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🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today's episode: Mike McCarthy’s deeper into the housecleaning Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's three Daily Shot podcasts -- one each on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates -- every weekday morning, plus the DOUBLE SHOT shows that follows up at 4:00 p.m. Eastern!

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to Double Shot of Steelers. I'm Dan Kovachvich. He's Chris Halleck. We're from D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. We cover football and other things for a living. We're currently covering the search to build up Mike McCarthy's staff.
0:27.9	It's changing by the hour, the storyline is.
0:32.7	But there are some beginnings to go over.
0:37.0	Yes, there are.
0:38.2	A couple of things.
0:39.8	Number one, I did have a source confirm with me today that Jason Simmons has, he was working under Dan Quinn with the commanders over the past two seasons.
0:48.4	He did interview for the defensive coordinator position for the Steelers.
0:55.7	Even though they already hired one yesterday?
0:57.7	Well, yeah, yeah, right?
0:58.5	Just checking.
1:00.8	According to ESPN, he is expected to be hired in a prominent role.
1:04.5	That was the wordage used in the report.
1:09.4	But that is not defensive coordinator. I also did have it confirmed that Patrick Graham is interviewing today. Yeah. So he's in the building today. Not yesterday when he was hired. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. So there is a really good chance, I would say, that Patrick Graham, since it won't be Jason Simmons, if he's expected to be hired in a prominent role, that's not defensive coordinator.
1:33.2	And Patrick Graham is interviewing today, that there's a pretty decent chance that Patrick Graham is going to be the next defensive coordinator.
1:40.5	I will find out.
1:42.3	But he hasn't been hired.
1:43.7	But he has not been hired yet.
1:45.7	Has not.
1:46.5	There are a lot of reports saying he has been.
1:48.2	And there might be a lot of expectation that he is from different people in the industry right now.
1:53.8	And that's fine.
1:54.6	But he has not been hired yet.
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