I believe this article was listing only currently active coaches. Hard to believe that the Cleveland browns hired the two guys at the top of this list...and fired them.Uh Oh, there went diversity out the window. I would have put Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi in there, just from my limited Pro watching.
Landry was a model of consistency but he won only two championships in 29 yrs as a HC. Besides I think this list is limited to ACTIVE coaches only.Uh Oh, there went diversity out the window. I would have put Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi in there, just from my limited Pro watching.
He's been to two Super Bowls, winning one of them. IMO most idiotic coaches don't do that.Tomlin is a joke to be on the list at 4. I watched him make a decision in an OT game this year that was nothing short of idiotic.
Who would you put on the list instead of Tomlin? I pulled these statistics from the Steelers website. Pretty impressive.Tomlin is a joke to be on the list at 4. I watched him make a decision in an OT game this year that was nothing short of idiotic.
I think you are spot on. If you really want to coach, college is the place, I were I see the great coaches. Maybe the insane money has made it harder to really be an authoritarian coach in the NFL, but something changed.I cannot remember an era with fewer "great" coaches in the NFL. Parcells, Walsh, Gibbs, Cowher, Holmgren, and even "good" if not "great" coaches like Marv Levy, Dan Reeves, Dick Vermeil, and Tony Dungy would outrank all but probably 2 active pro coaches today.
Which is why they will never be great.I believe this article was listing only currently active coaches. Hard to believe that the Cleveland browns hired the two guys at the top of this list...and fired them.
and Marv Levy.If you are counting head coaches who are no longer coaching........in other words best head coach of all time, Don Shula should at least be in the conversation.
328 career wins between the Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins. With only 158 losses his winning percentage is .676.
He also played CB for 6 years for the Browns, Colts, and Redskins.
Many notable accolades but one distinction not too great is he is tied with Bud Grant for the most (4) Super Bowl losses of any NFL head coach.
Other than that......:smile:
To suggest that he's had less than Tomlin is a stretch.Andy Reid is a great head coach. A man who has done more with less, but not managed to win a SB. Give him Tomlin's players and he probably has a few rings.
I doubt it. Reid is Marty Schottenheimer 2.0.Andy Reid is a great head coach. A man who has done more with less, but not managed to win a SB. Give him Tomlin's players and he probably has a few rings.
Can't they all just be Americans? Who was the coach born in Africa?SDS put this on my Facebook page - 1) Belichick, 2) Saban, 3) Meyer, 4) Mike Tomlin, 5) Pete Carroll. I did a quick memory check and it's one African American, One German and 2.5 Croats. (Carroll is the ".5.") Must be something in the genes...
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