The Las Vegas Raiders cleaned out on Tuesday night including firing its general manager as well as head coach Josh McDaniels. This move makes McDaniels available and while things didn’t work out as a head coach, is a guy the Pittsburgh Steelers should consider to replace offensive coordinator Matt Canada?
McDaniels learned under the immortal Bill Belichick while he was with the New England Patriots and was the architect of some of the best offenses in the league as the offensive coordinator there. Did having Tom Brady figure into that success as well? Without a doubt.
Having said that, McDaniels is a great offensive mind and maybe he just cannot make that transition to running an entire team. This doesn’t diminish his particular set of skills. Not to mention, the bar is low for an offensive coordinator to be an upgrade over Canada.
During the bye week, head coach Mike Tomlin said the team has no plans to make any staff changes but this was before anyone thought the Raiders could cut McDaniels loose in the middle of the season.
