He has been away from the bench for 14 years. His return has been talked about several times, but now the possibility that Bill Cowher returns to coach an NFL franchise.
And what team would that be? The New York Jets.
Boomer Esiason, former quarterback and now host of “The NFL Today” and “Boomer and Gio” in New York, hinted that Cowher, your co-worker at CBS, He might be interested in the Jets head coach job.
“[Cowher] was the one who told me working with the Jets would be really cool, they could hire whoever they wanted, and he told me he loves Joe Douglas, “Esiason said.
Douglas is the general manager of the Jets and is expected to, as soon as the regular season is over, naked to Adam Gase, who has a 7-21 record as a team coach, including 0-12 in 2020.
Why might Cowher be interested in coming out of retirement and taking over the Jets?
It’s probably the fact that the team will have (if nothing unusual happens in the last weeks of the campaign) the first overall pick of the 2021 Draft, with a guy like Trevor Lawrence (Clemson) ready to shine in the NFL.
Or maybe they are the more than 80 million dollars that the New York team has to spend on the salary cap next year.
Or the young defensive with players like Quinnen Williams, Neville Hewitt, Henry Anderson o John Franklin-Myers, to name a few.
In 15 NFL seasons (1992-2006), Cowher won 8 division titles, made 10 playoff appearances and won a Super Bowl as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
His regular season record is 149-90-1 and 12-9 in Playoffs.
At 34 years old, Cowher took the place of the legendary Chuck Noll, who won four Super Bowls with the Steelers.
Cowher became the second coach in NFL history (along with Paul Brown) to brought to his team to the postseason in its first six seasons.
It was member of the Class of 2020 Hall of Fame, who will be enthroned next year and perhaps by the time his bust is unveiled in Canton he will do so as a brand new Jets coach.
Before coming to Pittsburgh, he was a special teams and defensive back coach with the Cleveland Browns (1985-88) and defensive coordinator with the Kansas City Chiefs (1989-1991).
