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
against contact couple football good happy hard last practice ran running sat since
I was happy for him. That was his first live contact since last year's championship game. He's been running well in practice the last couple of weeks. He has been a trooper. He has sat there and been patient. Duce ran really hard against a good football team.
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I love coaching, and I love being in Pittsburgh, ... When you get a chance to come back to the place you grew up, there's something special about that. I grew up here, my parents still live here, and I've been able to raise my girls here. We've been in the same house since 1992, and that's unique in our business.
light rookie since
This is as light as Casey's been since his rookie year.
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.
driven forward looking sincerely white
I can't wait. I've driven in Washington, D.C. I've never been to the White House, personally. I sincerely am looking forward to it.
continue desperate giving people seven somewhat team weeks
We've been somewhat of a desperate team for a long time. I think we need to continue to play that way. Like I said before, we are still the same team that, seven weeks ago, not a lot of people were giving us a chance.
access chances limit plenty talk tried
We just tried to limit Ben's access this week. You'll all have plenty of chances to talk to him.
against detroit home lost road situation three wherever win
We were put in that situation when we lost those three games. We have to come back and win at home against Detroit and go on the road wherever we need to go.
disrupt dropping eight good mixed mixing pressure
We mixed it up, you have to. We did a good job, dropping eight or mixing pressure to try to disrupt him, get him out of his rhythm.
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We mixed it up and did a good job of dropping eight and bringing pressure and trying to disrupt them and get them out of their rhythm. They hit some big plays there in the fourth quarter, and we were fortunate to get out of there with the win.
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We missed him. Yeah, we won some games, but this guy is one of the best at his position in the National Football League and is recognized as such.
allowed change mindset pure
We went back to the pure basics, with the mindset that has allowed us to get to this point. We can't change that now.
coming grind knew turned walking
We had the opportunity, even in overtime. It's very frustrating at this point, walking away with a defeat. We knew coming in that it was going to be a grind and it turned out that way.
certainly challenge last played time
We certainly have to play better than the last time we played them. It's going to be a challenge for us.