{"id":136786,"date":"2026-01-24T20:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/136786\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:06:07","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-tap-mike-mccarthy-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/136786\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers tap Mike McCarthy as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy will reportedly become the next head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>The news, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2015130400478183728\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">first reported by ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter<\/a>, means the 62-year-old would become the successor to Mike Tomlin and the franchise&#8217;s fourth head coach since 1969.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy led the Packers to a Lombardi Trophy in Super Bowl XLV, which came after the 2010 season, with Aaron Rodgers \u2014 who played the 2025 season with the Steelers \u2014 as his starting quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>After his 13-year stint in Green Bay ended when he was fired during the 2018 season, McCarthy took the 2019 season off and then resurfaced as the Cowboys skipper in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>His tenure in Dallas came to a close after the 2024-25 season, punctuated with a 7-10 record.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy&#8217;s all-time win-loss record is 174-112-2.<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy will reportedly become the next head coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-136786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}