A Football Life - Bill Walsh

[@franciscocepeda8416]

Bill Walsh : The open heart surgeon of the NFL with the most meticulous precision ever known. RIP Coach Walsh

[@erickisel8668]

1980s NFL was the best era ever. The competition, the HOF players and coaches. It was some time to be a fan.

[@Ryan2022]

Have you watched in 2023? If you haven’t here is what to expect. Dropped passes and awful roughing calls. Players are getting worse

[@AdamWest1290]

I always said that the NFL in the 1980s 1990s and early 2000s was amazing, after the NFL lockout happened the NFL hasn't been the same and gotten worse and worse as the years gone by

[@Ryan2022]

@@AdamWest1290 I was watching highlights of Eric Dickerson the other day, and when I was done, I said what happened to all of the big fast players in the NFL? Are there any running backs now as big and as fast as Eric Dickerson was?

[@AdamWest1290]

@Ryan2022 not to mention players today are getting more hurt frequently it's like today players are made of glass nowadays and the NFL isn't even violent like it was back when defense can play defense

[@bradjames891]

I was a little kid in the 80s and I became an NFL fan at that point.

[@imsorrywho99]

This should be required viewing once a year. A huge thanks to Bill Walsh for the 49er dynasty. I’m fully aware of how spoiled I am due to his results - which makes me difficult to please with the modern day 49ers. I need to curb my expectations, nobody will ever match the legacy and results of Walsh.

[@imsorrywho99]

And thanks to Cincinnati, the Jets, Seahawks, and Rams for not hiring Walsh.

[@jasonpdsi]

Me too. I keep referring to Seifert getting fired after winning two super bowls and just 7 years at the helm as the standard by which we should judge Kyle, who has arguably been the most successful 49er coach since George lol

[@traviscummings9178]

Any player or fan who thinks that the little details don't matter in a game should watch this. Walsh's story is living proof that the little things can often be the difference between victory or defeat.

[@JAMESGANG-f5u]

45:56 The 80s NFL truly was a 4 way NFC WAR between the 49ers, Bears, Redskins and Giants. Walsh, Ditka(Ryan), Gibbs and Parcells.

[@timburr4453]

Not quite, because that decade includes the years 1980 and 1983, which were Super Bowls won by Tom Flores' Raiders of the AFC

[@dcbandnerd]

Four different men, four different personalities, four different minds that approached the game in their own, unique ways.

[@billveek9518]

I've gotten to meet a lot of these 49ers from my favorite team but never Walsh, I'm sorry I didn't. A great piece of art was this video.

[@bradjames891]

Good to hear from Dick Enberg in this documentary. None were classier in sports broadcasting than he. He had a gracious way of bragging those he covered up without coming across as pretentious or fake.

[@Ryan2022]

Enbergs’ style has grown on me since he passed. I now enjoy listening to games he called no cynicism just positivity around the game and it’s great players.

[@fboness368]

This is a truly unique and exceptional episode, just like the man, Coach Bill Walsh.

[@robertohernandezd.3455]

A Niners Brain, Thankz For All R.I.P. Genius!!!!!!!

[@wr8926]

Great Quote by Ronnie Lott @1:06:10 To get to greatness one has to overcome they're weakness. What I take away from Bill Walsh was his ability to overcome in the good times & the bad times. Jesus gave us all this ability through his Love at the Cross.

[@jp783]

To get to greatness, one has to overcome their weaknesses. Learning grammar will make you greater!

[@mikeysuzefour]

Bill Walsh expected nothing less than playing a perfect game--He will always be a coaching 'genius' IMHO! 🏈

[@tyzxcj34]

The greatest coach of all time! Period end of storey. He changed the game.

[@wk7060]

Bill Walsh, a great man and coach.

[@AdamWest1290]

Jimmy Johnson and Bill Walsh should've have won atleast 5 rings

[@histochronos]

Would have loved to see Bill Walsh/Steve Young 49ers vs JJ Cowboys in the 90's. JJ had a clear advantage over Seifert whereas Seifert had an edge of Switzer. So I think they'd be very evenly matched.

[@bloqk16]

A colleague of mine at a high-tech startup firm in Silicon Valley [California] in the 1980s . . . her husband's name was "Bill Walsh" and they resided in Menlo Park, California; with the 49ers coach Bill Walsh was living in neighboring Atherton, California. Turns out the Menlo Park 'Bill Walsh' was always getting evening phone calls from football players and coaches, as back then, the 49ers coach's home phone number [this was prior to cell-phones] was unlisted with the _directory assistance_ phone service; but the Menlo Park's Bill Walsh's home phone number was publicly listed.

[@toddm9501]

Raider fan here. Bill Walsh doesn't get the credi he should. He's the Mark Messier of the history in the NFL.

[@Ryan2022]

Walsh is on every list of greatest coaches of all time: Lombardi, Walsh, Gibbs, Shula, Landry, Noll, parcells, Brown, Belichick, Grant, Madden, Johnson

[@mikejones-py6tm]

class actttttttttttttttttttttttttt

[@karpetech]

This video brought back so many positive happy feelings. Love Montana, Walsh, Lott, Ring, Dwight. Great times. Durring the game against Dallas, I remeber having an arrogant Cowboy fan friend of my dad's giving me cramp up and down durring the game. When Dwight caught that pass. It was amazing for me.

[@RoofDoctorsJoanne]

My favorite coach was Don Shula as a kid. But Bill Walsh is probably the greatest i ever saw. Lombardi was before my time. A lot of great ones, but nobody was better than Walsh.

[@malbuff]

Beautiful.

[@Ryan2022]

I had a manager who liked creative tension always creating a sense of insecurity around the job you were doing. I can see why Bill Walsh’s players didn’t like him while he was their coach.

[@jp783]

That may be true, but it's difficult to compare any career to one in sports which is really a transitory one. It's probably not analogous. It's highly likely that while Walsh was scheming of the literal survival of his career, your boss was just a shithead.

[@Ryan2022]

@@jp783 this boss was not a nice person and was completely consumed with the job over everything else.

[@christophercox-ym2tv]

Sheer genius I remember those 49er’s team simply flawless

[@wk7060]

To be so successful as a coach and be such an easy going person.

[@bryancoats5328]

I see Bill Walsh and I think of Lombardi, in one way he used to say “we will relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we won’t catch it, but in the process we will grasp excellence” and in another way when Lombardi was asked “has this become a game for mad men and am I the craziest one of all?”

[@shoob7979]

Bill Walsh....the absolute bane of my football fandom existence as having my N.O. Saints come up short to win the NFC West Division Title in most years but actually 3 seasons where our 2nd place record would've won each of the other NFC divisions and I know certainly 2 of those seasons we failed to win division and 1 yr totally missed the post season as a Wildcard because of tie breaker scenarios. Respectively 12-4, 11-5 and 10-6 were all Saints 2nd place team records with the 10 win team home watching the playoffs instead of competing in them!!!! Especially after we SUCKED the first 20 years of the franchise and then we finally had a pulse and real hope to succeed then quickly remembered that we the Saints and Atlanta Falcons for some dumbass reason were in NFC West (Cowgirls and Cardinals fighting against division placement based on team location) yet not being remotely close to that area. Ultimately NFL smartened up a bit and placed teams in division's based on ea teams region of the country!!!!!

[@normp3273]

Before Seattle's legion of boom, New Orleans had the dome patrol. As a niner fan, they were absolutely terrifying.

[@elinovak3770]

The Bible of NFL history the Bill Walsh book it teaches you how to be a NFL head coach and inside the book Delivers you the proper information based on facts

[@thesentinelsfootballchanne3212]

I wonder why Kyle Shanahan hasn't read it?

[@dumisatonyjohnson8145]

@@thesentinelsfootballchanne3212 Now that’s beyond me 😂😂😂😂

[@joelamthach5812]

They been the best since

[@hanshawks5088]

Think if he had been a general or ran for president 😮😮😮

[@josephbarrett3860]

Bill Walsh changed the game. Please note that this is coming from a NY Giants fan. Hated his 49’ers teams.

[@anthonyslazas6413]

Andy Reid looked so young with the short hair on the Packers sideline

[@joeblow6100]

84 niners is the greatest team in NFL history. I'm an eagle fan, east coast, NFC east smashmouth. Greatest team ever is either the 84 niners or the 89 niners that won without bill. Shows his amazing ability to create the most perfect team. Idc what people say about the 85 bears. Even the 72 dolphins. No. I would put my money on either 49er team over those teams. Just my opinion

[@jacktheripoff1888]

I didn't appreciate the 49ers like I should have back then. Being from an AFC town might have made a difference a little. I never thought they were overrated. In fact looking back on watching them in '84 was that they played so dominant it seemed matter-of-factly. They were the first team to go 15-1 and it was not truly appreciated. It was "Marino-this and Marino-that" going into SB-19. A lot of, "Montana? Oh, great QB, but he's not THIS guy." And then Montana basically says hold my beer and settles that matter quick. And again it was so methodical that it bordered on boring. I watched a replay of it not too long ago, and when I saw Montana on the rollouts and on the runs he made I now started thinking, "Yeah, look at Joe's feet."

[@LorenzoAllen-gc2ux]

Coach Walsh you are the 49ers

[@bradjames891]

What if the Seahawks had chosen Bill Walsh? They could arguably be the most successful franchise in the NFL today. It would have been Walsh/Chuck Knox/Holmgren/Carroll.

[@3321far]

The thing was, Bill was correct in 1988. If they had made the KC trade they would have drafted Derrick Thomas and Michael Irvin. Book end pass rushers Charles Haley and Thomas, book end wide outs in Rice and Irvin. They probably would've gone undefeated.

[@thfzn3130]

I disagree. Young wasn’t ready yet, he needed a full year in 1991 before he became an MVP type player in 92.

[@redmustangredmustang]

The thing was Steve Young was far far from being his hall of fame self. IF that was 1992 to 95 Steve Young then the 49ers would have won 3 straight Super Bowls. But it wasn't.

[@lynnerose7891]

1988???? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 No.

[@timburr4453]

Brilliant documentary, though what happened between Walsh and Paul Brown is very disappointing 29:32 is absurd...how in the hell do you call that PI? He was making a play on the football. He arrived the second the ball arrived. Perfect pass defense

[@jasonpdsi]

I just checked Amazon on 11/19/24. The book goes for $400. No joke.

[@megalon73]

This made happy that. Bill Walsh. Got back the bangles. But, Would have better in the A-Hole Paul Brown was there. Brown maybe a good coach. But Bill Walsh create a Dynasty!

[@Bull1908]

I've been trying to find Walshs book, "Finding the Winning Edge" online and you can't find it without paying a couple of hundred. I'm shocked no one has re released it again.

[@kingKing-is6me]

Paul Brown ENVIED Bill Walsh and because of that did everything to prevent him from succeeding WHAT A DISGRACE !

[@84giants]

That's all. 52:13. He was on high. look at his eyes. We are living in a twisted world

[@LongerLasting]

Allegedly, Walsh didn't want to draft Montana; he wanted to draft his QB from Stanford.

[@johnbeechy]

i had wondered why God took Billy so early Now, by 37:23 of this video, i know why he whom cuts too many greats before their time, ends up dead before his time. God has a plan and it does include Loyalty myop

[@LorenzoAllen-gc2ux]

That joe is a football player

[@cmm30]

He was what we do not want in coaching. A mess. We should give Montana the Peace medal. OCD. OCD.

[@Ryan2022]

He was wrong about Randy Cross who played his entire 13 year career with the 49ers.

[@lynnerose7891]

It was about motivation. Clearly it motivated Randy.

[@Ryan2022]

@@lynnerose7891 OK, he motivated all of his players, and then released them anyway. for some reason Cross was able to hang around his entire career.

[@nickalastenney7216]

He was best coach of 80s the second best was Joe gibbs

[@joelamthach5812]

.. man has brain!!!

[@greghoppe3973]

Good coach ? Definitely. Great coach ? Possibly. A genius ? No. Walsh drafted Ken MacAfee, a three time All-American tight end from Notre Dame. Finished 4th in the Heisman balloting his senior year. Played tight end for the 49ers for two seasons and Walsh tried to make him an offensive guard. MacAfee instead retired from football and went to dental school. A genius wouldn't have tried to move MacAfee to a completely different position.

[@lynnerose7891]

It’s McAfee Also, Walsh wasn’t the coach who drafted McAfee. McAfee was out of the league by the time Walsh was in SF.

[@hanshawks5088]

No ones perfect

[@stevenjoyce5541]

Bill Walsh’s only loss in 1984 was to another genius in Chuck Noll .

[@ChadFarthouse-h8r]

No it was to the referee who called the worst pass interference call in history giving the Steelers a first down and goal. had nothing to do with Chuck Knoll

[@stevenjoyce5541]

@@ChadFarthouse-h8r the simple fact the 9-7 Steelers were in the game all the way , was because of coaching ! Same team beat 13-3 Denver in Denver that year !

[@ChadFarthouse-h8r]

@@stevenjoyce5541 yeah ok it had nothing to do with the call against 49ers. I suppose the immaculate reception was good coaching too, not a freak play. Your argument is stupid

[@Bull1908]

I wonder why Walshs widow didn't interview for this.

[@i.alexjohn]

Bill Walsh not paying me doesn’t bother me. Why mention it ?

[@thesentinelsfootballchanne3212]

@1:06:15 the reason why Kyle Shanahan cannot win a Super Bowl summed up perfectly by the greatest head coach in 49er history.

[@VernonWilliamson-m5d]

They ruined this documentary by adding condilisa rice.

[@Coolbreeze1965]

The 80's--that was when you could Hit someone--today the game is so dumb I stoppe watching in 2000;

[@bradjames891]

*or bragging up those he covered, excuse me.

[@barryallen5313]

Sorry.The best era was the 1960s,without a doubt.The legend of Lombardi.Nuff said.

[@tnt46dog]

31:15 Why cant we have this mentality vs KC.. 🫨

[@thesentinelsfootballchanne3212]

Compare Bill Walsh with Kyle Shanahan from a psychological standpoint. Mentally they're two different people. Walsh held himself accountable more than any other coach. Bill Walsh wanted to win and would do so bye attacking the weaknesses of the opposing team and not letting up on them. Kyle wants to win displaying his scripted scheme. The problem with that is if you screw up his script before he gets the offense red hot, he has an inability to improvise in situational football. Then he starts to panic because things aren't going his way. Then that leads to him overthinking. He starts to pass in situations he should be running and vice versa. Kyle ultimately needs to grow as a human being, in order to grow as a head coach. All great Super Bowl winning head coaches care only about one thing, winning. Kyle Shanahan cares about winning but he lacks the ability to make crucial decisions in crucial moments that lose games. Bill Walsh had ice flowing through his veins. Kyle Shanahan does not.

[@dumisatonyjohnson8145]

Bill was a genius Kyle isn’t