{"id":702789,"date":"2026-01-25T01:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/702789\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:15:19","slug":"steelers-hire-mike-mccarthy-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/702789\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers hire Mike McCarthy as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Pittsburgh Steelers have a lot of question marks as they head into the offseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On the heels of their 30-6 loss at home to the Houston Texans in the wildcard round, the Steelers and long-time coach Mike Tomlin parted ways, and it\u2019s unclear who will be taking snaps under center in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the first time since 2007, the Steelers\u2019 immediate future was completely unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I say was, because the Steelers announced on Saturday that they hired former Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers\u2019 head coach Mike McCarthy to lead the storied franchise moving forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">McCarthy, who is originally from the Pittsburgh area, has a 117-112-2 overall head coaching record from an 18-year career, the last five of which were spent in Dallas. He has an overall regular-season winning percentage of 60% with a playoff record of 11-11. He did coach the Green Bay Packers to a victory in Super Bowl XLV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Steelers never had a losing season under Tomlin, but they also haven\u2019t won a playoff game since the 2016 season. Under McCarthy, the Cowboys had a little more postseason success, but not by a lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Is he going to be the right hire for Pittsburgh? Only time will tell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But for now, enjoy these:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers have a lot of question marks as they head into the offseason. On the heels&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[45790,228,227,256,1561,2296,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-702789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-afc-north-news","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","13":"tag-cincinnatibengals","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115953096047121790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}