Ford, you know well enough Cowher didn't care about the QB position 13 of the 15 years he was in Pitt. His bread and butter on offense was his rushing attack. His offense was a perennial top 5 in rushing. I think he may have had only one or two years outside of the top 10 Rushing offenses during his tenure, and he had Bettis for 10 of those years and Parker for 3 for those rushing attacks. I know we were almost last in rushing that one year with the Tommy Gun offense. His philosophy was always attacking Defense and ball control offense. He wanted game managers for QBs. Even with Ben during his first two years they lead with a ball control offense including the SB XL run. With the exception of Ray Sherman and Kevin Gilbride, all his offenses were based on the Ron Ernhardt scheme...ball control rushing with play action. So Cowher may not have had a pure franchise QB, but he sure had a franchise RB. Which is the opposite of Tomlin, has had a franchise QB, but never a franchise RB.