The legacy of a coach cannot be determined solely by their accomplishments. One must consider his individual seasons, accomplishments with each team he coached, and impact on the game when evaluating his entire body of work during his career. The team’s collective brain is the head coach in the NFL. They will need to make wise choices and figure out how to guide the team to victory.
In this article, we will take a look at the five greatest NFL coaches of all time who have done an excellent job in training the NFL teams and driving them to success.
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Vince Lombardi
Lombardi built a remarkable legacy with the Green Bay Packers in just nine seasons. He is the only coach to have five NFL championships in seven seasons. Lombardi is an expert at inspiring his team. He is a thorough planner as well. We can see from the Packers’ active play that they seem to anticipate potential circumstances. This NFL head coach is a draught class pioneer as well. He was the first coach to make a first-round selection of an African-American athlete. Lombardi’s 9-1 record is still impressive today. He deserves to be included on this list of the best NFL head coaches because of his impressive 0.738 winning percentage. The NFL opted to rename the Super Bowl trophy Lombardi in his honor after his passing in 1970.
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Tony Dungy
With Tampa Bay, Tony Dungy began his coaching tenure in last place in the league. The team has had 13 straight losing seasons from 1983 to 1995. They had six wins or fewer in each of the previous ten seasons. Dungy’s first season with the Buccaneers wasn’t easy either, but the head coach avoided having to endure a second unsuccessful campaign. In his last six seasons, this NFL coach has never suffered a losing streak against the Colts of more than four games.
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Joe Gibbs
The Redskins won three Super Bowls during the 16 years Gibbs worked as their head coach in Washington (1982–1991). Theisman, Williams, and Rypien were the three different starting quarterbacks during Gibbs’ three Super Bowl victories, making him the first coach in NFL history to accomplish this feat. The overall records for Gibbs were 154-94 during the regular season and 17-7 during the postseason.
Two of Gibbs’ championships came during seasons when there were NFL lockouts. The 1982 Redskins, who finished the regular season with an 8-1 record, won four postseason games thanks to the running of Hall of Fame running back John Riggins and an offensive line known as “The Hogs.” After players went on strike during the season five years later, the Redskins went 3-0 with a team full of replacements. With a record-setting 35 points in the second quarter of its 42-10 victory over Denver, Washington went on to win the Super Bowl that year.
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Bill Walsh
Walsh’s 10-year tenure as an NFL head coach was relatively brief, yet he had a significant impact on the sport. The West Coast offence’s creator, Walsh’s 49ers, led by Joe Montana, won three Super Bowls in the 1980s while showcasing a brand-new, effective method of advancing the ball down the field. Today, more than 30 years after Walsh’s final contest as the head coach of the 49ers, NFL teams continue to use a Walsh-designed offence.
One of the best NFL teams ever was Walsh’s squad from 1984. The 49ers, the first team to win 15 games in a season, dominated the Dolphins’ record-breaking offence in Super Bowl XIX, intercepting Dan Marino twice and shutting down Miami’s offence in the second half of San Francisco’s 38-16 victory. Four years later, in the final seconds of Super Bowl XXIII, Montana executed Walsh’s offence brilliantly, leading to his game-winning touchdown pass to John Taylor with under a minute remaining.
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Chuck Noll
One of the key figures behind the Steelers’ dynasty in the 1970s, Noll transformed the team in Pittsburgh from a perennially losing one to an NFL juggernaut in just three years. The Steelers earned their first-ever division title in 1972 under Noll’s leadership after finishing 1-13 in his first season. Pittsburgh earned the first of its four Super Bowl championships during a six-year period two years later. The only club to have won back-to-back Super Bowls twice is Noll’s Steelers, who went 4-0 in Super Bowl action. The last all-homegrown squad to win the Super Bowl was the 1979 Pittsburgh Steelers.
Future NFL champions were judged by how well-rounded Noll’s teams performed on the pitch. However, what Pittsburgh achieved in the draught was just as crucial to their success at that age.
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