Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Dyche. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. One guest on this episode, if you're an NFL fan, he does not need an introduction,

though I will give him one anyway. Bill Cowher, is one of the studio analysts for the NFL today on CBS,

their pregame show that has been running for most of our lifetimes. They are celebrating, in fact,

their 50th anniversary of that show on september 21st and

they have a lot of things that they will uh be doing that sort of uh has a nostalgia plate to it so

that should be an awesome show on september 21st bill cower has been an analyst for cbs for the last

18 years of course prior to that was the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers for 15 years, Super Bowl titles, etc.

And with that, I bring back Bill Cowher. Bill, welcome to the sports media podcast.

Good to talk to you, Richard, as always.

You've been in this podcast as much as I've been in CBS.

You've been doing it for a long time as well.

It feels like that. All right, Bill, here. I want to start with this. Okay. We'll go behind the scenes a little bit. My producer, Patrick Antonetti, told me that you had signed on to this podcast about 28 minutes or so before the start of the podcast. He noted that. He's like, once a coach, always a coach.

He's clearly like preparing, making sure like the line is set up and all that other stuff.

So I just wanted to just note that bill. So again, even though you're now in broadcasting,

it never goes away, right? Preparation, being on time, being early.

Not, not at all. Every one of our production meetings, when we have them, I will be five minutes

early. And if anybody's late, it's probably a player. And so I just said, remember, players or

players, coaches or coaches, if you're five minutes early, you're right on time. I love that.

Was it you or Tom Coughlin, who? No, I was Tom Coughlin. I was, no, I was Tom. I, I didn't require when to be there 10 minutes or all or five minutes around, but if the meeting started at 9 o'clock, the meeting started at 9 o'clock, it did not start at 9.01. So what, so 9 o'clock was it was the time frame. I love that. All right, this is, I mentioned at the top. This is now your 18th year as an analyst for the NFL today. You started. Actually, actually, Richard, actually, Richard's my 19th year. My bad. Okay. I apologize for that. Okay. Thank you for the correction. The reason I bring that up is I remember when you first started, like we're talking years. Every single year people

would ask you, Bill, you're going to coach again, what's your thought about coaching,

coaching. Was there a point when that stopped? Or does it, I mean, I can't believe it would still

exist today. But like, was there a point in time after X amount of years where you no longer

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