Tom Terrific 47 37.60%

Hoodie Bill 16 12.80%

Unsure 18 14.40%

Who cares about that poverty level team in Foxboro? 44 35.20%

The Cowboys were loaded on both sides of the ball.

Switzer (and George Seifert in SF) were both bad coaches but both of these teams had elite offenses AND defenses.
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Brian Billick and Trent Dilfer are a huge outlier
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Oh yeah, that's definitely one to think about. Although, they had a historically good defense as well.
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Brad Johnson and Jon Gruden were both terrible.
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Pretty good defense there too.
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They were really fucking good. Only gave up 196 points all year. They allowed 10 or less points in 11 of there 19 games including postseason. Number 1 in yards and points allowed. 3 1st team all pros on D.
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That D was otherworldly. In the post season they allowed
3, 10, 3, 7 points.
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So both of these teams had historically good defenses, like I said. :-)

In all seriousness, that seems to be the one way you can get around having a great QB/great coach is to have not just a great defense but an all-time great defense.
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Right. That’s the thing. I can’t think of one crappy QB that won a SB without an elite defense. Was the Redskins defense great when Doug Williams won it?
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Definitely a crappy QB. Wouldn’t call Billick a great coach but he was okay.

But that defense is in the discussion for the best of all time.
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From looking at PFR, no they weren't great.

They were just an all-around good team (4th scoring offense, 6th scoring defense) with a great head coach.

Plus Williams was actually the backup. Jay Schroeder was the starter going into the season.
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True but Schroeder wasn’t great either. Maybe that’s our outlier? Mediocre/decent Qb play, good but not elite defense, HOF coach.



Wait a second! Duh! How could I forget. The 2017 Eagles. Neither Wentz or Foles are great, although Wentz had a great year prior to injury and Doug is hardly a great coach and I don’t think their defense was anything real special that year. Lightning in a bottle is a real thing, after all
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I think those dominant OL teams can be included. Vermiel would have probably won one if he could get A stop. Sometime.
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Foles had a Flacco-esque outlier playoffs. Dude was filthy for a month.
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How did this thread age?
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