Cowher Admits:� He's an IDIOT

This deserves front page headlines, because a dullardly, overpaid simpleton like Billy Cowher doesn't face the truth very often.

As reported by both the Post Gazette & Trib Review, Cowher admitted his own idiocy for the stumbling, bumbling end of a drive deep in Cinci territory just before halftime.

Wrote the PG:

"Cowher accepted blame for the poor clock management near the end of the first half Sunday that cost the Steelers a shot at a touchdown. The Steelers had a first down at Cincinnati's 17 but ran just two plays, calling time out late after each, before they lined up for a field goal with eight seconds left. Todd Peterson sent the kick wide left. "That was a poor job done by myself at the end of the first half. There were two occasions where we had two plays called, a draw and a screen, which would both result with us being inbounds. We had to call time out after both of those plays. It was a very poor job of clock management on my part. A lesson learned even after 11 years of coaching in this league."

�.and the Trib:�

"Cowher took blame for allowing the clock to run down near the end of the first half of the game in Cincinnati, forcing Peterson to attempt a field goal on third down, which he missed.

The Steelers started the sequence with first-and-10 at the 12 and 57 seconds and two timeouts left. But a penalty and two plays that totaled 3 yards ran the clock down to eight seconds while the team waited for the plays to be sent in from the sideline.

"We did a poor job of clock management," Cowher said. "A very poor job done by myself. We should have had two plays called. Lesson learned, even in year 11."

Here's a coach who has been an NFL coach for 10 years.� A man who is paid a handsome sum that puts his salary in the top 5 of his peers.� A guy who has an entire staff to advise him and provide astute feedback.� And the dumbassed imbecile that he is, he cannot figure out such elementary, 7th grade tactics such as:

- calling TWO plays in a huddle

- calling for plays that are easily contained within the sidelines.�

- allowing his OC and QB to stand around and play fiddle-faddle, waiting for plays to be sent in from the sideline.

And it's not merely that Cowshit and his staff called two feeble-assed plays.� The Pittsburgh media was soft, as usual, on Cowher.� It's much more than the 2 play calls.� It's the entire sequence of slop, lethargy, and mind-wandering plodding that occurred, which is a direct reflection on preparation and training.� To wit:� El gained 25 yards on a nice play, to put the ball at the Cinci 12.� At 0:57, the Stillers snapped the ball, and threw incomplete to Mathis.� However, Ward was flagged for motion.� The refs, as usual, had to fritter around a bit to get the guilty player's number, and mark the ball, and announce the penalty.� All of this takes time -- time that Cowshit should have been using for FREE to plot THREE stabs at a TD.� Obviously, Cowher did nothing during this freebie amount of time.� Still, there were eons of time left.� At 0:52, the ball was snapped from the Cinci 17, and AZ gained a yard.� The Stillers meandered a bit, but called a TO and then got the next snap off at 0:37, and Ward gained 2 on the foolhardy, gutless screen play.� Still, all was not lost here.� It was only THIRD down, and when Ward got up off the turf after the tackle, there were still 26 seconds left.� What happened next was the abortion that is becoming the trademark of a Bill Cowshit football team.� The entire offense stood around with thumbs up their bungholes, as though they'd never seen a 3rd down play from the enemies' 14 yard line with 25 seconds remaining in a half.� They should have very easily been able to snap the ball with, say, 16 seconds on the clock and get a stab in the EZ.� Or, they could have promptly used a timeout, instead of waiting until 8 seconds remained.�

All in all, it was a total goatscrew.� And the man responsible for it -- the man who admitted his own dumbassed imbecility -- was none other than Billy Cowshit, the most over-rated, most overpaid, most dumbassed head coach in the National Football League today.� For once, at least, Cowshit admitted his own stupidity.� The first step is denial, which Cowshit has repeatedly done for 10 years.� The next step is admittance, which Cowher has finally done.� The third step, in this case, is to show Cowher's sorry ass to the door, and run him out of town on a rail as quickly as possible.� The key to solving something is identifying the problem, and we all realize that the problem is, and always has been, Billy Cowshit.�