Bill Cowher, one would hope, knows a little something about the Pittsburgh Steelers. After all, he spent 15 years coaching them, brought them to two Super Bowls and helped them win their first since the 1979 season when they got over the hump with a second-year Ben Roethlisberger in 2005.
Cowher’s teams toiled away with a parade of mediocrity at quarterback, with brief highlights from the likes of Neil O’Donnell and Kordell Stewart, but it’s not, I think, a great coincidence that Roethlisberger’s emergence coincided with a new era of quality football in Pittsburgh, which has, despite the protestations of the doubters, continued to this day.