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
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.
found involved later love people remind seven straight weeks won
We remind them where they were seven weeks ago. That's the thing in my mind. Seven weeks ago, we found out the people who like you because it was unconditional. We're involved now and it's seven weeks later and it's all conditional. They love you because you just won seven straight games.
bowl super win
We're going to the Super Bowl to win it, not to just be there.
definitive players
We're going to have a lot of flexibility with some of the things we're doing, and the players have been very receptive. It's more definitive than things we've done in the past. The onus is being put back on the players to execute, and I think they like that.
far takes
We're going to go as far as he takes us.
drafted envision special turned
When we drafted Hines we didn't envision this. He has turned out to be a special, special player.
demands friday prioritize regular understand
When we come here, there will be a lot of demands on many of these guys. (The goal) is to come here and prioritize things and try not to get out of the routine, and understand that Wednesday, Thursday, Friday is just like a regular game.
consider fact felt guys reflective team teammates themselves
We had 10 guys that got two or more votes. I told the team that was very reflective of how they felt about their teammates and the fact that they really do consider themselves a team.
goes thoughts
We're going to let that thing unfold. I don't have any preconceived thoughts going in. I'd like to let it play out and see where it goes from there.
crowd deal dealt last
We're going to have to deal with the crowd noise. That's something that we dealt with last week, too. So it's going to be no different.
care problems ready sure taken
We're going to be very proactive, make sure if there's any problems to get them taken care of now because we want him ready to go for the first game.
We're being smart. He doesn't need a lot of reps.
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.