The Bill Cowher question resurfaces.

second place in the division with the Browns, that’s ok with me

I respect The Chin, and I don’t want him in our division if he’s not working with the Steelers. I say he should go to the Lions. Safe, out of our way (unless we meet in the SB, as unlikely as that is. I mean, it IS the Lions…).

You heard it here on BTSC first, from my RE. But I guess it’s a plausible scenario.

You think Favre wearing purple makes him a traitor? Cowher wearing Poo colored attire and trying to stop the Steelers takes that to a whole new level. No thank you sir. No thank you.

I really doubt he wants to go back north. Carolina or Washington maybe. Though he would have to get past Dan Snyder in Washington and he “ian’t no” Dan Rooney. I think Carolina is the most logical unless some wild card comes in with a really sweet package deal.

I will lose some respect for him.

I think he’ll be the Panthers HC next year. Fox isn’t getting the job done there, and Cowher lives in Raleigh.

I like Cowher, but giving him total control would just another stupid decision by Randy Lerner. Very few situations where the coach has final say on personnel have worked and those that have, e.g., Jimmy Johnson and to a lesser degree Mike Holmgren, have worked because those individuals performed so exceptionally on the personnel end. I just don’t see that Cowher’s strength was in player evaluation. Give him a roster that should be .500 on paper and he’d squeeze ten or eleven wins out of that group and he’d have the fanbase going crazy. But that won’t happen in Cleveland next year or, if Cowher is GM also, any other year.

Would I be offended if he was the Browns coach? Nope. (although primarily because, despite Cowher being one hell of a head coach, I think Tomlin can coach circles around him).

This might just be a rumor. Regardless, I think Cowher should steer clear of Cleveland. Dan Rooney is the guy who enabled Cowher to succeed through his patient and steady leadership in the front office. If Cowher’s actually thinking of returning to the sidelines, he would be wise to pick a team with top-notch management. Otherwise, he might find that another Super Bowl is elusive.

But Pola-Gona-Maul-U (or anyone else), are you a regular listener of Tunch and Wolf?

I like them when they get in to more of the technical details of the game, but I have to change stations when Wolf starts yammering endlessly about food or words he just made up or other silliness. It’s too much of a John Madden-like caricature for me.

He is in the first year of a four-year, $12 million contract that the Browns would have to eat if they fired him. The Browns still owe $20 million to their former GM and head coach (Romeo, wherefore art thou?), so I doubt they want to eat another big contract. The rumor is that Kolkinis, the Browns GM, was fired “for cause” so they won’t have to pay him.