There are many commonalities that tie the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers—though many of those ties have been severed over the past year. Gone are Dom Capers and Darren Perry from their coaching staff, for example. Their shakeup of the front office would seem to indicate that they have the intention of using free agency more. Most recently, they did something the Steelers would never do: fire a head coach—a Super Bowl-winning head coach—in the middle of a season.
That coach was Mike McCarthy, an area native who was one of four head coaches owning a longer single-term tenure with his team than Mike Tomlin has with the Steelers.