Hines Ward played for just two head coaches in an NFL career that spanned from 1998 to 2011. Which means those guys, Bill Cowher and Mike Tomlin, were doing something right. And now that Ward himself is a head coach, in charge of the XFL San Antonio Brahmas, he’s not just following their model. He’s speaking it.
In a feature piece from Go Erie that covered an autograph signing with Jack Ham, Jerome Bettis, and Ward in attendance, Ward briefly talked about his coaching career and how he’s integrated some of the Cowher/Tomlin language into it.