Bengals Add Rod Woodson To Their Steelers Legends Coaching Intern Group

by Josh Kirkendall on Jun 15, 2010 12:28 PM EDT

Sometimes it's weird. The Bengals brought in a great center as a coaching intern. The weird part? It was Steelers great Dermontti Dawson. Truth be known, it's a good thing, while he works with Kyle Cook. Why not have the Bengals young center learn from one of the game's best while he played? Former Steelers player or not, Cook will become better for it. And that's kind of important.

But the Bengals aren't finished with former Steelers greats coming on as intern coaches. As per C Trent's tweet the Bengals brought "Steelers legend, Rod Woodson, as a coaching intern." Woodson was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on January 31, 2009 -- the 18th Steeler enshrined. Woodson has recently been working in part with the NFL Network. Maybe he can help our safeties turn from ass-kicking head hunters to an adequate group of center-fielders.

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another fabulous, underrated move imo, expert mentorship and additional perspective are more than welcome…. the more the merrier

truth be told, we’ve gotten more love from Rod Woodson than Boomer Esiason or Solomon Wilcots in the past few months. See for yourself:

skip up to 2:04 in this one

and in this one, with the continued Raven love from Muhs

3 yards and a pile of dust

by Hudepohl Dey on Jun 15, 2010 12:46 PM EDT reply actions

We've got more love from Rod than Boomer b/c,

Boomer can’t stand the sight of Mikey Boy. He actually (I would say hate but thats too light of a word) despises him to the point that he can’t say his name. Although he loves the Bengals as a franchise b/c of Paul Brown, he rather see Mike Brown fail.
He has made comments about MB and how things will never change with him in power. Talk about crying over spilled milk…. It’s been a long time ago Boomer. Looks like things are changing, so give the credit to Marvin and Zimmer and jump on the wagon..

by WHYUS!! on Jun 15, 2010 3:33 PM EDT up reply actions

As the guys in the Guiness beer commercials said...

“BRILLIANT!”

by Anthony Cosenza on Jun 15, 2010 2:08 PM EDT reply actions

siiiiiiick.

by 80%OFTHETIMEIMRIGHTEVERYTIME on Jun 15, 2010 5:29 PM EDT reply actions

I Love It

Yikes, first Dermontti Dawson and now Woodson in stripes. Steeler Nation must be having a conniption.

by Who dey in LA on Jun 16, 2010 9:47 AM EDT reply actions

They don't all have to be former squeelers

But I’ll welcome them with open arms any time..
It could be Jerry Rice as a receivers coach and I would be just as happy or who knows? Issac Curtis maybe?
In any event it’s nice to have HOF players come in to teach our young guys how to do the job just that much better.. But keep in mind fans.. Just because someone is in the Hall doesn’t always equate to great coaching talent.
Keep in mind Mike Zimmer never played a day in the NFL and his coaching creds aren’t exactly chopped liver. I’d rather have someone who knows how to coach any day over a guy with great HOF creds.
It’s still nice to have Woodson around in case he can coach and I suspect he can.

by Yeah-Yeah on Jun 16, 2010 1:58 PM EDT reply actions