Originally posted by Niners99:
Originally posted by Jd925:
Wow... Holmgren leading the votes... fantastic...
A lot of old school 49er fans here... awesome... he can bring back the true WCO...
Holmgren is proven...he has gone to 3 Superbowls with 2 different teams... Won one with the Packers... Had a bad break against the Steelers in another Superbowl with Seattle... and he can keep the Bill Walsh coaching tree alive!
I always wanted to have Holmgren take over for Bill Walsh in 1989, but the 49ers chose Seifert. Seifert and the Niners won the Superbowl that year, but that Superbowl was largely Walsh's team so I think Holmgren would have won it all as well. Seifert was way too conservative and wasn't really a keen strategist. The 49ers lost 3 NFC Championships in the next 4 years. I think Holmgren could have won multiple Superbowls with the Niners if he were coach instead of Seifert. Holmgren's Packers went on to beat Seifert's 49ers in 1995 & 1996 and won his own Superbowl in the 1996 season.
I also preferred Shanahan to Seifert and was really disappointed to see him go instead of Seifert after the Niners won in 1994. Shanahan went on to win a Superbowl for the 1997 and 1998 seasons with the Broncos. So that was a great stretch for coaches under the Bill Walsh tree. Seifert won in the 1994 season, Holmgren in 1996, and Shanahan in 1997 & 1998.
Finally instead of Mariucci, I always preferred Pete Carroll to take over for Seifert because he was one of the most effective and aggressive Niners DC's in 1995 & 1996 ... Carroll more than a decade later got his Superbowl.
With Holmgren we would really be able to continue on the 49er and Bill Walsh tradition...and that would be fantastic! 
We better invest in one of these then..
The Bill Walsh era is over. You cant dominate the NFL with his playbook anymore. Holmgren is old, and hes been out of coaching far too long to keep up with todays game.
People need to let the Walsh stuff go. Its not coming back. It was a period of time in the NFL where he caught the league off guard and dominated for nearly 2 decades. But, it has been figured out for the most part.
Hey he made the Superbowl in 2005.. that's not that long ago. I agree 66 is getting up there in age, but I think his wisdom will make up for it. Harbaugh's youthful spirit will remain with team, and the old man of the mountains will take us to the promised land. He spoke with Oakland and he's itching to get back it seems.
Holmgren is the highest up on the Bill Walsh tree and I would rank him higher up than George Seifert because he was the OC during the last Walsh championship years. He's the direct disciple of the highest of highness. The Genius.
Last 20 Seasons of Superbowl Champions.
1994 Seifert - Bill Walsh Tree
1995 Jimmy Johnson - His own tree
1996 Holmgren - Bill Walsh Tree
1997 Shanahan - Bill Walsh Tree
1998 Shanahan - Bill Walsh Tree
1999 Dick Vermeil - His own tree (Made Superbowl in 1980 w/ Eagles vs Raiders)
2000 Brian Billick - Bill Walsh Tree (under Dennis Green)
2001 Bill Belichick* - Parcells Tree
2002 Jon Gruden - Bill Walsh Tree (under Paul Hackett)
2003 Bill Belichick* - Parcells Tree
2004 Bill Belichick* - Parcells Tree
2005 Bill Cowher (under Schottenheimer.... Beat Holmgren - Bill Walsh Tree)
2006 Tony Dungy - Bill Walsh Tree (under Dennis Green)
2007 Mike Tomlin - Bill Walsh Tree (under Childress/Dungy.. also under Cowher)
2008 Tom Coughlin - Parcells Tree
2009 Sean Payton - Parcells Tree
2010 Mike McCarthy - Bill Walsh Tree (under Paul Hackett)
2011 Tom Coughlin - Parcells Tree
2012 John Harbaugh - Bill Walsh Tree (under Andy Reid)
2013 Pete Carroll - Bill Walsh Tree (under George Seifert)
Note*: Belichick used Walsh's: The Winning Edge as the Bible after the nuclear winter of his failed stint in Cleveland.
It seems Superbowls grow on trees....
[ Edited by Jd925 on Dec 11, 2014 at 6:29 PM ]
