"McCarthy grew up in the Greenfield neighborhood, just a couple of miles away from the team's practice facility on the city's South Side. The 62-year-old McCarthy is 1851232 (playoffs included) across 18 seasons, 13 with Green Bay which beat the Steelers in the Super Bowl following the 2010 season and five with Dallas. His potential hire is just the fourth by the Steelers since 1969 and a marked departure from his predecessors, Tomlin and Hall of Famers Chuck Noll and Bill Cowher."
"Tomlin's nearly two-decade tenure included 193 regular-season victories tied with Noll for the most in franchise history and the team's sixth Super Bowl. Perhaps most remarkably, Pittsburgh didn't have a losing season with Tomlin on the sideline. That startling consistency, however, did not always translate to postseason success. Pittsburgh has been one-and-done in each of its last six playoff appearances, all of them double-digit losses."
The Pittsburgh Steelers reached a verbal agreement with Mike McCarthy to replace Mike Tomlin as head coach. McCarthy, 62, grew up near the team's South Side practice facility and has a career record listed as 1851232 (playoffs included) across 18 seasons, including 13 with Green Bay and five with Dallas. The hire represents only the fourth head-coaching selection by the Steelers since 1969 and departs from the franchise's history of hiring largely unknown assistants. Tomlin stepped down after 19 seasons following a seventh straight playoff loss. The team interviewed nearly a dozen candidates before selecting McCarthy.
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