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Nice piece on Chuck Noll

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Smasher_Sloan, Jan 22, 2009.

  1. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    OH OZ WHY DID YOU HURT ME SO?!

    *thumbs up*
     
  2. Trey Beamon

    Trey Beamon Active Member

    No, he's just a hateful bastard in general. :D
     
  3. cyclingwriter

    cyclingwriter Active Member

    For some reason, there was a feeling in the 1970s that anyone could have won with that team. I'm not saying that is right, but that feeling did exist. He never won a coach of the year award -- even in the late 1980s when he took some really bad teams to winning records.

    I think that is what the writer was referring too, not that she felt he wasn't a good coach
     
  4. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    That could be, which is ridiculous given the role he played in building those teams and developing those players.
     
  5. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    Cowher inherited mediocre to shit talent from Noll and did more than OK with it.
     
  6. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    I was talking about what he did in the '70s. Noll probably should have hung 'em up four or five years before he finally retired.
     
  7. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    Getting the Brister-led Steelers within a breath of the AFC Championship was his greatest coaching job. He should have said bye-bye after that.
     
  8. Smasher_Sloan

    Smasher_Sloan Active Member

    On the list of reasons you're a bad man, that isn't even on the top 11,000.
     
  9. Smasher_Sloan

    Smasher_Sloan Active Member

    Pardon? Among the inherited mediocre to shits were Rod Woodson and Dermontti Dawson, who are up for the Hall of Fame vote this week.

    He also inherited Gary Anderson, Barry Foster, Eric Green, Hardy Nickerson, Carnell Lake, David Little, John Jackson and Tunch Ilkin. And, yes, Neil O'Donnell.

    They weren't SB favorites but the cupboard wasn't exactly bare, either.
     
  10. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    1992 Pittsburgh Steelers Draft
    1. Searcy
    2. Kirkland
    3. Steed
    8. Perry

    Shit, Cowher hit the ground running.

    http://www.footballdb.com/teams/pittsburgh-steelers/roster/1992

    Umm, that team had some talent.

    Lake, Dawson, Foster, Hasilrig, Ilkin, Jackson, Johnson, Lloyd, Love, Nickerson and Woodson were not scrubs.
     
  11. indiansnetwork

    indiansnetwork Active Member

    Great coaches can't come from cheating players. Cheating players can come from great coaches but then again those cheating players maybe were great because of their cheating coach.
     
  12. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    When did we start talking about the Patriots?
     
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