Mike McCarthy Hired As Steelers Head Coach
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we will get more into the championship games with Ben Villain coming up at 825, |
| 0:05.8 | but we wanted to talk about Mike McCarthy, getting hired by the Pittsburgh Steelers as their next head coach. |
| 0:14.2 | Think about it. |
| 0:15.4 | This dude, no one's got a better resume in terms of coaching iconic franchises in the NFL. |
| 0:23.3 | He's pretty good. |
| 0:23.9 | The Cowboys. |
| 0:24.7 | He's been a winner everywhere. |
| 0:26.2 | The Packers. And now the Steelers. |
| 0:28.3 | I was talking to a buddy who's a huge Steeler fan. |
| 0:31.5 | He said, it's the worst hire in history. |
| 0:33.6 | I said, dude, he's won everywhere he's gone. |
| 0:37.4 | They're not welcoming the Yinser back home? No. He's beloved Pittsburgh Steelers. He's a PA native. Like you, Jason, he's a PA native. Exactly. And he wanted to. What are my post will say? You know, I think that my buddy just wants one of these young, up-and-coming, bright minds. Right. |
| 0:54.6 | And I don't know what the future is for Aaron Rogers. |
| 0:57.4 | I mean, McCarthy and Rogers obviously coached, or he coached him for many years. |
| 1:01.8 | It might. |
| 1:02.2 | I think it puts him in play. |
| 1:03.4 | But, you know, this guy was going to the playoffs every single year. |
| 1:08.4 | And then, you know, he got fired because they had a bad year that last year in Green Bay. |
| 1:13.5 | Goes to Dallas. He goes 12 and 5 for three consecutive years. Yeah, I mean, he is 174, 112, and 2. |
| 1:21.2 | That's almost a 61% winning percentage. He's 11 and 11. Is that correct? |
| 1:27.8 | 11 and 11 in the postseason in the playoffs. |
| 1:30.8 | Now look, he had Aaron Rogers, who's a Hall of Famer. He had Dak Prescott, |
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