Coaching tree

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Bill Walsh's coaching tree produced many head coaches who won the Super Bowl .

A coaching tree is a family tree that expresses the relationships between head coaches and their respective assistants in American football . The basic idea is that the tactics in offense and defense are so complex that the respective employees understand the respective subtleties only in their daily work with the head coach. When the assistants themselves become head coaches, they often adopt the game philosophies of their mentors, so that their ideas "propagate" like in a family.

A frequent coaching tree relationship is that between the head coach and his offensive coordinator or defensive coordinator , but also that between the head coach and the other assistant coaches (quarterback coach, lineman coach, special teams coach, etc.) is possible.

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The coaching tree of three-time Super Bowl winner Bill Walsh contains many successful head coaches. Mike Holmgren and George Seifert also won the Super Bowl among his assistant coaches who worked directly under him . Holmgren in turn employed a. a. Andy Reid , the two-time NFL Coach of the Year (2000 and 2002), whose assistant John Harbaugh also won the Super Bowl. Seifert's former offensive coordinator Mike Shanahan is a two-time Super Bowl winner. Walsh's other assistant coaches included a. Paul Hackett and Dennis Green . Hackett, in turn, mentored Jon Gruden , and Green mentored Tony Dungy and Brian Billick : both Gruden, Dungy and Billick each won the Super Bowl. Dungy, in turn, was the mentor of Mike Tomlin , who also won the title.

At Walsh, the coaching tree is interesting from a tactical point of view, as he was known for his innovative West Coast Offense . Both Seifert, Shanahan and Gruden won their Super Bowls with the same attacking tactic, and they in turn carried his ideas throughout the NFL. Walsh helped Dungy become the first African American head coach to win the Super Bowl.

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