WebHis coaching tree has combined for a record of 329-262-0 in the regular season and 20-14 in the playoffs during their thirty-seven seasons as head coach after serving on his coaching staffs. Once defenses start to adjust to the timing and route combinations of the regular naked boot play action, the Shanahan lineage will change up the play by adding a leak route from the play side shallow across the backside formation then down the numbers. McVay was a key member of a strong offensive staff assembled by then-Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan. Regardless of who Skoliders were cheering for on Super Bowl Sunday, itd be pretty tough not to be fired up at the thought of OConnell leaning on Justin Jefferson in critical moments the way the Rams relied on Kupp when they needed him most. During his time leading the Broncos the team won the Super Bowl in 1997 and 1998. On a per-season basis, Walshs tree is pretty middle of the pack, ranking sixth among all trees on this list in seasons per conference championship (11.5), and seventh in seasons per Super Bowl title (23). Copyright 2012-2023 Pro Football History.com. Great coach. Rick Forzano, just three. WebWhat makes this coaching tree successful? For example, while Andy Reid can be traced back to Bill Walsh, he only ever worked under Bill Walshs disciple Mike Holmgren. Old article on the coaching tree of Mike Shanahan -link. Furthermore, I will not be including coaches that came in the second generation of coaching trees. [Schefter] - Former Monday Night Football analyst Brian Griese is leaving ESPN to become the Quarterbacks Coach for the 49ers, sources tell Seth Wickersham and me. Coming into this past season, the Shanahan/McVay and Reid coaching trees were tied with six head coaches that held jobs in the NFL. Sure, Landry and Lombardi may not have the same accolades as Belichick, but they accomplished so much in such a comparatively short amount of time. Neither ever earned a conference championship. Shanahans tree is the only tree to not have a single coach with a sub-.500 record. Not one other coach has above a .500 record. Throughout the 21st Century, the NFLs most popular coaching trees came from either Bill Belichick or Andy Reid. Before that, the Texans staff of the late 2000s birthed many of the coaches currently serving as head coaches or in bigger non-head coaching roles. Shanahans top protg, Mike McDaniel, brings arguably the leagues best offense featuring a host of former 49ers to town on Sunday in what figures to be an extremely entertaining matchup. Shanahans tree is the only tree to not have a single coach with a sub-.500 record. Got it? Mike Shanahan , during his first year of working with the Broncos (and QB John Elway) criticized Elway for his conditioning. Thankfully for Dungy, all of his subpar disciples didnt last too long as head coaches. But hes able to get up and sprint to the end zone for the touchdown. The Green Bay coach is also Kyle Shanahan, San Francisco 49ers. Hackett worked with Mikes brother, Matt, in Green Bay. Apologies for the whiners site. During his time as head coach, seven assistant coaches, (Art Shell, Gary Kubiak, Anthony Lynn, Matt LaFleur, Sean McVay, Kyle Shanahan, and Mike McDaniel) on his coaching staff were hired as head coaches across the league. The next head coach of the Vikings linked up with McVay for the first time before the 2020 season. For starters, this opens up a lot of room for their quick backs to rip off massive runs. Taking over the Giants for Howell was likely a very daunting task, yet Sherman took a 6-4-2 squad in Howells last year to a combined 33-8-1 record over the next three years. McDaniel worked under Shanahan, McVay, and Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur during their time together in Washington from 2011-13. Svares presence under Howells tree doesnt diminish Landrys and Lombardis accomplishments enough though to warrant dropping this tree down the list. Im willing to look past that discrepancy. The runner can essentially take three different paths and make his read based on where the defenders control their gaps. Three were courtesy of Bill Walsh of course, but Weeb Ewbank, who was a head coach for 12 years before the first Super Bowl managed to win one as well during the 1969 season as the head coach of the New York Jets. After sitting out one season, Shanahan came back with the Washington Redskins as the teams head coach and vice president of football operations. Shanahans time in Los Angeles was extremely tumultuous as he was not popular with either the players or owner Al Davis. Kyles got his own tree starting with Mike McDaniel in Miami, Michaels noted. The current Kyle Shanahan contract makes the San Francisco 49ers head coach the 7th highest-paid head coach in the NFL this season, tied with Las Vegas Raiders coach Josh McDaniels.The 49ers headman still has three years left on the current Kyle Shanahan contract, but if he makes the Super Bowl, the team might rip up the current What set the Shanahan lineage of coaches apart was the addition of the wide/outside-zone running scheme. NFL head coaches under whom Mike Shanahan has served: Barry Switzer, University of Oklahoma (1975) Dan LaFleur found himself at Notre Dame as the quarterbacks coach, but his brother Mike would take an offensive assistant job with Shanahan in Cleveland. In the clip, you can see Packers free safety Adrian Amos (No. As Packers cornerback Kevin King (No. Web25% of the NFL has a Head Coach that derives from the Mike Shanahan coaching tree. This tree contains three coaches with records of .250 or worse, including Cam Cameron, whose 1-15 record (.063) is the worst of any coach on any tree in this list. The second seed in the NFC also has a Mike Shanahan tree member or more realistically a Shanahan branch since Kyle brought this coach with him to Washington from Houston with Matt LaFleur. Kyle Shanahan has spawned a number of talented HCs Kyle Shanahan comes from an illustrious coaching family tree, largely thanks to his legendary father, Mike Shannan. While its true he has a multitude of great disciples John Harbaugh, Sean McDermott, Ron Rivera, Doug Pederson who are still making an impact in the NFL today, hes also created a multitude of duds. Shanahans biggest influence is his father, Mike, for whom he worked for four seasons in Washington. Old article on the coaching tree of Mike Shanahan -link. 10) Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M Head Coach The New York Giants are headed towards their second straight losing season and third straight season without making the playoffs, putting head coach Tom Coughlin firmly on the hot seat. One of the hallmarks of a great coach is their tree. Personal Information Every family has to have their odd man out, right? Gruden was the coach that first allowed him to become a coordinator. A good chunk of who he is, after all, comes from being part of the gigantic Mike Shanahan coaching tree. WebView the profiles of professionals named "Michael Shanahan" on LinkedIn. Confirmed Combine meetings hint at a focus on the defensive spine. Coaching tree. Since some of the coaches on these trees coached before the Super Bowl era, I had to only count seasons in which they coached in the Super Bowl era into consideration for that stat, obviously. Davis then won the NFL MVP award. Shanahans top protg, Mike McDaniel, brings arguably the leagues best offense featuring a host of former 49ers to town on Sunday in what figures to be an extremely entertaining matchup. Shanahans biggest influence is his father, Mike, for whom he worked for four seasons in Washington. The current Kyle Shanahan contract makes the San Francisco 49ers head coach the 7th highest-paid head coach in the NFL this season, tied with Las Vegas Raiders coach Josh McDaniels.The 49ers headman still has three years left on the current Kyle Shanahan contract, but if he makes the Super Bowl, the team might rip up the current But when the pressure was at its highest, the Rams got the ball back trailing 20-16 from their own 21-yard line and 6:13 remaining in the game. It starts with Gary Kubiak, a longtime colleague of Mike Shanahan, giving Kyle Shanahan his first job as an NFL position coach in 2006. The 2013 Washington coaching staff was unreal. They couldve been an O-line coach or defensive backs coach, but they had to serve at least one season under the star on top. After hauling in three catches for 38 yards following the fourth-down conversion to put the Rams in scoring position, Kupp remained the primary target. McVay stayed with Washington following the 2014 season and was promoted to be their offensive coordinator for the until 2017. To counter that, Shanahan became Elway's lifting and running partner prior to the 1984 season. Reid has had 11 assistants become head coaches during his career. The team finished 9-2-1 overall and third in the SEC with a number 6 national ranking to boot. Defenders caught in the mix have to turn and locate the receivers after running full speed for 7-8 yards. After that, Shanahan accepted the offensive coordinator position with the San Francisco 49ers. The other five all have records under .400. Shanahan would spend a total of four seasons in Aside from the two Ive already mentioned, only one other head coach managed to reach a Super Bowl: Raymond Berry. Please logout and login again. The only really great head coach Belichick ever had on his coaching staff was Brian Flores, and we all know how that turned out. Shanahan had great success as a coach, with two Super Bowl wins with the Broncos, plus one as the 49ers offensive coordinator. He took the reins of a team that had gone 5-10 in 1987. WebShanahan's success with the 49ers earned him a head coaching spot once more, this time back in Denver with the Broncos beginning in 1995. Shanahans three seasons as the 49ers offensive coordinator were very successful. Its just a solid, jolly centerpiece that embodies the Christmas spirit. Kubiak is now the offensive coordinator for the Vikings. WebView the profiles of professionals named "Michael Shanahan" on LinkedIn. Shanahan finished his first two seasons with a disappointing 11-21 record, but a seven-game win streak won the Redskins the 2010 NFC East division title, the teams first since 1999. Thats just how it is. In 2015, he won a Super Bowl with Peyton Manning as the quarterback. Somehow he never made the playoffs either, which I find hard to believe with a record like that. Has Saleh extended his search beyond the Shanahan coaching tree? Two weeks later, the 49ers called the same concept but out of shotgun 11 personnel (one running back, one tight end, three receivers) and used Kittle on a jet motion to add an element of deception. Finally, while there are some trees with shining branches that stand out among the rest, I am looking at every branch on every tree. If the defense drops deep and stays in two-high or quarters, the intermediate crosser should be open. Old article on the coaching tree of Mike Shanahan -link. As the defense is rolling their coverage and running with the crossing routes, no one picks up the leak receiver (tight end Fred Davis #86) and he goes for 62 yards. NFL head coaches under whom Mike Shanahan has served: Barry Switzer, University of Oklahoma (1975) Dan Reeves, Denver Broncos (19841987, 1991) George Seifert, San Francisco 49ers (19921994) Assistant coaches under Mike Shanahan who became NFL head coaches: 10) Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M Head Coach Seasons: 65 sixth among the other HCs on this list. For every Reid wunderkind there comes a troubled child. The Shanahan influence/coaching tree is dominating the NFL divisional round if you take a close look. Skip forward two decades, and Mike Shanahans coaching tree is finally starting to blossom. Hes the only coach on the list with a sub-.500 winning percentage with a 17-28 record. He had an impact on defensive coaches, too. With what these young, hotshot head coaches have accomplished in the NFL in a short amount of time, its easy to understand why the Vikings and Dolphins wanted in. He came to prominence as the offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons, whose offense in 2016 led the league in points scored and helped the team reach Super Bowl LI.Shanahan became So lets take a look at how the current NFL head coaches of the Shanahan/McVay tree stack up against other current head coaches from the Reid and Belichick trees. * 21+ (19+ CA-ONT) (18+ NH/WY). WebKyle Michael Shanahan (born December 14, 1979) is an American football coach who is the head coach for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). The next time Shanahan and the Broncos made the playoffs was 2003, when they lost in the wild card round again, this time 41-10 to the Indianapolis Colts. In 2019, Kubiak took over as an offensive consultant with the Vikings and became the offensive coordinator in 2020 with Kevin Stefanskis departure to the Cleveland Browns (yet another team implementing the same scheme). Interestingly enough, this group of colleagues has found themselves squaring off against one another in the postseason on four different occasions since 2020. In fact, Parcells managed to produce two other elite head coaches Sean Payton and Tom Coughlin. Kyle Shanahan coaching tree: 49ers head coach has budding branches, following in dad's footsteps Joe Rivera 3 min read (Getty Images) The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. They won a conference championship (including pre-Super Bowl AFL/NFL championships) once every 5.4 seasons nearly twice as often as Parcells tree has (once every nine seasons). Although he never won an NFL Championship, his Giants were consistently one of the best teams in the NFL prior to the Super Bowl erawhere they went 15-26-1 across three seasons. 644. r/49ers. McDaniel worked under Shanahan, McVay, and Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur during their time together in Washington from 2011-13. Some coaches wouldve punted from their 30 with three timeouts. Yes, and lots of it! Shanahan would spend a total of four seasons in After three seasons, Shanahan returned to Denver for his third stint with the team, this time as head coach. Solid tree, but not enough to crack the top five. The next week, Florida met Georgia, also ranked number 4 and lost that game 10-9. As the offensive coordinator for the Broncos John Elway won Most Valuable Player. He led the Packers to a 13-3 record his first year with the team and became the first Packers coach in history to win 10 games, make the playoffs, and win the NFC North. Maybe its an incredible eye for coaching talent. AZ, CO, CT, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, (select parishes), MD, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, VA, WV, WY, CA-ONT only.Eligibility restrictions apply. This angle of Matthew Stafford's no-look pass. He came to prominence as the offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons, whose offense in 2016 led the league in points scored and helped the team reach Super Bowl LI.Shanahan became Despite coaching for 71 seasons, Landrys disciples only amassed one Super Bowl. Like Shanahan, McVay began his career as a head-coach in 2017. LaFleur , Taylor, McDaniels and Kyle Shanahan have all assembled excellent coaching staffs that In 1980, Shanahan, as the offensive coordinator, helped the team to an 8-4 record and a fourth-place finish in the SEC. Shanahan's coaching tree doesn't just consist of today's creative offensive minds. Maybe its luck. The only real sore spot on the tree is Bruce Coslet, who managed to coach for nine years despite never managing better than a .500 record and reaching the playoffs only once. After the defense commits to the flood and sinks underneath the corner, the receiver breaks his route back across the field toward the far post. Hes the only coach on the list with a sub-.500 winning percentage with a 17-28 record. I dont care how great an offensive coordinator or defensive genius these people were. But if Harbaugh was all the coaching rage in 2011, nothing surpasses the Bill Walsh lineage of coaches being plucked from arguably the most consistent and evolved offense in NFL history. For starters, this opens up a lot of room for their quick backs to rip off massive runs. According to Finlay, McVay has gone on the record to say he's a product of Gruden's coaching tree, not Shanahan's. NFL head coaches under whom Mike Shanahan has served: Barry Switzer, University of Oklahoma (1975) Dan It appears the swelling in the Purdys elbow has gone down enough to undergo surgery. Bill Cowher, Tony Dungy, Bruce Arians, and Mike McCarthy make up everything great about this tree. Re: Old article on the coaching tree of Mike Shanahan -link. Matthew Stafford, Sean McVay, and OConnell made a conscious decision about how they were going to win this game. One variation the Shanahan tree will throw at the defense if they sense a naked boot and cheat back across or take away the intermediate crossers is to run a corner post behind the defense. The next head coach of the Vikings linked up with McVay for the first time before the 2020 season. During practice, he got hit so hard that it ruptrued a kidney. Furthermore, although Walshs disciples won three Super Bowls, two of them were from George Seifert, who didnt really have to do much. Odds & lines subject to change. Kyle Shanahan seemingly has a member of his coaching staff poached every single year as teams look for a new play-caller and head coach. Once Mike Shanahan retired following the 2013 season, the Redskins elected to go with Jay Gruden as their next head coach. Because at the end of the day, Belichick has just a single postseason victory (1994 Cleveland Browns) to his name without Tom Brady as his quarterback. 644. r/49ers. Dungys tree has a better regular season record though, and despite coaching for eleven fewer seasons than Reids tree, they also have one more conference championship. That said, if Belichick was the only successful Parcells pupil, Parcells wouldnt be so far up this list. Behind an emerging young running back, Terrell Davis, they improved to finish the next season 13-3, but lost in the first round of the playoffs 30-27 to the Jaguars. Unless McVay retires, which was rumored ahead of this season, before the inevitable toll calls, he might drop below the .500 threshold within three or four years. The Saints may have been prepared to see something like the corner post, and Shanahan still stayed one step ahead by utilizing a different personnel grouping and out of shotgun. If he gets fired, who are the top candidates to take his place? And when you remove Reids postseason accomplishments, his assistants have a slightly lower combined winning percentage than Shanahan and McVays assistants at .525. A good chunk of who he is, after all, comes from being part of the gigantic Mike Shanahan coaching tree. Ive looked at each trees regular season win percentage, postseason appearances, postseason win percentage, conference championship totals, and Super Bowl wins, and am using those for my credentials to determine the order of this list. They coached 64 seasons in total, but only 52 in the Super Bowl era, earning four titles in that span, or one every 13 years (fourth-best). Before he was a head coach, Shanahan served as an assistant coach for Jon Gruden, Gary Kubiak, Kubiak had worked most of career, both playing and coaching, with Shanahans father Mike during his time with the Denver Broncos and the San Francisco 49ers. What is now simply known as The Drive, John Elway led the Broncos 98 yards in five minutes and two seconds against the Cleveland Browns to score and tie the game with just thirty seven seconds left. They are also returning several players from injury, which can only help against the 49ers. The outside zone is similar to the inside zone, but instead of the offensive line getting vertical in the inside zone, they run their defenders laterally toward the sideline. WebMichael Edward "Mike" Shanahan (born August 24, 1952) is an American profession football coach., best known as the head coach of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) from 1995 to 2008. Saleh said he's not married to the idea of hiring a Kyle Shanahan disciple, as he did with LaFleur. Most playoff wins in Denver Broncos history (8), College Attended: Eastern Illinois Panthers, Date of Birth: Sunday, August 24, 1952 (70 years old), Oak Park, Illinois. 644. r/49ers. Gary Kubiak, Art Shell, Anthony Lynn, Matt LaFleur, Mike McDaniel, Sean McVay, Kyle Shanahan. In order to effectively lead a locker room of men from all different walks of life, you have to prioritize a player-driven culture that relies on building genuine relationships throughout the building. For this, Mike Shanahan hired Alex Gibbs in 1995 to be his assistant head coach and offensive line coach when the elder Shanahan took over as the Denver Broncos head coach. I do think that if McVay wants to return to key offensive concepts that he learned he might try to return to people he knows who can teach that system. Be the first one to comment on this story. However, OConnell is a new branch on this highly sought-after coaching tree. Coaching tree. Thats not bad at all. Longevity? WebKyle Shanahan Coaching Tree. Furthermore, although the Reid tree has consistently reached the postseason (26 appearances), they struggle mightily against other playoff competition. WebCoaching Tree. Join. Yikes! After his two seasons in Flagstaff, Shanahan moved back close to home to his alma mater, Eastern Illinois, as the Panthers offensive coordinator. Mike Shanahan knew how to coach _ and how to hire and develop his staff. In his second season, McVay led the Rams to the Super Bowl, where they fell short to the Patriots, 13-3. If he gets fired, who are the top candidates to take his place? For his expertise in that magical scheme, Shanahan was hired as the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers on February 6, 2017. That number should be 12, but for some reason, teams refuse to hire Eric Bieniemy (pictured above with Reid). Personal Information Reid makes up one-third of all Holmgren disciples in seasons coached (24 of 72), over half of all postseason appearances (18 of 35 this is counting this year since the Chiefs have clinched a playoff spot), and nearly two-thirds of their playoff wins (19 of 30). The Green Bay coach is also
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