Le Journal

Good luck, Coach Austin. Not happy at all with the job you did here over the past few years, but I'll be the bigger man, and take the high road, and wish you all the best, hoping you get hired elsewhere, so you can handicap some other NFL team's defense, which ultimately, could help the Steelers down the road. Cheers!

There is a significant flaw in the earliest part of AK's process. When hiring for any position, NFL coach or otherwise, the search doesn't begin with identifying a list of candidates. The search begins by identifying the attributes that a coach is expected to fulfill because those can change from team to team. For example, a head coach for a good team like Baltimore will almost certainly have to do things differently than a coach for a bad team like the Browns. Once a coaching position's expected attributes are known then a list of candidates is developed according to who might best fulfill them. I am sure that the Steelers coaching search didn't start with a list of candidates. It started with Steelers leaders identifying what type of coach they were looking for to begin with. This might be an assumption of AK's but I thought I would add the clarifier regardless.