Bill Cowher
Bill Cowher
William Laird Cowheris a former professional American football coach and player in the National Football League. In Cowher's 15 seasons as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team won eight division titles and made 10 playoff appearances. Cowher led the Steelers to the Super Bowl twice, winning one. He is the second coach in NFL history to reach the playoffs in each of his first six seasons as head coach, a feat previously accomplished by Paul Brown. Cowher resigned...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth8 May 1957
CityCrafton, PA
almost coaches group special surreal year
It's almost surreal right now. This is a special group of coaches and a special group of players. All year long they were resilient.
surface work
It may have been more that we're working out on a different surface than what we usually work on in Pittsburgh.
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It's an opportunity that you want to share with a lot of people and the logistics of doing that can be overwhelming at times with all of the requests. At the same time, you can't overlook what we're going there to do. Obviously, it can be very overwhelming to do in just one week's time. People have done it, I don't envy that.
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It's going to be a tough week. But we've been in this situation before. The thing we understand is (Monday) night will go for naught if we don't follow it up with a stellar performance. If we don't, we will not compete with this team.
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It's good to know you still have Duce back there, feeling better and better. Every time I'm on the sideline, he's there making sure I see him and reminding me he's still there. I like the fact he's doing that.
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It's been a good system for us. We've been able to build some depth. It's nice to have a third or fourth guy who can go through a year, watch and then be able to step in when a guy goes down or leaves.
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It's been an inspiration to our team, no question. We talked about it. The fact that we're able to play this last game in Detroit, we're getting him back there. Now what we have to do is make sure this is a positive. That's the message now and the driving force for that team, really.
football game kicked ready
It's become more of a production. It's a big production. It was big back then. I don't know, it's a big to-do. But they still have to play a football game when it's kicked off. At that point, we've got to be ready to play football.
greater required studying trying
It's required a greater focus. We're studying them and trying to find any little idiosyncrasies to give us an edge.
football joey lasted proud
It's just Joey being Joey. I was pretty proud he lasted this long.
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It's just Joey being Joey. I'm surprised he lasted this long (without popping off). He's the vocal leader of our football team and that's the way he is.
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It's experience. He's been there. It's case of not trying to do too much and take too much on his shoulders. The thing is his composure -- he's aware of what's going on and being a leader.
football four turn walking win
It was a very frustrating loss. When you turn the football over four times and are minus-3 in the giveaway/takeaway ratio, you aren't going to win many football games. We had the opportunity, even in overtime. It's very frustrating at this point, walking away with a defeat.
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They certainly will look at his last few games where he probably didn't play as well as he did earlier,