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Greatest NFL head coach ever......

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1 Parcells
2 Lombardi
3 Halas
4 Walsh
5 Jimmy Johnson
6 Bill Cowher
7 Shula
8 Chuck Knoll
9 Hank Stramm
10 Tom Landry
 
Tom Landry for sure, anyone who says differently is crazy, he is by far the best coach.


I wouldn't put him up there but SI ranks Parcells as #6 of all time.
 
1 Gibbs
2 Lombardi
3. Belichick
4. Madden
5. Shula
6. Walsh
7. Cowher
8. Landry
9. Parcells
10.... Jimmy Johnson?
 
Have yall looked at who had Bellecheck (sp?) as a coordinator when he won a super bowl (maybe 2, too lazy to check)? Thats tuna. I am a cowboys fan, not pats but it makes me wonder if tuna won those trophies or if his staff did.
 
Originally posted by: Jadow
1 Parcells
2 Lombardi
3 Halas
4 Walsh
5 Jimmy Johnson
6 Bill Cowher
7 Shula
8 Chuck Knoll
9 Hank Stramm
10 Tom Landry
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Finally... A Chuck Knoll sighting!!! Chuck knoll built the scariest team of the 70's and is probably the reason John Madden only won one SB.

No way Bill Cowher is on that list.

In no particular order...

Bill Walsh - He invented the offense that half the league still uses. He took a perinnial loser and made it into one of the greatest dynasties in pro sports. How many former assts have been/are head coaches in the NFL now? And then there are those three Lombardi trophies he won.
Chuck Knoll - Four Super Bowls. 'Nuff Said He's the reason Landry only won two SBs and Madden only saw one.
Don Shula - Most wins in NFL history. (Regular season (328) and all-time (347)) Five SB appearances (2-3 but oh well). He averaged 10 wins a season in 33 years as a head coach.
Joe Gibbs - 3 SBs wins in four appearances in 12 seasons. (With three QBs) Only one losing season in 12 seasons. Came out of retirement to a completely different game and has again fielded a winner making it to the divisional round of the playoffs last year.
Tom Landry - Five SB appearances and two Lombardi trophies (Yet another victim of Chuck Knoll). Coached the Cowboys to 20 consecutive winning seasons, still a record. Holds the record for most playoff wins. He is also credited with inventing the 4-3 defense. I hate the Cowboys but Landry was a hell of a coach.

There are a lot of current coaches who could be on this list, but I think you wait until their careers are over to pass judgement. Obviously Bill Belichek is right there. You can't argue with three SB wins. Mavin Lewis has done a spectacular job so far as has Lovie Smith. But neither of them have seen the Super Bowl yet. Dungy fields a winner every year but can't seem to get out of the playoffs. What's more, Chucky took his Tampa team and won a SB with it. Jimmy Johnson? He had a spectacular run with the 'Boys. Hard to argue with is two SB wins. But basically he did it with a great core of guys and couldn't duplicate that success with another team. I suppose you cold say that about most of the coaches on my list (except Gibbs) but I was never JJ fan... and I hate the Cowboys.

One name I left off my list that I thought could have been on there was Marv Levey. But since he couldn't even pull off one win in his four trips to the SB I bagged him. And if Holmgren get the 'Hawks back to the SB and WINS he's on the list. No doubt about it.





 
Originally posted by: Jadow
1 Parcells
2 Lombardi
3 Halas
4 Walsh
5 Jimmy Johnson
6 Bill Cowher
7 Shula
8 Chuck Knoll
9 Hank Stramm
10 Tom Landry
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this entire list is a joke.
 
Originally posted by: preslove
1 Gibbs
2 Lombardi
3. Belichick
4. Madden
5. Shula
6. Walsh
7. Cowher
8. Landry
9. Parcells
10.... Jimmy Johnson?
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that's list is the most accurate list i've seen so far.
 
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: preslove
1 Gibbs
2 Lombardi
3. Belichick
4. Madden
5. Shula
6. Walsh
7. Cowher
8. Landry
9. Parcells
10.... Jimmy Johnson?
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that's list is the most accurate list i've seen so far.
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How can you have a list with Cowher on it but not Chuck Noll? Like I said before, Chuck Knoll is the reason Landry only won two Super Bowls. He's the reason Madden only got to one Super Bowl and both of those coaches are on the list. Yet Cowher, with a slough of AFC Championship losses (many of them at home no less) and only one Super Bowl win is better than Noll with his four trophies? I don't think so.

 
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: preslove
1 Gibbs
2 Lombardi
3. Belichick
4. Madden
5. Shula
6. Walsh
7. Cowher
8. Landry
9. Parcells
10.... Jimmy Johnson?
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that's list is the most accurate list i've seen so far.
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lmao. yeah, gibbs above lombardi and cowher above parcells and landry :roll:

now that your credibility is zero, why not just add herm edwards and be done with it :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: preslove
1 Gibbs
2 Lombardi
3. Belichick
4. Madden
5. Shula
6. Walsh
7. Cowher
8. Landry
9. Parcells
10.... Jimmy Johnson?
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that's list is the most accurate list i've seen so far.
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😕
How can you have a list with Cowher on it but not Chuck Knoll? Like I said before, Chuck Knoll is the reason Landry only won two Super Bowls. He's the reason Madden only got to one Super Bowl and both of those coaches are on the list. Yet Cowher, with a slough of AFC Championship losses (many of them at home no less) and only one Super Bowl win is better than Knoll with his four trophies? I don't think so.
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knoll was a damn fine coach but the same reasons belichicks detractors slight him holds true for knoll. and i'm not saying i agree with it, just saying why they will discount knoll.
 
oh yeah, cowher is the least deserving candidate out of all the coashes listed. he's a joke.
 
Originally posted by: preslove
1 Gibbs
2 Lombardi
3. Belichick
4. Madden
5. Shula
6. Walsh
7. Cowher
8. Landry
9. Parcells
10.... Jimmy Johnson?
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Gibbs #1? Um no but definately top 5. I'd take Lombardi. Landry, or Belichick over him. Madden didn't coach long enough to be in the top 5, imo. Jimmy Johnson would have been higher but he left before getting the 3rd SB... but based on length of tenure with Dallas and lack of production in Miami, I wouldn't put him in top ten (and I'm a big Jimmy fan).
 
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: preslove
1 Gibbs
2 Lombardi
3. Belichick
4. Madden
5. Shula
6. Walsh
7. Cowher
8. Landry
9. Parcells
10.... Jimmy Johnson?
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that's list is the most accurate list i've seen so far.
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😕
How can you have a list with Cowher on it but not Chuck Noll?
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Cause the entirety of his football knowledge was gleaned from the Sony Playstation.
 
I agree with a lot of the choices, though I might put shula closer to the top and try to squeeze holmgren in somewhere.
 
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: rise
Originally posted by: eits
i think a huge reason why the pats were so good was because of bruschi.
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well, then i guess you're in for a surprise. bruschi may be a sparkplug, but what makes the pats go is Brady, Seymour, Wilfork and now Marroney. Pats go 12-4 this year (they better, i have the over 😛)
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if the pats go that far, it'd be because the afc will suck balls (just like it normally does... not saying the nfc was stellar the past couple years, though.)
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WHAT!? bwaaahahahahaha.




... wait... you're serious?


.. bahahahahahaha
 
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: rise
yeah, if hall of fames in any sport were a measuring stick of greatness than we'd all be saluting people like, oh lets see eric dickerson. how many titles did he win?
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dickerson was a player, not a team or coach. players get in the hall of fame by setting records.

gibbs' coaching record, by the way, is 157-82-0

parcells' coaching record, by the way, is 163-123-1

oh, by the way, gibbs came out of football coaching retirement after doing the whole nascar thing (where his team won a championship) to coach again... and turned the skins into a team with a winning record again... he even brought them to the playoffs!
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Only to be in the basement of the NFC East this year 😉
 
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