GCMB Poll: Best NFL Coach Ever

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BruceWayne

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I guess you can't argue against Belichick. I voted for Bill Walsh. The west coast offense revolutionized the nfl. His coaching tree is crazy good too.
 

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Lombardi ----> Six NFL titles
Lambeau ----> Six NFL titles
Belichick ----> Five NFL titles

Quit being so hung up on the Super Bowl.
 

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Great. You have your opinion and I have mine. I could go with BB no problem.
It's not an opinion that Lombardi's two superbowls were in the same years as the last two NFL titles he won. The AFL/NFL merger didn't happen until after superbowl II.

That doesn't mean Lombardi isn't a great choice. I just wanted to point out that saying he won more championships than Belichick is inaccurate.
 

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Lombardi ----> Six NFL titles
Lambeau ----> Six NFL titles
Belichick ----> Five NFL titles

Quit being so hung up on the Super Bowl.
The old NFL is basically like the NFC. So I'd say it's more like:

Lombardi ----> Five NFL titles
Lambeau ----> Six NFL titles
Belichick ----> Eight AFC titles

Only counting wins as a head coach. Lombardi was a head coach for far fewer years than the other guys though.
 
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The NFL is basically like the NFC. So I'd say it's more like:

Lombardi ----> Five NFL titles
Lambeau ----> Six NFL titles
Belichick ----> Eight NFC titles

Only counting wins as a head coach. Lombardi was a head coach for far fewer years than the other guys though.
Not clear on your math. Which AFL team would have beaten Lombardi's Packers during the first four runs?
 

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Not clear on your math. Which AFL team would have beaten Lombardi's Packers during the first four runs?
You mean the first 3 runs? Who knows. Look, I get it, it's tough to compare guys across eras. Lombardi had a 9-1 record in the playoffs. Amazing. But it's tough for me to say an NFL title that was from a 14 team league with a 2 team playoff is the same as a superbowl from a 32 team league with a 12 team playoff. And I'm absolutely not going to count 2 championships in one year for going 2-0 in the post season.
 

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Paul Brown is not getting enough love in this thread. Want jaw-dropping? Check out his coaching tree.


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You mean the first 3 runs? Who knows. Look, I get it, it's tough to compare guys across eras. Lombardi had a 9-1 record in the playoffs. Amazing. But it's tough for me to say an NFL title that was from a 14 team league with a 2 team playoff is the same as a superbowl from a 32 team league with a 12 team playoff. And I'm absolutely not going to count 2 championships in one year for going 2-0 in the post season.
No, I mean the first four, all against NFL teams when that decided the league champion. The last two came in Super Bowls.
 

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No, I mean the first four, all against NFL teams when that decided the league champion. The last two came in Super Bowls.
So you are counting his 1956 NFL championship as the offensive coordinator of the Giants?
 

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Lombardi ----> Six NFL titles
Lambeau ----> Six NFL titles
Belichick ----> Five NFL titles

Quit being so hung up on the Super Bowl.
Quit being so hung up on conference titles in leather helmet years. You sound like a Bammer or ND fan.
 

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Quit being so hung up on conference titles in leather helmet years. You sound like a Bammer or ND fan.

No he isn't. You are the one hung up on a marketing ploy when the NFL changed the name of their championship from the NFL championship to the "Super Bowl." That is about as meaningful as the Monday night football records ABC touted at one time.

As for the poll, this is a tough one:

1. Noll had maybe the highest peak, but a long decline.

2. Walsh and Lombardi had very high peaks but only coached 10 years.

3. Landry and Shula had long careers with championships and sustained excellence.

4. Halas won titles in the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 60s. but did not have the sustained excellence of Landry and Shula.

5. Belichick has a long career and sustained excellence with more titles.

I guess maybe it is Belichick when you throw in free agency. It is funny that while Lombardi treated his players "all alike, like dogs," Belichick has really been the most ruthless of coaches/GMs and that has helped him sustain.
 

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Very tough call. I hate have to pick against Lombardi, Walsh, and Landry. Halas and Brown set the standard, and moved football more into the national spotlight at a time when baseball was America's favorite pastime. Gibbs should be on the list, winning three Super Bowls with three different starting quarterbacks. Belichick gets my nod, for being perhaps the best at adapting his game plan to that of his opponent each week, year after year.
 

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Quit being so hung up on conference titles in leather helmet years. You sound like a Bammer or ND fan.
Here is the deal. If you aint into football you are a pussy. We know that is your mantra. You call it leather helmet years. REAL men played football back then. Unitas was hit all the time unlike now where you have to be "careful". Now a great hit ( like that one Gronk) is criminal and used to be an all pro hit, What they play now is more pussy ball than when Lombardi coached and Ditka and Brown played. And they played for one team and took what pay they could get (many had other jobs). Real football.
 

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They tend to fall into two different categories.

First you have the master motivators who get the most out of their players on every play. They instill toughness, discipline, and a championship mentality. Lombardi, Shula, Tom Coughlin, etc.

Second you have the master innovators who introduce things like the forward pass, the zone defense, the west coast offense, the zone blitz, the spread, etc. Coryell, Walsh, Paul Brown, etc.

This is tough.

I’d say the best coach for a team would be Belichick.

But he hasn’t changed the game the way Walsh did. Look at what Walsh did and look at what all his assistants did running that same offense with other teams. He’s the father of the dink and dunk offenses we have been seeing over the last 35-40 years.



Alex.
You are correct. He did, dang it.
 

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Vince!!!!!!!
 

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