It has been a long time since he was with the Pittsburgh Steelers, but former team offensive coordinator Todd Haley is back in the news. Nearly a decade after his coaching stint in the Steel City came to an end, Haley has become an acting head coach once again. It is the second time that he has held the title in the UFL.
According to insider Ari Meirov, former NFL wide receiver and current Columbus Aviators head coach Ted Ginn Jr. was arrested for DUI in Texas. For the team’s game on Sunday against the Dallas Renegades, Haley was named active head coach. Columbus would fall 28-23.
The Pittsburgh Steelers Have Struggled Offensively Without Todd Haley
Jared Wickerham/Getty ImagesTodd Haley spent 2012-2017 with the Steelers.
If Steelers fans were to be told what their team’s offense would look like in the decade since the team parted ways with Haley, they likely wouldn’t have wanted him gone. In the last eight seasons without him, Pittsburgh has posted a top-10 offense just one time.
Furthermore, the offensive coordinator role has been a revolving door for the organization. With Arthur Smith recently becoming the offensive coordinator at Ohio State and with new head coach Mike McCarthy hiring Brian Angelichio to take over the position this offseason, the Steelers will now have had four offensive coordinators in the last eight years. The team also hasn’t made it past the wildcard round since the 2016 season.
The Steelers Have Lacked Consistency on Their Coaching Staff Despite Being Consistent Winners
GettyFormer head coach Mike Tomlin stepped down after 19 seasons with the Steelers.
The Steelers have been one of the NFL’s best organizations for the last 55 years or so. In fact, since 1969 and before the Mike McCarthy hire this offseason, the organization had just three head coaches (Chuck Knoll, Bill Cowher, Mike Tomlin). This just goes to show how consistent the team has been at winning. The fourth-winningest franchise in NFL history, Pittsburgh is now stepping into a new era with McCarthy taking over.
While the organization has had consistency among its head coaches, its staff has had plenty of changeover in recent years, and it hasn’t been because the assistants have received head-coaching offers. Not only has the offensive staff struggled to stay consistent, especially since Haley was let go, but the defensive staff is starting to ride the struggle bus, too. Since the hiring of new defensive coordinator Patrick Graham, the Steelers have now had three defensive coordinators in the last six seasons. That is a little bit of an issue.
As good as Tomlin was at being able to shoulder the load and hold everything together, even if the roster wasn’t always the best, part of the reason that this team couldn’t always go far in the playoffs was that it ran out of gas. The lack of creativity and inability to perform at a high level when it counted in the postseason on both sides of the ball became all too evident. Time will tell if McCarthy can turn the Steelers back into one of the league’s elite teams.
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