Welcome to Bill Walsh's NFL

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

56 minutes ago, Low Positive said:

Carter was essentially the Brock Purdy of the early '70s.  

 

Listen, Paul Brown was an egomaniacal dictator, but his influence on the modern passing game is immense. 

 

 

Brock Purdy, Brock Purdy, yada, yada, yada.  I am tired of hearing that name. 🤨😁

Paul Brown also raised a parsimonious son.  So that tarnishes his accomplishments.

[RiotAct]

damn, Sean McVay is what? 42 years old or something? And already has a hell of a set of branches on his tree.

[Low Positive]

2 minutes ago, RiotAct said:

damn, Sean McVay is what? 42 years old or something? And already has a hell of a set of branches on his tree.

If you get on his staff, hit the gym and get out the hair gel  You'll be a HC within a year. 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

Who taught Mike Shanahan how to glower?  Bill Cowher? 🤔

[Coach Tuesday]

Great thread.

[LABILLBACKER]

Is this like the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon?

Edited Saturday at 06:21 PM by LABILLBACKER

[RiotAct]

21 minutes ago, Low Positive said:

If you get on his staff, hit the gym and get out the hair gel  You'll be a HC within a year. 

… I can probably make that happen!

[Buffalo Barbarian]

56 minutes ago, Punch said:

FWIW, Bill Walsh's first collegiate coaching job was as WR coach under Marv Levy at Cal.

 

That's it , Marv is the godfather

 

 

[Buffalo Junction]

2 hours ago, MJS said:

Cool. There is no doubt that virtually every team runs at least some west coast offense principles in their offenses.

 

Although, I'm not sure it makes sense for the defensive coaches. It would be interesting to see if there is a similar link on the defensive side where everything stems from.

A Fritz Shurmur DC tree could be interesting. It would include Jim Johnson, McDermott, etc on one branch. Bum Philips and Buddy Ryan would also be interesting. 

[MPL]

When do we get to

the George Siefert NFL?

[Low Positive]

4 minutes ago, MPL said:

When do we get to

the George Siefert NFL?

Seifert looked like Ted Knight on coke.

[Chaos]

Really the Paul Brown coaching tree. 

[Chaos]

2 hours ago, Low Positive said:

Why stop at Walsh? Walsh famously worked for Paul Brown in Cincinnati for many years and developed the "West Coast Offense" there. It really should be the Ohio River Offense, but I digress. Paul Brown's coaching tree has Walsh, Don Shula, and Chuck Knoll as its main branches. Any current NFL coach can be traced back to that.

 

Hopefully the thread title is corrected at some point. 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

21 minutes ago, Buffalo Junction said:

A Fritz Shurmur DC tree could be interesting. It would include Jim Johnson, McDermott, etc on one branch. Bum Philips and Buddy Ryan would also be interesting. 

"I'm Buddy Ryan, this is my son Darryl, and this is my other son Darryl."

[GunnerBill]

11 minutes ago, Chaos said:

Really the Paul Brown coaching tree. 

 

I'm not that old.

[Low Positive]

What’s interesting is that Walsh never had an OC until his final year in SF.

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

very cool thread. informative as well as enlightening on how nfl coaches have evolved.

 

 

 

 

[GunnerBill]

13 minutes ago, Low Positive said:

What’s interesting is that Walsh never had an OC until his final year in SF.

 

Coaching staffs were just much smaller generally.

[Shaw66]

Thanks for this thread.  It's interesting to think about that evolution. 

 

 

[djp14150]

A question I have is with Sean Payton because he also was under Parcells