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stillers4me
12-04-2011, 08:11 AM
The tentacles of the Steelers defense that has dominated the National Football League landscape for nearly two decades stretch from a meeting room in Three Rivers Stadium to several of the league's upper-tier teams, none more significant than the one that will visit Heinz Field today.

In 1992, shortly after he was hired to replace Chuck Noll as Steelers coach, Bill Cowher sat in a room with three other assistants and sculpted a defense that would become the scourge of the league for many years, a unit that ultimately would be responsible for four trips to the Super Bowl and two Vince Lombardi trophies in the ensuing 18 years.

In that room were defensive coordinator Dom Capers, the first person Cowher hired to his staff; Dick LeBeau, his secondary coach; and Marvin Lewis, a young linebackers coach. All three assistants would go on to become head coaches in the NFL....................


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