PATRIOTSFANINPA

I think Belichick is way ahead of any active NFL COACH but who is worthy of top 5 ranking after him?

Dungy has never been a top 5 coach to me,It always been Peyton and his receivers and Polian's draft selections carrying that team,Dungy proved in Tampa Bay that he is a product of the system

My ranking are as follows.....

1) Belichick - Alone at the top,And its not close
2) Reid - Has always handled issues with class whether it was T.O. or his sons situation
3) Shanahan - Has kept the team in contention nearly every season as except 2007
4) Gruden - Turned a Tampa Bay team into a respectable team ever since he got there
5) Del Rio - Has Jacksonville on the verge of becoming a very good team in the near future plus the quarterback move in early 2007 was very smart

Disco Volante

Just posted in the other thread, but....

He's worthy of his praise.

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Norv Turner
Eric Mangini
Marvin Lewis
Herm Edwards
Mike Nolan

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justinb

Peyton runs that team...dungy gets credit..but not much. he left bucs, bucs won...

i would say

1. Belicheck
2. Reid
3. Gruden
4. Dungy
5. Del Rio
6. McCarthy...moving on up

PATRIOTSFANINPA

No reggie wayne most of those early years,When Wayne came on the team and then James things changed big time...Dungy was not the difference IMO,It was guys like Wayne and James that turned it around.

If you want to give Dungy credit then maybe some of those great draft picks in the past few years were of his chosing as well as Polian's

aluminum seats

This is an interesting question--reading King this morning, someone emailed him about a "golden age" of coaching, and I didn't think much of it. But presented this way, who really is a top coach? Suddenly, to me, the number drops a LOT.

King mentioned "Mike Holmgren. Tony Dungy. Mike Shanahan. Eric Mangini. Mike Tomlin." I'm sorry, but this is not a particularly impressive group to me. Dungy, whatever his failings in the post-season (and they are real) is a good coach who puts his team in the position to succeed. Holmgren I guess is pretty good--Seattle does contend in the NFC, even though I never feel that they're a particularly dangerous team. But they did arguably actually win the Super Bowl a couple years back. Mike Shanahan--I know BB respects him, and God knows Denver always gives the Pats fits, but have they won a playoff game without Elway yet? They've won one, right? Eric Mangini, enough about him. I suppose Mike Tomlin shows promise.

I think I might put Mike McCarthy up there--seems he's been able to actually retrain Favre, and that must have been a nightmare. I just can't bring myself to overly praise Coughlin. I mean, top 5? This is hard.

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jcdavey

i'm going to sound crazy, but just for this season, norv's in the top 5

take away his past record like you would with a shanahan or a belichick, and he's looking good

an 11-5 HC (2-0 in the playoffs)


if you're talking the past 5 years, norv's well outside the top 5....well outside

Maroney TD

Nothing like bringing a 14-2 team to 11-5. Coach of the year.

sbcpats70

Coughlin
Holmgren
Fisher
Reid
Shanahan

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NEfan32

Jeff Fischer. He got Ten to the playoffs with an average team.

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