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DALLAS -- When Kevin Greene joined the Pittsburgh Steelers as a linebacker in 1993, he often wondered what went on at the evening meetings where head coach Bill Cowher plotted defensive strategy with Dom Capers, his defensive coordinator, secondary coach Dick LeBeau and linebackers coach Marvin Lewis.
"I would have loved to have been in there,'' says Greene, whose 160 sacks in 15 seasons are third on the NFL's career sack list and who got into coaching last season as Green Bay's linebackers coach. "All that brainstorming, all that brainpower. All those defensive schemes. 'If we blitz, who do we put here? Who do we put there?' Just great defensive minds.''
Some of the products of those sessions nearly two decades ago will be on display at Cowboys Stadium Sunday when the Packers play the Steelers in the Super Bowl. Capers is Green Bay's defensive coordinator, LeBeau holds that job for the Steelers and the aggressive 3-4 defenses they play are the products of those evening sessions and many others.
Capers and LeBeau, both "small-town Ohio boys'' (as Capers puts it) have been friends for years and were roommates in training camp when they coached together with Pittsburgh.
Both have been NFL head coaches -- Capers got expansion Carolina to the NFC title game in his second season and later coached Houston; LeBeau had three seasons with Cincinnati, where Lewis coaches now. But LeBeau and Capers are known chiefly for their defensive innovations and their teams finished this season 1-2 in points allowed -- Pittsburgh gave up 232 and Green Bay 240.
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