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Cowher is lining up assistant coaches


Kevin Greene

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Adam Schefter of ESPN reported it last week, and Steve Wyche of NFL.com echoes it today: Former Steelers coach Bill Cowher has been making calls in the hopes of putting together a coaching staff.

Possible additions, in our view, include offensive coordinator Chan Gailey, who parlayed his time with Cowher in the 1990s into the Cowboys' head-coaching job. After Cowher resigned from the Steelers after the 2006 season, wearing his finest Cliff Huxtable throwback sweater, Cowher recommended not Ken Whisenhunt nor Russ Grimm but Gailey to be Cowher's Steel City successor.

Defensively, it'll be interesting to see whether Steelers defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau chooses to leave the Steelers and reunite with Cowher. Last year, there were rumors that LeBeau was thinking about retirement. Perhaps LeBeau, who has won two Super Bowls in Pittsburgh and who is five weeks away from a near-certain election to the Hall of Fame, is looking for a new challenge.

In past years, Cowher has made similar calls to round up men he'd take with him to a new job, including Steelers director of football operations Kevin Colbert and Steelers director of business operations Omar Khan. It's unknown whether Colbert and/or Khan have gotten the call this time around.

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