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Anybody paying attention to this season knows he quit after last year.

Cowher didn't wreck Ben's motorbike or infect his appendix.

Cowher didn't make Polamalu's shoulder trouble all year.

Cowher didn't fumble the first Bengal game away on a punt.

Cowher did take a 2-6 team and keep their fire alive, resulting in a 6-2 second half. Had the Steelers been able to win one more game (say the turnover-laden Raider game or the OT game against Atlanta) they would be in the playoffs. And no one would be talking about how Cowher "quit."

I could point to so many mistakes Cowher has made, whether it be his eternal and thick-headed refusal to bench veterans who are not performing, his Herm Edwards-like clock mismanagement, the way he kept Duce Staley on the roster despite his inability to play any longer while cutting their best special teams tackler only to watch their punt and kick coverage break down every game. I count he lost 4 games himself this year. But lets focus on the 2 you mention. Cowher didn't fumble the first Bengal game away on a punt.

Um, NOBODY who watches the Steelers blames that fumble on Coclough. Anybody who watched any Steelers game was aware that Ricardo Coclough couldn't field punts. He circled under them like a 10 year old trying to catch a fly ball, and then attempted to catch them overhand by trapping the ball against his face. Pittsburgh fans were mystified as to how he was in punt coverage in practice since he couldn't catch. Then why did Cowher have him feilding punts? EVERYONE knew that fumble was coming, except Cowher.

Had the Steelers been able to win one more game (say the turnover-laden Raider game or the OT game against Atlanta) they would be in the playoffs.

A game Cowher lost by burning a timeout with 30 seconds left and the clock stopped to "ice the kicker" (Morton Andersen even!!), then letting time run out when they were in field goal range and couldn't stop the clock. He also wasted a timeout by challenging a short TD run by Warrick Dunn in the first half that he was obviously wrong on. His clock mismanagement lost that game.