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Originally Posted by rico
This... and to think he is in the HOF. Blech.
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I'm not a huge fan of Dungy or anything, but can you name five better coaches over the last, say, 20 years?
Let's face it, he had continued success with two separate organizations over a pretty long period of time. Sure, you can point to Peyton, but I look forward to the coaches you naming not having a Brees, Brady, Rogers, or whoever as QB.
I think after Belichick, over the last 20 years there are a number of guys who don't really scream out GREAT in any meaningful way. McCarthy and Payton (and perhaps Tomlin), and of course Dungy have the "you haven't done well enough with the great QB you've had", while other guys have either been too inconsistent (Coughlin) or can't seem to do anything in the playoffs (Marv Lewis). I think very highly of the Ravens' Harbaugh, but his trajectory has faltered a bit in the post Lewis/Reed era. I think he'll recover, but we'll see. Ozzie Newsome's drafts lately are also partly responsible for the dropoff there.
I remember the 80s, with Shula, Landry, Parcells, Walsh, Gibbs and a handful of others, and wonder why there don't seem to be many great coaches now. Then again, Shula went to 2 SBs and lost both in the last, like 20 years of his coaching career, despite having Marino. You could look at him and be like "look it's Tony Dungy".
