At a time when the 49ers staff consisted of just seven full-time coaches, Walsh hired two Black men who were newcomers to the NFL coaching ranks: Dennis Green and Billie Matthews. "Bill Walsh ...

Expect Aubrey Pleasant to be added to that list. Sean McVay, despite not being 40, has a coaching tree reaching Bill Walsh levels of impressive and Coen's hire just adds to that list.

Bill Walsh’s coaching tree was extensive throughout the late 1980s, Mike Holmgren’s coaching tree spread wide in the 1990s, and today it’s Kyle Shanahan’s coaching tree that dominates the ...