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Dennis Green among Sessler's 10 favorite coaches
Plenty of discussions crop up around which NFL coaches are the best in league history.
NFL.com's Marc Sessler took a different approach recently, simply selecting his personal 10 favorite coaches. He included the disclaimer that he only qualified coaches he's watched during his lifetime.
Among Sessler's 10 favorites was the late Dennis Green, who served as the Vikings head coach from 1992-2001 and as the Cardinals head coach from 2004-06. Green became the second African-American head coach in the modern NFL and third overall when he was hired by Minnesota. He was inducted posthumously into the Vikings Ring of Honor in 2018, joining legendary coaches Bud Grant and Jerry Burns.
Sessler wrote the following of Green:
Green is happily remembered for one of the juiciest outbursts in football lore, howling at a room of Cardinals beat writers after a loss to Chicago in 2006: "The Bears are who we thought they were! ... If you want to crown them, then crown their ass! But they are who we thought they were. And we let them off the hook." Green should be recalled for much more, though, winning 113 games over 13 seasons and overseeing one of the NFL's friskiest squads in the '98 Vikings. What he accomplished should have ushered in new waves of black head coaches, but that unjust aspect of the sport remains unsolved.
The other nine coaches on Sessler's list were Zimmer's friend and mentor Bill Parcells, Marty Schottenheimer, Jerry Glanville, Sam Wyche, Bill Walsh, Joe Walton, Marv Levy, Jimmy Johnson and Bill Belichick.