Successful "Soft" HCs in the NFL?

Have there been HCs who are not Lombardi-types? The players-coaches types in the NBA. I'm thinking Trestman becomes a players-coach type with a strong guy like Cutler.

Walsh was described as "cerebral" but he could be tough (he cut Lott in Plan B!!; traded Montana!).

Levy?

 

Tony Dungy and Dick Vermeil (redux edition).

 

Pete Carroll runs a pretty loose ship.

 

Was Seifert a hard ass?

Andy Reid?

 

Can't imagine Reid was a hardass. He looks like a walrus.

 

Successful?

Dungy fits that pretty well.

Andy Reid might be considered borderline.

Not successful or borderline...
Steve Mariucci
Wade Phillips
Mike Sherman, Dick Jauron, Mike Tice...

 

Bill Walsh, control freak though he was, was widely considered less than a martinet.

 

Depending how you define "soft," there is an argument to be made -- and mostly just a philosophical one here -- that Jimmy Johnson was on the soft side. As long as you came to play, he didn't care how many hookers you were hanging out with the night before or the night after, and he didn't have all the other Tom Coughlin-style dictator rules either.

 

There's only one HC, and she posts here.

 

Tom Landry?

 

And she is a violent sort. Poisons puppies and whatnot.

 

Walsh was renowned for his "soft" practices -- I want to say the team stopped all hitting in practice after the first month of the season. And he was also able to keep things light in pressure situations, such as the time he dressed as a bellhop when the team arrived for its first Super Bowl appearance and started carrying his players' bags into the hotel.

He was definitely more "players coach" than dictator.