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
contract guys safety three
We only have three guys under contract at the safety position.
against baltimore basic blitz came defense fortunate last stayed worked
We had another third-and-12 against Baltimore last week, we kind of stayed back in a basic defense and that was a touchdown. This was third-and-12 again and I was not going to do it again, so we came with the blitz and we were fortunate it worked out.
andre bowl coach football johnson national opportunity pro special turned
We had an opportunity to coach him in the Pro Bowl and that's a special player. Andre Johnson has turned into one of the better receivers in the National Football League.
came feeling fine night
We had an MRI (Thursday) night and everything came back negative. He'll be fine by Sunday. He was feeling pretty good.
area bit brought depleted draft pieces
We're not going into the draft with any one area of need, and I think that was very important. And so we pretty much brought a lot of the pieces back. The only place we're a little bit depleted right now is at receiver.
injury looks point six start throw throwing weeks
Tommy had the MRI and right now it looks like he has a non-surgical injury to his elbow. He will not be able to throw for six weeks and then at that point he will be able to start throwing and we will see where he is.
guys human moving rest
To me, those guys are human like the rest of us, and we're moving on.
circumstance
We are just going to look at all the circumstances and go from there.
fly likes team
We're a team that likes to fly to the ball.
special
We didn't play well enough offensively and defensively, but I can't say enough about our special teams.
deal element good handling job last louder noise question rca time understand walked
We didn't do a very good job of handling the noise element the last time we went there. I would like to think that having been there once, you know what to expect. When we walked out of the RCA Dome, there was no question that it was louder than we anticipated going in. Now we understand what it is going to be like and we have to deal with it.
healthy year
We are about as healthy as we have been all year going into the game.
create
To try to create a spark, ... try to get a possession.
beat coaches notice sound watch
You don't notice him much if you don't watch a lot of film. But the coaches see it all the time. He's really smart, he's really sound and, at any time, he's going to come up with a play to beat you.