Paul Brown would be higher on the list, however, a lot of players/coaches whom he influenced also tie in with the legendary Sid Gillman. Andy Reid, Jon Gruden, Steve Mariucci, even Mike McCarthy — these are just a few names of head coaches from the Holmgren tree, while former McCarthy assistants like … Koetter is maybe the biggest coaching vagabond in the NFL. Obviously the more profound descendants, the greater the influence on pro football. Payton has called Parcells a “father figure.”. Tomlin is one of many head coaches who started on Tony Dungy’s staff. Before we begin, here are some of the greatest coaches in NFL history however, their predecessors weren't nearly as successful. At the forefront is Mike Holmgren, George Seifert, Paul Hackett, Jim Fassel and Dennis Green. With all the success that Marty planted, here's to hoping he gets back into coaching for one more shot at his own Super Bowl. Reid’s coaching career started to take off as he worked under Dirk Koetter, who hired him at UTEP in the late 1980s as an offensive line coach and brought him to Missouri when he became the Tigers’ offensive coordinator in 1989. He remained under Bill Belichick’s watch until last year, by which time he had been defensive coordinator for six years. Quinn apprenticed under several NFL coaches, including Steve Mariucci and Nick Saban, but he learned the most from Pete Carroll, for whom he coordinated Seattle’s defense in 2013 and 2014. Two other coaches of note are John Mackovic and Gene Stallings, both of which had great success at the college level. There, Mackovic and Stallings combined for 10 final Top 25 rankings and eight conference championships. After two seasons with the Cardinal, Walsh resurfaced in the NFL with the San Francisco 49ers, won three Super Bowls and has a monstrous coaching tree of his own. The man spent time serving under Paul Brown, Sid Gillman, as well as Al Davis (who's under Gillman) before he was hired as Stanford's head coach in 1977. That being said, Parcells did win two Super Bowl's himself (Giants in 1986 and 1990) and made a third with the New England Patriots in 1996. Coryell was a brilliant coach and should probably be recognized with a bust in Canton. McDermott was a defensive coordinator under Ron Rivera in Carolina for six years, but his most important apprenticeship happened under Andy Reid in Philadelphia, where he worked his way up from a scouting assistant to defensive coordinator over 12 years. Prior to the Cowboys, Landry was the New York Giants defensive coordinator along with Vince Lombardi as the offensive coordinator. His father, Steve Mariucci, was an NFL head coach and is currently an Analyst at NFL Network. Many of Holmgren's 1992 coaches, including Andy Reid, Steve Mariucci, Dick Jauron, Ray Rhodes, and Jon Gruden, would go on to head coaching careers in the NFL. Garrett’s lone non-Dallas coaching experience came as Nick Saban’s quarterbacks coach during his two-year stint in Miami. Allen was most remembered as the Washington Redskins head coach but other than he and Ditka, Halas didn't have much else after him. But he came to prominence as defensive coordinator for Bill Parcells, with whom he shares a complicated relationship. Marrone was Sean Payton’s first offensive coordinator with the Saints, from 2006 to 2008. Zimmer worked under Marvin Lewis in Cincinnati for six seasons before Minnesota gave him his first head coaching shot. The Don Coryell Coaching Tree. Lewis became a rising star as the Ravens’ defensive coordinator under Brian Billick, but his main NFL influence was Bill Cowher, who hired him as the Steelers’ linebackers coach in 1992. Under Cowher comes two solid coaches in Marvin Lewis and Ken Wisenhunt, while Dungy had Mike Tomlin and Lovie Smith. In short, all you can do is appreciate the great foundation put forth by Sid Gillman. July 30, 2007 Updated: Jan. 15, 2012 1:03 p.m. Facebook Twitter Email. Among these coaches alone we have six Super Bowl appearances and three Lombardi Trophies. Mornhinweg and Mariucci came from the Mike Holmgren coaching tree, while Caldwell and Marinelli were closely aligned with Tony Dungy. Marty Mornhinweg , an assistant hired later in Holmgren's tenure at Green Bay, also became an NFL head coach, and was previously an offensive coordinator under Reid with the Philadelphia Eagles from 2006 to 2012. Gruden entered the NFL as a low-level offensive assistant with the 49ers in 1990, placing him at the fore of his generation’s clan of West Coast offense adherents. Payton worked for three years in Dallas under Bill Parcells, who nicknamed Payton “Dennis the Menace” because of his boyish face and penchant for disagreeing with him. So, add six more Super Bowls not including Dungy and then everything else after Bill Walsh. What's even more impressive about these three, is that none are quite finished just yet and much more resume building will happen. Patricia, famously a rocket scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before he got into coaching, joined the Patriots as a grunt in 2004. That's right, it was all Hank and no one else coaching eventual Hall of Famers in Len Dawson, Bobby Bell, Buck Buchanon and Willie Lanier. Whether they’re being promoted or fired, NFL coaches change jobs so frequently that they invariably grow close to one another as their coaching network intertwines between different coaching generations. For his first NFL job, Harbaugh joined the Eagles as a special teams coordinator in 1998. the year before Andy Reid arrived. Reid brought Nagy with him from Philadelphia to Kansas City, where Nagy worked as Reid’s quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator. Best friends with former NFL head coach Steve Mariucci, who was a HS classmate at Iron Mountain; Along with his wife, Lupe, has two children; Tom Izzo Coaching Tree. Dick Jauron, BUF — Aside from three years as Holmgren's defensive backs coach in Green Bay, he also worked for Holmgren disciple Steve Mariucci. Schottenheimer employed 16 eventual NFL head coaches, including current coaches Hue Jackson and Mike McCarthy. All three combined for six Super Bowl appearances and ironically Super Bowl XX pitted Berry and Ditka against each other. He worked under Mike Holmgren with the Packers from 1992-94. Reich broke into the NFL as a low-level assistant for Tony Dungy in Indianapolis, where Bill Polian, the general manager who drafted him as a quarterback in Buffalo, ran the organization. As a longtime defensive coordinator, including from 1996 to 2008 with Tampa Bay, he developed the Cover 2 defense, which Tony Dungy helped perfect – and reshaped as the Tampa 2 defense – as the Buccaneers’ head coach. Since the NFL began in 1920, there have been numerous head coaches with much individual success to their credit. Coaches on the 1992 Green Bay Packers coached by Mike Holmgren, Sherman Lewis, Ray Rhodes, and staff. From 1985 to 1991, spanning tenures with Cleveland and Kansas City, Cowher worked for only one head coach: Marty Schottenheimer. Alas we get to Sid Gillman, the man to which virtually everything can be traced back to. There I have listed who current head coaches have worked under. His primary NFL influence was Ray Perkins, the innovator behind the Erhardt-Perkins offense. Dan Quinn: Atlanta Falcons(2015–present) 6. From an expansive coaching tree to his innovative offense, the Chiefs coach has left his mark on the NFL. Arguably the biggest upset in American sports history and two of pro football's most important wins come from an Ewbank coached team. Then, there's the coaches who planted a seed and the tree kept growing. The web of coaching connections in the NFL is nearly endless. He also was a Dolphins assistant while Parcells oversaw football operations in Miami. Thing is, this coaching tree is only going to continue and the more we see the NFL change, the more it will stay the same because of Walsh's impact. After Gillman's direct line comes other greats such as John Madden, Tom Flores, Joe Gibbs and Tony Dungy (connected from Noll and Schottenheimer). His "coaching tree" includes NFL head coaches such as Steve Mariucci, Tom Cable and Hue Jackson and collegiate coaches such as Rich Ellerson at Army, Tennessee offensive coordinator Jim Chaney, Northwestern defensive coordinator Jerry Brown and Oregon State defensive coordinator Greg Newhouse. Photos by Associated Press. We are continually adding more visualizations of the data to provide a more rich experience for the end user. Quinn apprenticed under several NFL coaches, including Steve Mariucci and Nick Saban, ... From an expansive coaching tree to his innovative offense, the Chiefs coach has left his mark on the NFL. Tom Izzo (/ ˈ ɪ z oʊ /, Italian pronunciation: ); born January 30, 1955), is an American college basketball coach who has been the head coach at Michigan State University since 1995. Featuring Brett Favre, Vince Workman & Tony Bennett. Jim L. Mora: Atlanta Falcons (2004–2006), Seattle Seahawks (2009), UCLA(2012–2017) 5. He was a mentor for Pete Carroll, whom he hired at N.C. State in the early 1980s. Much like Tom Landry and Marty Schottenheimer, Bill Parcell's coaching tree isn't too deep. In the pros, he only worked as an offensive coordinator under a defensive head coach – Jack Del Rio in Jacksonville, Mike Smith in Atlanta and Lovie Smith in Tampa Bay. All of Bill Walsh's tree can be connected with Gillman and even part of Marty Schottenheimer's. Parcells employed 16 assistants who at one point worked as NFL head coaches. Coach Trees was founded in 2009 with the intent of using software to document the relationships between coaches. By the end of the 2005 season, both Mariucci and Harrington were no longer with the Lions organization. For seven years, in multiple stints, Jackson learned under Marvin Lewis in Cincinnati, including two years as offensive coordinator. Brown though, had some excellent players/assistants of his own move on to great things such as Weeb Ewbank, Blanton Collier, Don Shula and Sam Wyche. Under the tutelage of Holmgren, contemporary head coaches like Steve Mariucci , Jon Gruden and Andy Reid learned the trade and became, each of them, coaching legends. During Stump Mitchell’s 25 year coaching (16 in the National Football League), he has earned the respect of organizations, fellow coaches as well as the numerous players under his tutelage. Steve Mariucci (Quarterbacks) – San Francisco 49ers (97-02), Detroit Lions (03-05). Reid retained him, and he didn’t leave until he took over the Ravens. Together, that's five Super Bowls and currently three Hall of Famers. Before he became a head coach, Joseph was Adam Gase’s defensive coordinator in Miami. Gruden was Marvin Lewis’s offensive coordinator for three years in Cincinnati before joining Washington, but his primary influence is obvious: He worked as an assistant for his brother, Jon, for seven seasons in Tampa Bay. There, Landry developed the 4-3 defense that revolutionized the game. His first major college job was coaching quarterbacks at BYU in 1982, when the staff also included a graduate assistant named Andy Reid. What most forget though, is that Stram coached those 15 years and had that much success without an offensive, defensive or special teams coordinator. Wilks took a long road to his first head coaching job, working under Lovie Smith and Norv Turner along the way. Directly after Marty comes Super Bowl champions Bill Cowher and Tony Dungy, each who have won one ring and continued Schottenheimer's thread. The Mike Holmgren Coaching Tree. McVay typifies the overlapping Shanahan-Gruden connections: He served as a tight ends coach under Mike Shanahan and an offensive coordinator under Jay Gruden, both with Washington. “It’s a forest.” But through the branches, every coach can point to one head coach who’s most responsible for helping him land one of the league’s 32 coveted positions. As part of the Bill Walsh coaching tree, Mike Holmgren has also mentored and developed some of the most famous and successful names within the NFL’s coaching ranks. A coaching tree specifically tracks which head coach previously worked underneath another coach before getting his… Shanahan also coordinated offenses for Gary Kubiak, a disciple of his dad, in Houston and Dan Quinn in Atlanta. Weeb Ewbank was under Brown from 1949 until he took over the Baltimore Colts in 1954. He coached defensive backs in Tampa Bay under Dungy before becoming a defensive coordinator under Brad Childress in Minnesota. During his time, Gillman compiled a 123-103-7 record, one AFL championship (1963) and six total championship game appearances (five of six came from 1960-65). McCarthy worked as an offensive coordinator for Jim Haslett and Mike Nolan with the Saints and 49ers, but he spent the first six years of his NFL career as an offensive assistant for Marty Schottenheimer’s Chiefs. Accurately placing him in the NFL’s coaching web is a challenge. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. But his main influence was Bill Parcells, for whom he was a secondary coach for two seasons. The … Carroll, considered one of the best defensive backs coaches ever, has a unique trajectory. He also was head coach of the Lions. No coach shaped him more than Ron Rivera in Carolina, where Wilks spent six years as a defensive backs coach and defensive coordinator. Nagy started his career as an intern for Andy Reid, and he didn’t leave Reid’s side until he became a head coach this year. 2x NFC West Division Winner Dick Jauron (Defensive Backs) – Chicago Bears (99-03), Detroit Lions (interim for 5 games in 05), Buffalo Bills (06-09), 2001 AP Coach of the Year Tom Izzo : biography January 30, 1955 – Tom Izzo ( ; born January 30, 1955) is an American college basketball coach. image/svg+xml Bill Walsh Mike Holmgren Jim Fassel Paul Hackett Sam Wyche George Seifert Dennis Green Mike Tice Brian Billick Scott Linehan Jack Del Rio Mike Smith Tony Dungy Lovie Smith Mike Tomlin Rod Marinelli Mike Shanahan Jim Fisher Gary Kubiak Mike Mularkey Bruce Coslet Jim Harbaugh Bill Callahan John Gruden Mike McCarthy John Fox Marty Mornhinweg Steve Mariucci Ray Rhodes Mike … Sought After By Colleagues Twice, coaches who worked with Stump brought him on when they became head coaches. Gillman himself though, had enough success to earn a pro and college football Hall of Fame induction, so it's safe to say he can be put in that greatest of all-time discussion. The question is who can continue to best the others, because Belichick, Coughlin and Payton are arguably the three best coaches in the NFL right now. Since 1995, he has been the head coach for the Michigan State Spartans men’s basketball team, presiding over a prolonged period of success. In Mike Holmgren's first season as the Packers' head coach, his staff included five future NFL head coaches: Ray Rhodes, Jon Gruden, Andy Reid, Dick Jauron and Steve Mariucci. Moving on past Walsh's first barrage of coaches we then see guys like Mike Shanahan, Jeff Fisher, Brian Billick, Jon Gruden, Mike McCarthy, Steve Mariucci, Andy Reid, Gary Kubiak and both Jim and John Harbaugh. But his first NFL opportunity came in 2004 as a quality control coach under Jon Gruden with Tampa Bay. Along with Walsh, the primary offensive pioneer of the 1980s. Given his success at Alabama, Saban is known as a college coach, but he also spent several years as an NFL assistant, most crucially as Bill Belichick’s defensive coordinator with the early-1990s Browns. He was one of six future head coaches on Reid’s first Eagles staff in 1999. For anyone who wants to argue that Hank Stram is the greatest coach to ever live has a legit reason. After a brief stretch at the high school level, he hitched his NFL coaching career to Reid, too. He spent five seasons with New England, eventually becoming offensive coordinator. Belichick’s greatest influence is his late father, late longtime Navy assistant and scout Steve Belichick. But his earliest influence is Bill Parcells, under whom he coached in 2005 and 2006 in Dallas. Kiffin has never been an NFL head coach, but he has been so influential that it’s hard to tell the story of NFL coaching without him. Vrabel played eight seasons under Bill Belichick, but his biggest NFL coaching mentor was Belichick disciple Bill O’Brien, for whom Vrabel coached four seasons in Houston. Holmgren became the San Francisco 49ers’ quarterbacks coach in 1986, which made him one of the most prominent disciples of Bill Walsh and the West Coast offense. As for his coaching tree pre-Bill Walsh, Gillman influenced Chuck Noll, Al Davis, Chuck Knox, Dick Vermeil, George Allen and Don Coryell. Schottenheimer also once worked for John McVay, the grandfather of Rams Coach Sean McVay. “When you’re an assistant and you’ve been on a few staffs, you’re on all kinds of trees,” former 49ers and Lions head coach Steve Mariucci said. Assistant coaches under Steve Mariucci who became NCAA or NFL head coaches: 1. Washington Post, Bill Belichick may be the NFL’s best modern coach, but Andy Reid is its most influential. His family became close friends with the Grudens, and Sean McVay started in professional coaching as a low-level assistant on Jon Gruden’s Tampa Bay staff. Garrett’s most important connection is Jerry Jones, the owner he impressed as a career backup quarterback with the Cowboys. A former Bears linebacker, Rivera started as a low-level defensive assistant in Chicago before coaching linebackers in Philadelphia under Andy Reid for five years. Payton on the other hand has five non-losing seasons in six years with the New Orleans Saints and is 41-13 including the postseason from 2009 through 2011. As the Cleveland Browns head coach from 1963 through 1970, Collier never had a losing season, went to four NFL Championship games while winning it in 1964 (the city's last pro sports title) and finished with a 76-34-2 record over eight seasons. Below I have compiled a list of current NFL coaching trees. While Mora, Jr., is the only clear branch from the elder Mora's tree, Capers, Del Río, and Haslett also have ties to this coaching tree. I nearly listed Jauron under the Bill Parcells Tree, though, because of his four years as Tom Coughlin's defensive coordinator in Jacksonville. Tom Holmoe: California(1997–2001) 3. Known as Papa Bear, George Halas is easily one of the greatest coaches to ever live. Nancy Gay. Marty Schottenheimer's coaching tree isn't all that big, however, his influence upon coaches who were under him have seen much success. Murphy was a highly popular coach with contacts around the nation and in Canada. Jim Boylen (Chicago Bulls, Utah) Tom Crean (Georgia, Indiana, Marquette) Mike Garland (Cleveland State) Brian Gregory (South Florida, Georgia Tech, Dayton) Marty Mornhinweg , an assistant hired later in Holmgren's tenure at Green Bay, also became an NFL head coach, and was previously an offensive coordinator under Reid with the Philadelphia Eagles from 2006 to 2012. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. The latter two being part of the Walsh coaching tree. Troy Taylor: Sacramento State(2019–present) 7. ... Steve Mariucci, Marty Mornhinweg and Brad Childress. Pederson was a backup quarterback under Andy Reid. During his tenure with the Cowboys, Landry led Dallas to five Super Bowls and won two of them. But Gase’s career began when Nick Saban hired him as an assistant at LSU, and Gase still credits Saban as his primary guide. Brown may not have had 10-plus assistants have success after him, but the four mentioned have quite a resume. Jim Zorn. So, here's to power ranking the best coaching trees in NFL history. Holmgren graduated from the Bill Walsh coaching tree but planted his own tree in Green Bay. Coaches that had NFL success after him were Mike Ditka, Dan Reeves and Raymond Berry. Among those four coaches are three Super Bowl appearances and one where two met each other (Wisenhunt and Tomlin in Super Bowl XLIII). From 2011 through 2015, Gase coached under John Fox in Denver and Chicago. DeWayne Walker: New Mexico State(2009–2012) When Mike Holmgren was coach of the Green Bay Packers (1992-98), he had a great staff with people like Andy Reid, Jon Gruden and Steve Mariucci. Andy Reid, Mike Sherman, Steve Mariucci, Brad Childress, John Harbough, Marty Morningwed, Jim Zorn. Other than Mike Ditka though, who's also part of Tom Landry's coaching tree, there's George Allen (also part of Sid Gillman's tree). Beginning in pro football with the Los Angeles Rams in 1955, Gillman also coached the Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers and Houston Oilers. Still, Schottenheimer's impact on those after him is quite impressive. Every head coach had influences on his way to the top. And before that, he spent two years on Marvin Lewis’s staff as the Bengals’ defensive backs coach. Marty Schottenheimer's coaching tree isn't all that big, however, ... Jon Gruden, Mike McCarthy, Steve Mariucci, Andy Reid, Gary Kubiak and both Jim and John Harbaugh. He is part of the highly successful Mike Holmgren coaching tree, which … Don Shula not only played for Paul Brown but also for Ewbank from 1953-1956. Shula would go on to win 328 games and two Super Bowls.
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