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Originally Posted by KCTitus
Fair enough...Cowher does not excite me, but I figure Ive got to give Pioli some benefit of the doubt for now.
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To me, Cowher makes sense because if you want a big, strong, tough football team like Pioli mentioned, that's what Cowher brings to the table, along with a Super Bowl ring, so he brings the success that these guys who are used to losing can immediately buy into and work hard on. He also will weed out the losers. In short, he's got experience putting together a tough football team and he can instill that toughness and the Pittsburgh profile that Hunt wants better than anyone. And again, he always brings in outstanding assistants on his staff. So he could coach here 6-7 years, bring this team back to relevance if not a Super Bowl, and then if that model is built and he wants to move on, you can go and hire your Tomlin or promote one of his top assistants like Wisenhunt and carry on.
Of course, that's all ideal. Probably won't happen that way. Still, the fact that they haven't dismissed Herm makes me wonder if Pioli isn't just trying in the background to see if he can get someone like Cowher or Rat to take the job, otherwise he sticks with Herm for another year. It otherwise is making no sense that Herm is still here unless he's plan C. If Clark is paying for the top GM candidate in the league, why would he not want to pay one of the top coaching names in the league? He and Pioli may have already decided that if they get rid of Herm, it'll only be for one of the big name retreads...