Do. Not. Want. Is it the limit of the average fan's imagination to try and resell yesterday's greatness? Cowher has been out of coaching for seven-years. He is irrelevant to today's game. When he was coaching the Steelers, he was one of the best, if not they best coach in the NFL consistently and most of his coaching was done without anything approaching a franchise quarterback, people forget that. He wasn't Belichick with Brady, or Walsh with Montana or Young, he wasn't even Parcells with Phil Simms. This guy was going to conference championship games consistently with Kordell Stewart, Neil O'Donnell and Mike Tomczak as his quarterbacks. That's impressive, it's also no longer relevant. If it needs to be said again, let me say it, retread coaches who have won Super Bowls elsewhere do not win them with new teams. Mike Shanahan is on the verge of getting axed for essentially stealing money from the Redskins, he couldn't recapture his Denver magic because the organization he went to is not the same, he's not the same, the game is not the same.
I give Cowher all the credit in the world for what he did throughout his career, I think some people underestimate his greatness, but he'd be just another PR stunt for this team, another star****er hire that could very well turn out like Parcells or Shanahan. Owners often forget that coaching success is often a perfect storm of factors that coincide at one magical moment. Cowher, even if he possessed the passion and the competence at this point of his career, is he bringing a Bruce Arians and Dick LeBeau with him? Is he bringing a Kevin Colbert and that front office with him? Cowher always enjoyed superior coaching staffs and arguably one of the 2 or 3 best front offices in the NFL consistently. They would lose player after player to free agency and just maintain their level of excellence. That isn't happening here. This ownership doesn't have the credibility. If you couldn't pull a Jeff Fisher, whose only option was the talentless Rams, then you are not as high up the desirability scale as some of us may wish to believe.
This organization isn't what it used to be. The perception of this organization in the popular consciousness isn't what it used to be. There was the whiff of greatness about this team even long after it had actually won anything, but that's gone now. We appear more like the Saints, Falcons or Bucs of the 70s, 80s and 90s, just dysfunctional losers with imbecilic ownership. If this team ever rises from its self-induced coma, it will be because we get lucky hiring a dynamic GM and equally brilliant coach, that's the only way it happens and we're seeing how hard that is to do.
