Head Coach Candidates Steelers Must Avoid

PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Steelers are now 1 of nan 9 teams looking for a caller caput coach. After Mike Tomlin stepped down pursuing 19 seasons successful nan role, nan squad will prosecute nan 4th caput coach since 1969.

Immediately, nan Steelers' search contains favorites and standouts. Several young, salient coordinators who are destined to beryllium caput coaches are available, arsenic are aggregate erstwhile caput coaches.

With truthful galore choices, the Steelers can't messiness this up, right? Unfortunately, that's thing but nan case. There are respective candidates that person already been floated astir that Pittsburgh must nether each circumstances avoid.

John Harbaugh

Everyone would emotion nan chaotic switch, erstwhile Baltimore Ravens caput coach John Harbaugh going to nan Ravens' astir heated rival.

But let's beryllium realistic earlier we jump to immoderate conclusions. The Steelers conscionable watched their coach of 19 seasons measurement away. By each accounts and measures, he was a bully coach, but had mislaid nan luster that defined nan early stages of his tenure.

Is that not nan nonstop aforesaid explanation of Harbaugh's 18 seasons pinch Baltimore?

If that's nan case, why, then, would nan Steelers take to transcript and paste for their adjacent caput coach?

They wouldn't, is nan answer. And that's why nan Steelers person to destruct Harbaugh from immoderate coaching search.

Mike McCarthy

A autochthonal of nan Pittsburgh vicinity of Greenfield, Mike McCarthy has ever had ties to nan Steelers organization. A Super Bowl victor arsenic nan caput coach of nan Green Bay Packers and erstwhile Dallas Cowboys boss, he comes pinch a wealthiness of experience.

He besides comes pinch a .500 grounds successful nan postseason. Sure, had much occurrence aft his Super Bowl win, but he's 11-11 grounds and has won a azygous postseason crippled since nan 2016 season.

Jesse Minter

While Harbaugh and McCarthy are 2 easy veterans to transverse off, nan Steelers person to constrictive nan database of awesome rising candidates.

One that they tin instantly transverse disconnected nan database is protect coordinator of nan Los Angeles Chargers, Jesse Minter. Minter was a coordinator I named arsenic a imaginable campaigner respective months prior, but that infatuation has ended.

While Minter has seen a dependable climb, I person doubts astir what of his occurrence is owed to him compared to hitching to nan wagon of some Harbaugh brothers. He has a agleam early successful nan NFL, but he shouldn't beryllium nan man to lead Pittsburgh into nan adjacent chapter.

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