The Terrible Podcast — Talking Steelers Coaching Staff News, Patrick Graham DC Deep Dive, WR Signing, & More

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The Terrible Podcast

Football, Sports

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 108 minutes

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January 30, 2026 - Season 16, Episode 87 of The Terrible Podcast is now in the can. In this Friday morning show, Alex Kozora and I get right into discussing the latest news concerning the Pittsburgh Steelers and their rebuilt coaching staff that is being assembled under new HC Mike McCarthy. While none of the coaching staff hires have been made official by the team, several seem destined to happen at this point. Alex and I go over the news concerning the hirings or interviews of Lunda Wells, Scott Tolzien, Ramon Chinyoung, Adam Henry, James Campen, Jahri Evans, Jason Simmons, and Patrick Graham, who will reportedly be the team's new defensive coordinator. Alex and I also address the news that the Steelers will reportedly retain Tom Arth, Scott McCurley, and Gerald Alexander from the 2025 coaching staff. We move on to discuss the future of QB Aaron Rodgers related to numerous members of the reported new coaching staff in Pittsburgh. We also address the numerous links back to McCarthy when it comes to his perceived staff hirings as of Friday morning. With Graham set to become the Steelers’ new defensive coordinator, Alex and I do a deep dive into his coaching career. We talk a lot about his defensive roots, his schemes, his tendencies and much more. We go over his fit in Pittsburgh and his most recent job as the DC with the Las Vegas Raiders. The Steelers have a new wide receiver on their roster as of Thursday, so Alex and I quickly go over the signing of WR A. T. Perry and what traits he brings to Pittsburgh. Steelers AGM Andy Weidl did not get the general manager job with the Atlanta Falcons, so we discuss that bit of news during this show. McCarthy was a guest on WDVE Radio on Friday morning, so Alex and I discuss the main talking points that came out of that 15-minute interview. This 107-minute episode also discusses several other minor topics not noted in the above recap and we make sure to read and answer a few emails we have received from listeners. steelersdepot.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.3	Welcome to the terrible podcast with your host from Steelers Depot.com where you can find all your latest and greatest Steelers
0:40.0	news. It's Dave Brian and Alex Kazoro. Always Lynn talking Steelers. And now, here's Dave and Alex.
1:01.8	Welcome to the Terrible Podcast, season 16, episode 87.
1:06.2	He's Day Brian, I'm Alex Kizora Steelers Depot.com.
1:12.8	Thanks for being back with us this Friday Steelers Nation, busy, busy show even in in the NFL sort of off week here before the Super Bowl Pittsburgh putting together a coaching staff and doing so in pretty
1:18.5	quick order it's not officially finalized but certainly moving in that direction so Dave
1:24.3	happy Friday happy spaghetti day how you doing oh I'm doing fantastic I got the meat out thawing for a for spaghetti day here. And boy, it's been sort of, I've said this several times surreal to kind of watch. This time specifically with the Steelers as they go through really, you know, an upheaval of the coaching staff and to watch the, you know,
1:45.7	the head coach search in real time and then now watch what looks to be the staff being put
1:51.0	together in real time.
1:53.4	Go back to 2007.
1:55.7	We certainly didn't, didn't have that luxury, even though Twitter was around at that time.
2:01.5	But things have moved fast.
2:03.4	And as we'd like to say, too, nothing's official until it's official, but there certainly
2:08.3	seems to be a lot of, a lot of official stuff coming in.
2:12.5	When it comes to the coaching staff, you'll run those down for us.
2:17.2	And I think we'll talk specifically, maybe have a little bit of a longer conversation
2:21.3	about the perceived defensive coordinator coming to Pittsburgh and got some other
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