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
effect extra football game involved playing speed weather
The extra day won't have any effect on it. We're going to have to weather the flurry that will be involved with the emotions, the speed of the game and playing a high-quality football team.
england last late normal stick
We'll stick to our normal schedule, a lot like (the) New England (Patriots) did last week. We'll get out there late Saturday, and we'll play Sunday. I don't think it will have much of an effect.
age mature
We have a young quarterback who didn't play young today. . . . He's much more mature than his age would indicate.
became city pirates pittsburgh team winning
What the team did in the 1970s was kind of put Pittsburgh on the map. It became a city of champions, and you had the Pirates winning and the Penguins winning.
We want to be where they are. When you've done what they've done, (you're) the measuring stick.
ego healthy starts
We have a very healthy organization. It starts at the top. There's no ego involved. We try to get things done as a team.
against guys literally played respect team tremendous
We have not played against him a lot. But I have tremendous respect for the guy. He's one of those guys who can literally will a team to victory.
time
We haven't had time to think about that (pressure).
ben bit charlie game passing position rhythm
The quarterback position has been a little bit of a merry-go-round; we've had Charlie in there, Tommy in there, we've had Ben in there ... and, consequently, our passing game has suffered. There hasn't been that rhythm and being in sync.
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.
running rush situation
With the situation we have at running back, we don't have to rush to get him back,
afternoon ahead sunday team worry worrying
We know better than that. Ahead is going to be there; you just worry about Houston. That's the only team we are worrying about. I'm not worrying about anything more than Sunday afternoon at one o'clock.