Greatest NFL Head Coach All Time

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Paul Brown 7 Championships 4 2nd place finishes

The 5 direct assistant coaches under Brown to be hired as Head Coach

Don Shula - 2 SB wins and 4 SB losses
Blanton Collier - 1 Championship 1 2nd place finish
Weeb Ewbank - 2 Championships 1 SB win
Bill Walsh - 3 SB wins
Chuck Nolll - 4 SB wins
Total - 10 SB wins, 3 Championships, 5 SB losses, 1 Championship loss.

The assistants to this group to receive head coaches :
Arnsparger, R. Perkins, C. Knox, B. Ryan, M. Holmgren, J. Fox, T. Dungy.
2 SB

The next wave to reach head coaches :
M. Shottenheimer, B. Parcells, J. Fisher, J. Gruden, A. Reid, L. Smith, M. Tomlin
4 SB wins multiple SB losses

The last wave to receive head coaches :
B. Cowher, Bill Belichek, T. Coughin.
8 Super Bowl wins

It's great to teach the players to win Titles, but it's even more impressive to teach assistants how to continue to be Champions.

24 Super Bowl Titles & 3 Championships for his Coaching Tree !

[asujbl]

Hue Jackson

[jasonm2121]

This board has become Max Kellerman if he collected cards.

[asujbl]

Originally Posted by jasonm2121

This board has become Max Kellerman if he collected cards.

#truthbomb

[coltsnsox07]

Wow it was close but I voted for Paul Brown, so many great names on that list.

Pretty sure the average age of the people in this poll must be 25, they never saw any of the names on the list other than the guy who starts every season 6-0 or 5-1 because of the complete shite of a division that the AFC East is..

[Siberian13]

[RogerGodahell]

Brian Belichick is nothing without Tom Brady. He couldn't even win a Super Bowl in Cleveland.

[Ray27Ray52]

Originally Posted by coltsnsox07

Wow it was close but I voted for Paul Brown, so many great names on that list.

Pretty sure the average age of the people in this poll must be 25, they never saw any of the names on the list other than the guy who starts every season 6-0 or 5-1 because of the complete shite of a division that the AFC East is..

I agonized over leaving Parcells, Madden, and a couple of others off the list but I managed to squeeze Brian Belichick in there. Nice job rayray!

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Originally Posted by BostonNut

Right...1960 until 2001 was a barrel of fun.

Move the date back a couple years while adding nearly two decades. As a Lions fan in winning just O N E playoff game in over 60 seasons, that is a all expenses paid spring break trip to Florida for a month as a college student.

Pats did well in the AFL and then 2 SB losses.

The only barrel Lions fans received was the one being removed from the outhouse!

[49erRCCollector]

Total homer vote: Bill Walsh. Innovative on everything from plays to how to run a franchise. Everyone who came after followed this blueprint.

Paul Brown was also exceptional.

[boston12]

Rather shocked Bill's son made the list ahead of him. I would stay Steve Belichick is actually better then Brian. But either way all 3 are better then Shula

[Sackcitychiefs]

Hank Stram

[Ferg1945]

If Jerry Jones wasn't a big ass ego maniac... Jimmy Johnson would have 4 possibly 5 rings in the same timeframe as Noll.

[blackandgold]

To me there’s really no debate Billichek is the Goat of all Coaches in Football

[JMarchand1981]

Originally Posted by Ray27Ray52

Stop yelling at each other. What would Brian Belichick think of this behavior?

Brian would have us all runnings laps and then a steel cage death match. Or something.

[titletowncards]

I respect the heck out of Belichick, but I vote Lombardi. Bart Starr, Paul Hornung and a few other eventual HOF's were already on the team and the team was doing nothing. He turned them into winners immediately. Within 2 years they were in the NFL Championship game, the only Championship Game he would ever lose. Never had a losing season, 5 Championships in 7 years and the 2 first Super Bowls. When he left the Packers into a dumpster fire that lasted 2 decades. In his final season he coached an underachieving Redskins team before he died to a winning record and a 7-5-2 record. If he would have lived longer the Redskins may have been winning Championships as well.

[Bassplayah101]

Billichick has been a part of 23% of all superbowls ever played.

Let that sink in..

Lombardi, knoll, Parcells, and every other coach mentioned in this thread all bow at the alter of Bill.



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[49erRCCollector]

Originally Posted by Bassplayah101

Billichick has been a part of 23% of all superbowls ever played.

Let that sink in..

Lombardi, knoll, Parcells, and every other coach mentioned in this thread all bow at the alter of Bill.



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I assume you’re including the Parcells-coached Giants in that stat? If so the Bellichick owes a debt to Parcells, and what he created. Coaches learn from other coaches. Bellichick is great but more likely he would point you to coaches of the past that he learned from.

[BostonNut]

Originally Posted by 49erRCCollector

I assume you’re including the Parcells-coached Giants in that stat? If so the Bellichick owes a debt to Parcells, and what he created. Coaches learn from other coaches. Bellichick is great but more likely he would point you to coaches of the past that he learned from.

So the very first football coach ever is the GOAT?

[oplum29]

first of all, everybody on that list is amazing.

secondly, i'm a 49ers fan, so i'm going to be a little biased, and i voted for Bill Walsh.

Considering what he did not only for the team, but how he changed the game of pro football with the West Coast Offense. He learned under Paul Brown, then took a crappy football team and in three seasons, beat the Dallas Cowboys, which was huge, and won a Super Bowl.

He was money on draft picks like Montana in the third round, Clark in the 10th round, trading for Keena Turner during the draft, the 1981 rookie class with Lott, Hicks, and Carlton Williams; Jerry Rice after watching highlights of him on TV, Roger Craig, Haley, Romanowski, Rathman, John Taylor, Brent Jones, Steve Wallace, Tim McKeyer, etc. Then making the trade for a player like Steve Young, which only continued their run into the 90s.

Then he retires too soon, and the 49ers end up winning their 4th title with his team. And the next season, lost in the NFC title game, and over the course of the next four-five years, with still a good core of players from his tenure, go on to appear in three more title games and win a 5th Super Bowl with his former DC as the head coach.

Until Belichick and the Patriots showed up, no NFL franchise had a two decade run the way the 49ers did, and it started with Walsh.

Four playoff appearances between 1949 and 1978. When Walsh showed up, 7 in 10 years and 3 SBs.

And not only that, think about the coaching tree that came out of the Bill Walsh 49ers.



and on top of that, again, before Brady, many football fans, experts, talking heads, whatever- believed the greatest QB and WR in NFL history were Montana and Rice, both 49ers, both drafted by Bill Walsh.

[corndog]

Rich Kotite needs some love.

[CC71]

Originally Posted by oplum29

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and sean mcvay was on gruden's staff in tampa bay so there's another one under the walsh tree

[blackandgold]

Originally Posted by oplum29

first of all, everybody on that list is amazing.

secondly, i'm a 49ers fan, so i'm going to be a little biased, and i voted for Bill Walsh.

Considering what he did not only for the team, but how he changed the game of pro football with the West Coast Offense. He learned under Paul Brown, then took a crappy football team and in three seasons, beat the Dallas Cowboys, which was huge, and won a Super Bowl.

He was money on draft picks like Montana in the third round, Clark in the 10th round, trading for Keena Turner during the draft, the 1981 rookie class with Lott, Hicks, and Carlton Williams; Jerry Rice after watching highlights of him on TV, Roger Craig, Haley, Romanowski, Rathman, John Taylor, Brent Jones, Steve Wallace, Tim McKeyer, etc. Then making the trade for a player like Steve Young, which only continued their run into the 90s.

Then he retires too soon, and the 49ers end up winning their 4th title with his team. And the next season, lost in the NFC title game, and over the course of the next four-five years, with still a good core of players from his tenure, go on to appear in three more title games and win a 5th Super Bowl with his former DC as the head coach.

Until Belichick and the Patriots showed up, no NFL franchise had a two decade run the way the 49ers did, and it started with Walsh.

Four playoff appearances between 1949 and 1978. When Walsh showed up, 7 in 10 years and 3 SBs.

And not only that, think about the coaching tree that came out of the Bill Walsh 49ers.



and on top of that, again, before Brady, many football fans, experts, talking heads, whatever- believed the greatest QB and WR in NFL history were Montana and Rice, both 49ers, both drafted by Bill Walsh.

And Bill Billichek has had far more success with basically only 1 main stay player in Brady and nowhere near the talent that Walsh had on his teams Walsh was a great coach but he hasn’t been to 11 superbowls

[Josh611]

I’m an idiot and clicked the wrong name

Only one of these guys has the Super Bowl named after them.

[CC71]

Originally Posted by blackandgold

And Bill Billichek has had far more success with basically only 1 main stay player in Brady and nowhere near the talent that Walsh had on his teams Walsh was a great coach but he hasn’t been to 11 superbowls

if bill walsh didn't retire after super bowl 23, who knows how many more he could've won. they won super bowl 24 with george siefert. if walsh stayed he probably would've had at least 5