Billy Cowher�s playoff history:
|
��� Game |
Venue |
�Favorite |
�Result |
Quality of play and effort, relative to opponent� (1=piss-poor, 10=great) |
�� Comments |
|
Jan. '93,
vs. Buff |
PGH |
Stillers |
LOSS,
24-3 |
3 |
A
complete and thorough assbeating in every phase of
the game. |
|
Jan. '94,
@ KC |
KC |
Chiefs,
by only a few |
LOSS,
27-24 (OT) |
4 |
Slop
& slather against a weak KC team "led" by Cowher's
father, Marty Shittenheimer.� Special teams blunder and softee defense helped pull defeat from victory. |
|
Jan. '95,
vs Clev |
PGH |
Stillers |
Win, 29-9 |
8 |
A rare,
strong all-around, intense playoff effort from a Cowher-coached team.� |
|
Jan. '95,
vs. SD AFC Title
game |
PGH |
Stillers,
by 10 |
LOSS,
17-13 |
1 |
Slop
& slather against a weak SD team.��
An absolutely horrific, embarrassing defeat. |
|
Jan. '96,
vs. Buff |
PGH |
Stillers |
Win,
40-21 |
5 |
Easy win
over an over-the-hill, past-their-prime Bills team that was in rabid
decline.� |
|
Jan. '96,
vs. Indy AFC Title
game |
PGH |
Stillers,
by at least 10 |
Win,
20-16 |
1 |
Overt
slop & slather against a weak, injury-riddled Indy team.� This game should have easily been a 17-20
point blowout.� |
|
Jan. '96,
vs. Dall (Sup Bowl) |
|
|
LOSS,
27-17 |
6 |
Insistence
on going with scatback Erric
Pegram for most of 1st half, along with a total
befuddlement of the |
|
Jan. '96,
vs. Indy |
PGH |
Stillers |
Win,
42-10 |
6 |
Easy win
over a very weak Indy team. |
|
Jan. '97,
@ NE |
NE |
Patriots,
by a few |
LOSS,
28-3 |
2 |
A
complete and thorough assbeating by Parcells and the Pats. |
|
Jan. '98,
vs. NE |
PGH |
Stillers |
Win, 7-6 |
1 |
Complete
slop & slather against a weak, injury-ravaged Pats team.� A team stink of
enormous magnitude.� |
|
Jan. '98,
vs. Denv. AFC Title
game |
PGH |
Stillers |
LOSS,
24-21 |
6 |
Cowhard ignored a hefty lead and a rumbling ground game, and
forced his young QB to make difficult passes into double & triple
coverage.�� Adjustments by Shanahan,
both since the Pgh. win over |
|
Jan. '02,
vs. Balt. |
PGH |
Stillers |
Win,
27-10 |
8 |
A rare,
strong all-around, intense playoff effort from a Cowher-coached team.� |
|
Jan. '02,
vs NE AFC Title
game |
PGH |
Stillers
by 10 |
LOSS,
24-17 |
4 |
Slop
& slather against an inferior Pats team.�
Special teams blunders; a softee
defense; and the stubborn insistence on using a fat, slow Bettis all helped
to seal the defeat.� |
|
Jan. '03,
vs. Clev |
PGH |
Stillers |
W, 36-33 |
2 |
A
pitiful, piss-poor outing against an entirely ONE-dimensional Clev offense that was using its BACKUP QB.�� Only a Cowher-coached team would allow a
weak, clearly inferior Clev team to visit Heinz
Field and run up & down the field like the Pitt marching band.� |
|
Jan. '03,
@ |
|
Titans,
by very little |
LOSS,
34-31 (OT) |
4 |
Facing an
injury-riddled Titans team, the Stillers were once again unable to stop an
entirely ONE-dimensional offense.�
Special teams, always a Cowher flaw, once again helped to seal the
defeat.� |
|
Jan. '05,
vs. Jets |
PGH |
Pit, by
9-1/2 |
Win,
20-17 (OT) |
1 |
Facing an
injury-riddled, prohibitive underdog that had just come off 2 OT games, the
Stillers played slop & slather. �The Jets were missing star DE John Abraham
and star DE Shaun Eliis missed a good chunk of the
game.� Only Doug Brien's
2 missed FGs in the last 2 minutes of the game
prevented the Jets' win in regulation.�
A team stink of enormous magnitude, highlighted by yet another spec
teams debacle in which 3 Stillers in punt coverage overran S. Moss, who then
ran 75-yards for the TD. |
Jan. �05,
vs. NE
|
PGH |
Stillers
by 3 |
LOSS,
41-27 |
5 |
Got
thoroughly whipped in every phase of the game, at HOME, against a team the
Stillers had beaten earlier in the season.�
This loss featured all of the usual ingredients of a Cowher-led
playoff failure: big plays by the
opponent; horrific turnovers; slop and slather; inability to rush for yardage
in crucial situations; poor intensity and execution. |
Totals
|
|
|
8 wins, 9 losses |
Average quality of play = 3.9 |
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