris Schuller and Nate Shieldhouse?

Man, I did not see that coming.

I didn't see any of this coming.

I'm not going to, I'm not going to lie here.

And everyone knows that I took my horn here where I'm like, hey, I called that.

Did not.

No, I did not see this coming. Again, I put it out there. Hey, there's a, I think that there's a chance that Mike McCarthy is the backup option for if Chris Schuola and Nate Shieldhouse and Brian Flores and all these guys don't work out, he'll be the guy they bring in maybe for like two years.

They convinced Aaron Rogers to stick around another year that these guys don't work out, he'll be the guy that they bring in, maybe for like two years.

They convinced Aaron Rogers to stick around another year that they know that, hey, we're going to draft one of 2027. Nope. They just went ahead and did it. Now, maybe they got an inkling

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