Why didn’t the Pittsburgh Steelers interview more candidates for offensive coordinator?
The Steelers formally announced interviews with only three candidates for offensive coordinator by the time they settled on Arthur Smith. Smith was the last of them. They also interviewed Thomas Brown early on, and Jerrod Johnson. Both are connected to the Sean McVay or Kyle Shanahan coaching trees.
Smith is the outlier. He is the experienced coordinator, which is precisely what head coach Mike Tomlin said he wanted. He wore no obvious ties to established coaching trees currently in vogue.