Jerome Bettis has a history of declaring what Bill Cowher will do before he does it.
That’s why Bettis’ strong recent comments that Cowher was waiting for the Giants job to open up carried some weight. Cowher is now trying to downplay the story without completely denying it.
“I haven’t talked to Jerome Bettis in two years,” Cowher told the New York Daily News. “I’ll leave it at that.”
Asked how Bettis would get such an idea, Cowher stuck by his original answer. “I think that answers your question.”
That Cowher and Bettis haven’t spoken doesn’t really change Bettis’ claims. The former Steelers running back said that Cowher had the inside track on the Giants job two years ago before Tom Coughlin won the Super Bowl. Cowher knows the Maras well.
Cowher also dismissed what Bettis said about his retirement in 2006 and we know how that turned out.