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Remember when Bill Cowher inherited Chuck Noll’s players?

Mike Tomlin’s detractors always find a new angle. As the head coach steps down from 19 winning seasons leading the Pittsburgh Steelers, his critics are still as vocal as ever.

Steelers have many good options — and eventually have to pick one

With each coaching hire that the Steelers nail — and they’re three-for-three since 1969 — the pressure builds to get the next one right, too. So here they are, 19 years after their last search. With plenty of good options from which to choose.

Madden Monday: Art Rooney II ‘wasted a decade,’ so expect the Steelers to ‘hire the wrong guy’

Conventional thinking is that the Steelers will attempt to hire a head coach who is in his mid-30s, has never held an NFL coaching job and is a current defensive coordinator. Their previous three coaches—Chuck Noll,
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