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
came felt good hopeful opening took
He felt good about what took place when he came out. We're hopeful to have him by the opening of the season.
camp coming guys knee major miss practice says surgery took training year
He never took a day off, either. Those are two guys that are coming off major knee surgery a year ago and to get through a training camp and not miss practice says a lot.
expect
We expect to have him for the opener.
choices deal dealt decisions mindset talking thinking time waste whatever
Whatever happens, and you kind of deal with the circumstances that you are dealt with. I think, at this point, that is the mindset that we have to have and we will deal with whatever decisions or other choices we have at that time. I am not going to waste any time thinking about that or talking about that.
ourselves since underdogs week
We've been underdogs pretty much every week since we got into this thing. We don't take ourselves too seriously.
niche proud teams
We're proud of the teams of the 1970s. But we have our own niche right now.
bring effort eyes flawless football last national played playing seed team time
We're playing the No. 1 seed in the AFC and in many people's eyes the No. 1 team in the National Football League. We're going to have to play so much better than we played the last time we played them, and we're going to have to play better than we played last week. It's going to take a flawless effort on our part. We're going to have to bring everything we have and more.
beat best bring detroit disguise game kicking options riding safe winning
Options are cool. I think we should play it safe and just beat the Lions. But we can't take them lightly. Well, we can, and we probably will, but we'll disguise it well. Like Harrington said earlier, Detroit is riding a one-game winning streak, and their kicking game is on fire. We know Detroit will give us their best shot, so we better bring our C game at worst.
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ends tight worked
Some of our tight ends have worked in that area.
took
Some of those games, when we took Jerome out, (Haynes) wasn't too bad.
liked people seeing thrown
My record? Well, it is what it is. People can say what they like about me, and that's fine. What I've never liked is seeing other people getting thrown in there with me.
against flying jaw line lower
Let me in on this. Shanahan, I'll put my lower jaw and flying spittle on the line against your beady, darting eyes.
I just know right now, we are not where we need to be,