Michael Felger: This is not, just cause it popped in my head, coach
.Do you remember the AFC Championship game at your place when you have a 4th and 1? And BB called a timeout and called Ted Johnson over? And they had a little conversation and Johnson stopped , I guess it was Bettis? Short of the first down. Do you remember that play?
Bill Cowher: Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. And you know what? We called a timeout. How does he know what we are going to call in the huddle?
I mean, listen: They made the stop. We didnt get em blocked. And ya know, and so, in hindsight, we should have ran to the other side (laughs all around). Listen: Those arent the ones. Those arent the signals. I dont worry about that.
and here is more fun from your coach on stealing calls..
Bill Cowher: You know, let me just say this: To answer your question, no, I dont think so. I just know as a head coach, you are always looking for a competitive edge. We had people out there trying to look at signals. We had guys go to games. They would tape the signal caller and also write it down. They would take it back and match up the signals with the game film and certain defenses with certain plays that were being called, particularly the defenses being called, to see if we could come up with some kind of an alert for a signal. So, what they did with videotaping the signal caller, people do it with the people in the stands!!