Bill Cowher’s new career
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Former head coach Bill Cowher has a new job.
“The Jaw,” or “Face,” as he was known to some close to him, has joined the CBS cast as a gameday analyst. He joins a group full of former All-Pro players, including Dan Marino, Shannon Sharpe, Phil Simms and Boomer Esiason, as well as host James Brown.
The pairing of the coach and CBS could make for an interesting inter-network rivalry: former Steelers running back Jerome Bettis works as an analyst for NBC, and in his first telecast painted a less-than-pretty picture of Bill Cowher, while Cowher was still coaching the Steelers.
The signing ends any remaining speculation that he will join an NFL team for the 2007 season in any capacity — although it was unlikely anyway, as the Rooneys probably would not have given him permission to do so. He remains under contract with the Steelers until the end of the upcoming season.
Cowher also hinted that he may not return to coaching at any level in the NFL for at least several years, saying, “I didn’t get out of it to get back into it,” referring to filling a coaching vacancy somewhere in the league. He seems to genuinely relish the new opportunity, which will allow him to spend more time with his family — his primary reason for retiring. He plans to commute from his new home in Raleigh, N.C. to the CBS studios in New York each weekend.
He also commented that he will not have any trouble critiquing the Steelers, because he would have done the same thing if he was still the head coach. That’s news to me, because it sure didn’t seem like he did much talking or critiquing at all in 2006.
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