Top 50 NFL Head Coaches
 

Interesting. Top ranked current coach is Belichick, at 12. I'll be honest, I would've put him much higher. Like third.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/5...l-time#page/51

1. Paul Brown
2. Vince Lombardi
3. Don Shula
4. Chuck Noll (too high)
5. Bill Walsh (too low)
6. Tom Landry
7. Curly Lambeau
8. George Halas
9. Hank Stram
10. Bud Grant (too high)
11. George Allen (too high)
12. Bill Belichick (too low)
13. Bill Parcells
14. Tony Dungy (too high)
15. Joe Gibbs (too low)
16. Weeb Ewbank
17. Bill Cowher (too high)
18. Chuck Knox
19. John Madden
20. Mike Ditka
21. Steve Owen (coached in the 1930s)
22. Jimmy Johnson (too low)
23. Sid Gillman
24. George Seifort
25. Don Coryell (too high for HC, though he was a great OC)
26. Marv Levy
27. Mike Holmgren
28. Tom Flores
29. Dan Reeves
30. Ray Flaherty (coached in 30s/40s)
31. Mike Shanahan
32. Blanton Collier (coached in the 60s)
33. Dennis Green
34. Greasy Neale (coached ine the 40s)
35. Bum Phillips
36. Guy Chamberlain
37. Dick Vermeil
38. Potsy Clark
39. Marty Schottenheimer
40. Sam Wyche
[two guys you never heard of]
43. Tom Coughlin
44. John Gruden
45. Andy Reid
[someone from the stone age]
47. Brian Billick
48. Jim Mora
49. Jeff Fisher
50. Sam Rutigliano (mostly for being a great guy)

Dungy at 14?

Oh my

So I like the first two, and in that order. The way NFL teams do things now -- training camps and all that stuff -- is mostly because of what Paul Brown instituted. He was also a tremendous innovator in terms of formations, etc.

I'll then go with Bill Walsh at 3, Belichick 4, Noll 5, Shula 6, then I'm not sure I'm too fussed about how you mix Landry/Gibbs/Lambeau/Halas at 7-10. Then something like Parcells, Stram, Jimmy Johnson, Allen, and go from there.

Paul brown wouldn't even cross my mind for the top 50. I know little about him.

Shanahan should be in the top 10.

He's the greatest NFL head coach ever. He just wasn't as fiery/exciting of a personality as Lombardi, so he's a bit less famous. Lombardi may have been the best ever motivator of players, but Brown was the best coach.

His bio, in brief:

Founder of the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals. It's why the Browns are called the Browns, and why the Bengals play at Paul Brown Stadium.

He integrated the old AAFC, which later merged with the NFL, bringing in its first AFrican-American players.

After merging with the NFL:

Where's Herm?....

JK.

Not that high, though higher than 31, in my book. Probably mid 20s. We'll see how he does with the Redskins, however. He inherited Elway and really struggled to do much of anything without him.

I guess when you're gifted one of the greatest QB's of all time you really gotta coach 'em up.

Heh. Don't forget, though, that he had some phenomenal teams at Tampa Bay, which admittedly never did well in the playoffs, but those were still very good teams with (usually) mediocre QBs.

He'd be ON the list, but at 14? Above Joe f'ing Gibbs?!?! NFW.

Just ask anyone in the DC area.

Really, him and Dungy got lucky in having great QB's.

Where's Haley? He should be about 3 or 4

Fisher should be higher up because he has a mustache

after sunday they will redo the list

Marv Levy should be above Tony Dungy.

Tony Dungy shouldn't even be on the list, what a joke.

Others I question: Brian Billick, Jon Gruden, Jim Mora.

I don't understand Dennis Green being on that list.

they are who they that they were. and we let them off the hook.

None of those guys belong there.

we are not too surprised you think that

Josh McDaniels should be in the bottom 10 of all time.

McDaniels top 25 yet, you think?