La Canfora tweets that Hurney is safe

[Sam Mills Fan]

"Tepper has received glowing reviews of Marty Hurney and Panthers football ops/coaching staff from Steelers brass. No shakeups planned there"

[s1lent_kn1ght]

Until he gives Tepper a reason to be fired, keep him along. I liked his moves this offseason.

[Sam Mills Fan]

Just now, s1lent_kn1ght said:

Until he gives Tepper a reason to be fired, keep him along. I liked his moves this offseason.

I actually do too, but considering we play the Steelers this season, I don't know how wise it is to take advice on how to run our team from them.

[Mr. Scot]

Said it in the other thread. Most of us didn't expect him to come in and fire everybody immediately (granted, a few did).

The question will be how he feels after he's had time to work with them directly and see how they perform during the season.

[Panthro]

Hurney historically has not aligned with the Steeler methodology

 

 

[s1lent_kn1ght]

4 minutes ago, Sam Mills Fan said:

I actually do too, but considering we play the Steelers this season, I don't know how wise it is to take advice on how to run our team from them.

Yeah but he also built relationships with those people, have to keep that in mind as well.

[Riverboat Ron]

Except I'm sure Hurney will be wearing his sexy jeans for Teppers first day.

[Toker Smurf]

If I were a rival franchise, I'd want Hurney to stay also.

[tiger7_88]

11 minutes ago, Sam Mills Fan said:

"Tepper has received glowing reviews of Marty Hurney and Panthers football ops/coaching staff from Steelers brass. No shakeups planned there"

 

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Tepper has received glowing reviews of Marty Hurney

 

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glowing reviews of Marty Hurney

 

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glowing reviews 

 

Yeah, everybody knows what's coming next...

 

[Moo Daeng]

Of the 3 ownership changes this past decade 2 kept their GM a year or 2 before making a change. I believe all 3 coincided with a coaching change but they may have been unrelated coinincidences. I believe it was the Browns where Haslam almost immediately shook thinks up. The Bills and Jags kept current GM a season or two.

If the Steeler way is Hurney love this will be interesting.

[Cyberjag]

I don't mind this.  Hurney did a pretty good job in his first stint at GM as well, until JR had his heart transplant.  Then we stopped signing veteran FAs, started making questionable trades and gave out big contracts in what looked like a "desperate to win now" strategy that led to the abortion of a 2010 season.  

I know we'll never really know for sure, but I think the last three GMs for our franchise were largely Hurney 1.0, Jerry Richardson, and Dave Gettleman.  And as soon as DG had some real success, JR got involved again and fired him.

Mind you, this is just me and my tin-foil hat speculating.  And always use tin, that aluminum crap doesn't block anything.

[Mr. Scot]

3 minutes ago, tiger7_88 said:

Yeah, everybody knows what's coming next...

Hey, if I were competing against the Panthers, I'd give Marty Hurney glowing reviews too.

Realistically though, Marty is a pretty nice guy. The Rooneys likely know him via Richardson, so this is logical.

Seeing how he runs things up close, on the other hand...oy.

It's been discussed elsewhere that you don't have to come in and fire current personnel immediately. You can fill open positions like team president, assistant GM or whatever other title you want to create without firing a single person.

That sort of approach would make the transition easier but still keep "your people" in the right places.

[Toker Smurf]

5 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Hey, if I were competing against the Panthers, I'd give Marty Hurney glowing reviews too.

Realistically though, Marty is a pretty nice guy. The Rooneys likely know him via Richardson, so this is logical.

Seeing how he runs things up close, on the other hand...oy.

It's been discussed elsewhere that you don't have to come in and fire current personnel immediately. You can fill open positions like team president, assistant GM or whatever other title you want to create without firing a single person.

That sort of approach would make the transition easier but still keep "your people" in the right places.

So, we never replaced Danny Morrison, right? Name Omar Kahn as President of Football Operations and have Hurney report to him? Does that leave the question of what happens with Tina Becker?

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, Toker Smurf said:

So, we never replaced Danny Morrison, right? Name Omar Kahn as President of Football Operations and have Hurney report to him? Does that leave the question of what happens with Tina Becker?

That's the kind of approach I've been talking about recently (Woodie too).

Lot of people have speculated that Becker will be gone sooner rather than later.