Shula, Brown, Lombardi, Walsh.
Shula
Halas
Lombardi
Walsh
Solid list. But, you don’t think the NFL produced any great coaches after Shula retired? :)
Since SHULA retired?Solid list. But, you don’t think the NFL produced any great coaches after Shula retired? :)
You're right about Bill Walsh. He was one of the greatest tacticians the game every saw. When he was alive, all you had to do was ask him and he'd tell you such.Brown
Halas
Lombardi
Shula
Honorable mention to Bill Walsh. Probably the greatest tactician I've ever personally seen coach a football game.
You're right about Bill Walsh. He was one of the greatest tacticians the game every saw. When he was alive, all you had to do was ask him and he'd tell you such.
I remember that after he retired and he would call games, inevitably once or thrice a game, he'd say about how "we did the same thing in San Francisco". After a while, it was like, it's OK, Bill, we know you're a former coach and you invented the sunrise, but give it a rest.
Four is too few but in no particular order:
- Paul Brown
- George Halas
- Don Shula
- Bill Belichick
I don’t know why Lombardi gets automatically put at the top of every list. He didn’t coach that long. Yes he won a lot. You know what? Joe Gibbs in his first stint w Washington accomplished just about as much as Lombardi and in an era w more teams etc. 5 Title games, 4 SBs, 3 SB wins w 3 different QBs, invented the triple TE set (to block Lawerence Taylor) and the trips formation. Man was an innovator and adapted to the talent he had. If you add another four spots to Mt Rushmore I put:
Lombardi
Gibbs
Walsh
Landry
Then Noll, John Harbaugh, Andy Reíd, Chuck Knox, Dick Vermeil, Marty Shottenfeffer, Bill Parcels (who never won anything without Belichick on his staff by the way), Dan Reeves, and I’m sure I’m forgetting some.
Honorable mention - Adam Gase, Joe Philbin