it’s videos like this why we need an NBA Throwback, NHL Throwback, MLB Throwback, hell even a MLS Throwback. y’all are too good to stick with ONE sport.
It would be great if we could have channels like that. One thing the NFL has done a really good job of over the years is archiving footage of their games through NFL Films, and that makes videos like these easier to put together for subjects from the 60’s onward in particular.
When it comes to reviewing history, the NFL’s excellent record keeping makes it much easier to explain than other leagues. Although the NFL had always had the best entertainment/media out of all the sports leagues imo.
@@NFLVaultBro the team you guys got making these docs and pulling this footage is the best in the business. You guys are LEAPS AND BOUNDS ahead of other major pro sports leagues w this type of content. Please phone Goodell and force him to give y’all raises Lmfao you guys deserve it
Nah bro this is literally why the nfl is goated just putting out videos like this to entertain us despite other leagues not doing this like I love these videos and I love the nfl
it's like this channel is filling the void the Sabol's left behind i grew up with NFL Network and NFL Films on in the background every day, this channel is the closest i've felt to that since then. Thanks for this elite content guys!
I'm a long time NFL historian, this is a fantastic video. Unbelievably well done. I expected to see Jack Pardee as one of George Allen's direct moons. A lot of coaches were included who only had a handful of seasons (Kotite included). Pardee is a big omission. He got the Bears to their first playoffs in over a decade in 1977. He moved to Washington to succeed Allen. After a stint doing the run and shoot in the USFL and University of Houston, he coached the Oilers to four straight playoff berths. Unfortunately, I remember him for two horrible choke jobs. As a lifelong Redskins fan, the 35-34 loss in Dallas in 1979 was so gutting that John Riggins took the next year off. And then there was the Oilers loss to Buffalo in the AFC playoffs after having a 35-3 lead. Still, he deserves mention in Allen's tree. He finished 87-77 in the NFL.
Brian Billick was really awesome to me cause yes he won the Super Bowl Championship in 2000 with the Ravens but back in 1998 he'd became the Offensive Coordinator with the Minnesota Vikings and when Randy Moss was a 1st Round 21st pick he changed everything at the time too! 5:55
Best part of being the owner is you can't be fired and can always hire yourself. Halas "retired" four times, twice to serve in the military, and once because he got burned out and the fourth because he got old. Think he won championships in all 3 of his stints as HC. When he did his second stint as HC after coming back from the military in 1932, he took over as coach so they could save some money, not paying a coach during the great depression.
I seen one NFL Films episode on Halas and he was quite the guy. His determination and drive kept the Bears afloat when most people around him faltered or left. In the early years the film said he had his hand either in or basically ran and was responsible for every aspect of the team . At one time or another Papa Bear was Owner , Head Coach, being responsible for hiring , overseeing and when the time came firing his assistants , their contracts and regular payroll , same thing with the players whom he likely scouted and drafted or picked up off of the waiver wire, the players uniforms, the teams travel director , daily practice , the teams advertising and ticket sales , security , the parking lot attendants and in & on & on & on etc etc. They said that they would be at practice which like all teams always had a crowd around hoping to catch a Bears practice for their own cheap thrill entertainment. So there is always dozens and dozens of people just hanging out . The said at practice , he could take a moment and look around at the on lookers and could spot someone who was new out of the regular crowd and either himself or some Bears employee would most over and strike up a conversation with the new visitor and could tell by the conversation wether they were a spy from another team , or just a harmless wide eyed first time visitor. He was always much nicer to the visitor , than he was to a busted spy . They say he knew all the coaches in the league , all of the referees. and a hell of a lot of the people in the stands and was very well liked and known down at the Fire and Police houses. Yet with all of that , he had time before a game with the Packers , one year to go to the Green Bay Lockerroom a mere few minutes before kickoff. He knocked on the door , answered by Paul Horning. Surprised by who the knocker was , Horning , he asked is there something I can help you with Papa Bear ? The Coach whipped back I need to speak with Coach Lombardi , it’s very very important , so Paul ran off and got his Coach who he followed back the way he came to see the 2 Coaches talk . And as Lombardi greeted Papa Bear , the Chicago Coach said “” Vince! , I hope you have your team ready to play today , because we’re going to kick your ass . ! And then walk off . He was an amazing man . The piece also told of an incident during one game were Halas thought that refs call was no good and hurt the Bears and denied Chicago a first down . So Halas jumped the refs shit big time which was nothing unusual. Halas knowing the ref personally , yelled out , “ hey so n so , you fuckin stink ! The ref , who heard Halas plain as day , while both teams were in their huddles , walks over to the ball , picks it up and walks off 15 yards against the Bears point ing out that it was a unsportsmanlike penalty on Chicago . The play had the penalty getting the Bears further away from the Bears sidelines. The ref sets the ball down , then looks over at the Chicago sideline , and looks directly at Coach Halas and says , “” hey Halas , how do I smell from here ! It is also worth pointing out that George Halas was responsible for drafting some of the best players to ever play the game , like Willie Galimore, Sid Luckman , George Blanda, Bobby Layne, Gale Sayers , Ed O Bradovich, Dick Butkus , & Walter Payton and a blimp hanger full of others . Is it No wonder why he is know as The Godfather of Pro Football !
This is the most mind stretching video I've ever watched on this channel. It's so wild how every coach is connected somehow. Well done! This is what RU-vid is all about!
Paul Brown, won National Titles at the high school level at Massillon, college level at Ohio State, and pro titles at Cleveland. Has there been another coach that has won it all at all three levels?
So, you & Paul Brown were the only one to not get any love, guess Brown ruined the Stram & Halas showering of praise as the real professors, what a A-hole
I feel like Sean MCvay is more of the Kyle Shannon tree. Same philosophy as Mike Shannon. He was the Washington OC in 2012 before he went to ATL in 2016
He started in 2008 under Jon Gruden in Tampa as an offensive assistant to Jay & Jon and was hired as Redskins tight ends coach then after Mike was fired promoted by Jay Gruden in Washington. After Mike Shanahan was fired Kyle left Washington to work under Kubiak as OC in Houston before OC in Cleveland then Atlanta, So McVay is correctly seeded under Jay as he became a HC after serving directly under Jay.
This is legit amazing!! I had been just thinking about this and didn't really find much detail other than the general trees, the Walsh tree and Belichick assistants flaming out. Keep this up please!
I have been putting it off watching this bc I saw the length but holy shit this is the greatest stuff ever man everybody needs to see this it's gold. 🥇
This is nice change in perspective from how we usually discuss coaching trees, where we really only acknowledge offensive guys who came from offensive guys and vice versa as a part of the same tree
Lovie smith was a LB coach for Dungy (eventually playing against him in SB XLI); He was more of a student of Tony's than Mike Martz's Lovie's SB appearing defense also infamously forced Dennis Green's postgame presser meltdown that same year of 2006
This video got me thinking about what if someone made an NFL version of those old school BBC war docuseries, but instead of stuffy historians, 90’s motion graphics, reenactments, and tactics breakdowns, it was HOF coaches and players, Jon Bois analytical visualization, NFL Films footage, and analysis of schematic evolution.
Surprised you don't have Seam McDermott off the Andy Reid tree. McDermott started as a scout for Reid''s Eagles and moved up the coaching ladder in Philly under Jim Johnson and Andy Reid. He was interim DC for Reid's Eagles after Johnson died (RIP). Rivera came from the Johnson/ Norv Turner tree, but was a peer of McDermott on those Eagles teams, well before Carolina. McDermott learned his defensive concepts from Jim Johnson, not Ron Rivera.....
I definitly put him in that tree. A lot of people dont like to put offensive and defensive coaches under the same tree but I think that is how you see where trees are most influential
This was a super interesting video I've always been curious to where these coaches came from and learned from. Perfect video and great history to know!
I think an online, interactive page with this map would be very cool. Exactly how it's laid out here, with the seperate systems and rings, lines connecting the coaches, but then you could click on each coach and it could bring up more details about them and related teams/coaches/players. It would be really cool if this could be connected to a similar interactive version of the quarterback tree from a previous video
This list is so innacurate, they got it wrong … McVay, Matt Lafluer, Kyle, worked under Mike Shannahan in DC In 2017, McVay got hired by Rams He hired Lafluer and O’Connell Kyle Shannahan hired Lafluers Brother, Mike McDaniels, Demeco, and Saleh. That’s the Mike Shannahan coaching tree right their, not Dennis Green
