Hey Bill!

Dear Mr. Cowher,
I would really like to know immediately if you are forever done with coaching in the NFL?

If not, I know of a certain team that you may be able to resurrect. This team is not an unfamiliar set of guys but they certainly need some of that chin music that has been missing.

You see, their OC is being scapegoated for all of the drops and fumbles caused by the QB that you didn't see eye to eye with at one time either.

Mr. LeBeau seems to have his bend but do not break Defense off to a lethargic pace without somebody firing off to anybody within an earshot.

Yes, our O-Line is still in shambles and our punter is still pathetic but these people really need some of your old fashioned MLB mentality.

Please, if you are not done in the NFL, stop by for a visit. I will even carry your bags for you. I could also help pack the other guys.

 

I miss the Chin... his teams have never been so....well....




I would love to know what he really thinks of watching this current Steelers team. He has to be sick.

 

I just have this gut feeling that "The Chin" will end up with the Giants.

 

Hope not. Don't think he's done coaching but I would hope he would consider his roots over glitz and glamour.

 

Methinks it might be wimmin related ... if that makes him happy, then so be it.

 

How soon they forget Cowhers 3 straight non playoff years. Or his 2-6 egg to start the season after SB 40.

 

From what I understand he essentially lives in NYC now.

 

I didn't forget that. I actually heard Cowher say that a fan was so mad at him at a gas station that year that he thought he was gonna have to fight the guy. I wonder if Tomlin faces situations like that too? I just want to say, for the record, that I do not think Bill Cowher will ever coach the Steelers again even if we went 0-16 I don't think he would come back. Just my opinion though. He was just as stubborn as Tomlin in certain ways too. He was just as stubborn as Haley also. Believe me he used to make me INSANELY mad when he would play Marty Ball.

 

I recon time and final overall win percentage with the Steelers will tell who the best is between Cowher & Tomlin. I'm thinking Cowher will end up being a pretty safe bet (and yes I do realize Cowher is behind at the moment).

 

It's not about whose better out of the two, thoughm really. It's about people harking back to the Cowher era like we won every game 63-0. never played sloppily, never gave a first down, made the superbowl every year and had no personnel problems.

 

I see the Crow now, looking at our players and sayin to himself, "Aint no body got time for that"!

 

Even if Cowher was considering coaching again I wouldn't want him back. He didn't set the world on fire his last few years. Yeah he won the Super Bowl but he should of had more than one in 15 years. Some of the talent we had on those teams was miss used.

If we get another coach, I want an offensive minded coach. Someone that knows the Xs and Os of an offense and can develop a sound game plan around our talent or at least lobby to get people we need.

 

to this thread.

 

I dont think this is about people on here thinking Cowher never lost a game or never had a team that struggled. I think its about the feeling that Cowher's teams, while not always winning, didnt come out on the field with no passion, no discipline, no heart, no organization. I could be wrong here but I think that is why people would like him to come back.

 

Nostalgia is a powerful thing and ESPECIALLY among Steeler fans. I mean just look at most screen names on here. They are tied to the old days. We tend to remember the good. It's like when you loved a movie as a kid and you get the hankering to watch it again and you do and then you're like "this really wasn't as good as I remembered it". I LOVED Bill Cowher but I've also not forgotten that he absolutely refused to go with an elite qb and he didn't really have the killer instinct of Belichick. I bet we would have more rings if Cowher would've went after an elite qb instead of just a game manager. But who can say for sure?

 

Those of us who have been fans since the 1970's should definitely remember the bad with the good. We lived through the 1985-1991 period when the team made the playoffs just once. The younger generation has never been through that kind of extended period of ineptitude.

 

How could Cowher get an elite QB? He was a successful coach who won the division more often than he didn't...what qb did he really have a shot at getting that he passed up on? Who? It wasn't like we sat there with top ten picks? It took an ugly year for us to even have a chance to land Ben, and even then we didn't draft top 5 that year.

 

I was actually just thinking today about what qbs did Cowher pass on that we COULD have had? Also I was thinking about the fact that since we took Landry this year and some consider that a wasted pick who could we have drafted to fill a need that we have right now in the spot where we drafted him? It's one thing to call something a wasted pick but can't that statement only be definitive when you look at who was taken around them?

 

I agree. My generation is honestly spoiled. I mean Cowher was the coach when I became a fan and he was the winningest coach in the league during that period. This is almost culture shock for me.