Dude. You realize Andy Reid is a high risk person with this right?

Yep. They are going to cancel them all I'm afraid.

WTF does that have to do with his entirely plausible scenario?

That's right, it all is, enjoy Arby's

Can someone tell me why the **** Bill Cowher is a HOF inductee?

He's a young guy and he retired early. Like... good for him and all... very successful coach with a successful life, but he basically stopped coaching at age 50. Doug Pederson is 52 already. He would have an excuse for retiring after 14 seasons (once/if he reaches that mark). Cowher doesn't. And he wasn't all that sensational as a player. As a coach, he didn't innovate or revolutionize anything. He was handed the Chuck Noll franchise on a silver platter. Didn't have to fight the stigma of losing on his new team at all. Didn't have to look over his shoulder for his job. Was given every resource to succeed.

Went to two Super Bowls spaced many years apart. Won one of them. That's nice and all, but people were bitching at Andy up until this year for never winning the big one, and some people had the audacity to claim he didn't even deserve the HOF if he didn't win it with KC. And that's ****ing bullshit. Cowher has ONE championship and far less coaching time and quit his career early when he reached the top. He's had a cushy desk job for years.

In my opinion, if you're going to make the HOF as a coach, you better have some ACTUAL longevity as a coach. Don't win a Super Bowl and then retire early. That's not a guy who LOVES football the way Andy Reid or Bill Belichick do. Cowher is a guy who's pretty good at it, likes it pretty well, but is content to sit on his money and not put in the grind once he reaches the top.

If you're a coach, you need to either win multiple rings, innovate something about the game (guy didn't do shit in that department), and/or coach until you can't walk anymore.

And if you're not going to do any of that, at least BUILD your own dynasty. If Cowher had won a single ring for the Detroit Lions, THEN I'd be impressed. But he didn't. He is responsible for 1 of the 6 Steelers championships. Whoop de ****ing doo.

He did what really matters, joined the tv network as a talking head. That keeps his face attached to the game. Name recognition. We must remember who decides who gets in the HOF.

^ THIS!!!!!!!! ^

This is one of the most depressing things I have ever read :(

Cowher’s candidacy probably was helped by the fact he works in the media.

Seems like there have been several border line (at best) HOF inductees who benefited from working in the media... Tony Dungy, Jerome Bettis and Terrell Davis come to mind.

The training camp heroes are taking one for the team.