Thank You, Mike Munchak

It wasn’t fun to read the headline that was sending Mike Munchak west to Denver. Losing him is a blow to a Pittsburgh Steelers that’s had to deal with, or will deal with, plenty of them this offseason. But the only reason why this loss stings so much is because how phenomenal of a coach he is. Ultimately, that’s how I’ll choose to remember his time in Pittsburgh.

Five years spent as a Steeler, time spent as arguably the best offensive line coach in football. The year before, the organization was coming off an 8-8 record where Ben Roethlisberger was sacked 42 times, comfortably in the top ten in the league. The coach who predated Munchak, Jack Bicknell Jr, was an abject disaster, shown the…