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Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike McCarthy reach agreement to be next head coach

PITTSBURGH — Mike McCarthy is coming home. The Pittsburgh Steelers announced Saturday the club has reached a verbal agreement with McCarthy to replace Mike Tomlin as head coach. McCarthy grew up in the Greenfield neighborhood, just a couple of miles away from the team’s practice ...

Reports: Steelers plan to hire Mike McCarthy

According to several media outlets, including ESPN Senior NFL Insider Adam Schefter, the Steelers plan to hire Pittsburgh native Mike McCarthy as their next head coach. McCarthy would replace Mike Tomlin, who stepped down after spending 19 seasons with the Steelers. McCarthy won a Super Bowl ...

Steelers interview Mike McCarthy

PITTSBURGH — The Steelers interviewed Pittsburgh native Mike McCarthy for their vacant head coaching position on Wednesday. McCarthy is now the second candidate to interview in person for the position opened when Mike Tomlin stepped down after 19 seasons. McCarthy was a head coach for the ...

Life without Tomlin begins for Steelers

PITTSBURGH — Art Rooney II sensed Mike Tomlin might be ready for a change. Nineteen years doing any job is a long time, let alone in the white-hot spotlight that comes with coaching the Pittsburgh Steelers. So when Tomlin walked into Rooney’s office on Tuesday and told his longtime boss ...

The end of an era: Tomlin decides 19 seasons is enough in Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH — Mike Tomlin was an unknown when the Pittsburgh Steelers plucked him from obscurity in 2007 and handed the young and charismatic Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator one of the most stable jobs in sports. Over the next 19 seasons, Tomlin wrote his own chapter with one of the ...

Steelers now find themselves in NFL’s purgatory

PITTSBURGH — Mike Tomlin, as always, got right to the point. “When you don’t get it done, words are cheap,” a subdued Tomlin said Monday night after the Pittsburgh Steelers were quickly ushered out of the playoffs again, this time in a 30-6 loss to Houston. “It’s about what you do ...