Paul Brown is in there so King doesn't have to pick Belichick first.
Disagree. I think Belichick himself considers Brown the GOAT, believes he was the greatest contributor to the game that there ever was and would not want to be considered greater than him. But that's just my opinion. After that game on and he gets the #2 spot.
#1 Paul Brown. Father of football as we have known it before Roger Goodell ruins it for everyone. Belichick is the Brown devotee, he believes that Brown was the model coach/innovator and used him as his model for coaching and building a program/team/franchise.
#2 Bill Belichick He has managed to do what no one else can do, consistently create championship caliber teams for over 15 years in an era of exploding salaries and volatile movement of players due to free agency and cap limitations. 6 Super Bowl appearances. 4 Lombardi Trophy's, and 10 AFCCG Game appearances, and he's not done yet.
Now it gets controversial:
#3 Landry-FTR I hated the Cowboys my entire life but while Lombardi was a great motivator who had a great short run Landry was an innovator with a long long run of success, and his innovations revolutionized the game far more than Lombardi did.
#4 Bill Walsh Similar reason, Walsh had the Chamionship success and also took the game to new levels.
#5 George Halas One of the real founders of the game and an all time great on many levels. Halas and Brown were the two most influential people in the game over the first fifty-sixty years.
Shula, Noll, Lombardi, etc etc after that but that is my top five. I put more weight on their contributions to the game than just championships but it's just how I see that.
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