Originally posted by glorydayz:
I know what you mean man, I watched Bill Walsh take a 2-14 ('79) team to super bowl champions ("81) in 2 years. This was back when football was tough and offered no special protections to players including QB's. There was no such thing as free agency the way we know it today, so he had to build through the draft and come up with schemes and concepts and drill it into the guys around him. The draft was like 2 million rounds long and he chose great players like Dwight Clark (2x Super Bowl Champion) in the 10th round and Jesse Sapolu (4x Super Bowl Champion) in the 11th round. Even when Coach Walsh left the team they continued to win because his hand picked successor kept winning. The team one for nearly 2 decades!!!
Thats the 49ers standard, and thats what we will always be compared to. This new "almost won" culture is exactly what Coach Walsh guided guys away from. Its a new day, but the standard doesn't change.
Oh, and Walsh made it look easy.
Walsh is Walsh dude. He's one of one. That's not a standard it was f**king decades ago in a league with no cap space and vastly different rules. You could spend all the money you waned on players. They needed to SPEND to get sanders in 94.
Michael Jordan never lost a finals….doesn't mean any other basketball player after him sucked.
So according to you Montana, rice, any of the players you meantioned don't matter in the outcome. It's the HC who gets the credit for winning and losing. That's part of your problem in your debate.
the other problem is if he's not Walsh then he stinks…there's a f**king ton of room there with a ton of nuance &substance to discuss and you're being ignorant about it. IMO that's why no one is buying your complaining about having a damn good HC.
[ Edited by NYniner85 on Jun 6, 2024 at 3:05 PM ]