Larry On The Job

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Larry On The Job: The NFL Today

Former Steelers Head Coach Bill Cowher is now halfway through his first season as an NFL analyst on the "NFL Today" on CBS.

We sent KDKA Radio's Larry Richert to New York for this a special edition of Larry On-The-Job with Bill Cowher.

Like his old job, this new gig still requires team work and coordination like a Saturday production meeting to fine tune the broadcast.

"They think that we just show up on Sunday, have a good time and just do it," said James Brown, the NFL Today's host.  "You know being in the business, you don't do that!"

So how is the new guy fitting in?

"Coach Cowher's wonderful," said Brown.  "To be honest with you, the two guys who are beating up on him the most... Shannon Sharpe and Boomer Esiason."

"I don't know.  Mike Tomlin came out of nowhere and turned that whole program around," joked Esiason.  "They weren't even a playoff team last year!"

"We like to call it healthy conversation," said Sharpe.

"With Coach Cowher obviously being an authority figure in Pittsburgh for all those years, now he comes in, if you will, he's a rookie being treated like one because the guys come at him," said Brown.  "But he knows how to take it because he played the game and coached the game."

So what does fellow Pittsburgher Dan Marino think?

"He always says that we think we know football but we really don't know that he knows football," quipped Marino.

It's clear that coach likes working with Marino too.

"We have all the answers," said Cowher.  "Football doesn't have to go any further than the two of us out of Western Pennsylvania!"

"I love the job I really do," added Cowher.  "I said this before Larry as you are going to see being around here. You're still a big part of the National Football League. You get all inside info, making comments, gotta study it… Saturday afternoon with this production meeting through Sunday.   But on Monday, I'm back in North Carolina back in Raleigh taking my daughter to school."

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