The Pittsburgh Steelers seemed to the previous to seek out their subsequent head coach. For a company that is been progressive with their earlier hires, signing former Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy signifies a stunning step backward.
On Saturday, reports confirmed the Steelers’ plan to rent McCarthy because the crew’s fourth head coach since 1969. He is simply the third rent because the 1970 AFL/NFL merger and bucks a profitable previous mannequin.
Pittsburgh landed on then-34-year-old Invoice Cowher, a rising defensive coordinator for the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, as Chuck Noll’s successor in 1992. Following his 2006 retirement, the Steelers employed Mike Tomlin after one season as Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator over “perceived front-runners” Russ Grimm and Ken Whisenhunt, veteran coaches with earlier ties to the group, through ESPN.
These two inexperienced hires labored fairly nicely, with Cowher and Tomlin every successful a Tremendous Bowl and two AFC championships. McCarthy, 62, represents a pointy change in course. At its most unforgiving studying, it is a signal of a crew out of recent concepts.
