Steelers to hire Mike McCarthy
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Steelers President Art Rooney II and General Manager Omar Khan will introduce Mike McCarthy as the franchise's head coach at a press conference at 2 p.m. ET, Tuesday, Jan. 27.
Many Steelers fans aren't happy with the team's decision to hire Mike McCarthy to be the successor to Mike Tomlin.
News broke over the weekend that the Pittsburgh native is being hired to replace Mike Tomlin as head coach of the Steelers.
It wasn't strictly because he's a Pittsburgh guy, nor was it simply a matter of his reputation for developing young quarterbacks into NFL winners. He wasn't excluded because he's 62, because Andy Reid is 5 years older, and Sean Payton is only 49 days younger and his team played a home game for the 2025 AFC Championship.
Fifteen years after Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy won a Super Bowl together, the quarterback and coach could reunite in Pittsburgh. Their reunion became an option once the Steelers decided on Saturday to hire McCarthy as coach,