[tps_title]10. Forrest Gregg[/tps_title]
Forrest Gregg (1984-87) 25-37-1, .403
Great players don’t always make great coaches. They sometimes make worse general managers. People forget that Gregg coached the Browns and the Bengals before he coached the Packers. He actually had some success doing so. Gregg led the Bengals to the Super Bowl in 1981, where they lost a close game to the 49ers. He didn’t find any of that success with the Packers. After going 8-8 in his first two season, the Packers went 4-12 in 1986 and 5-9-1 in 1987. Gregg’s hard-ass, Lombardi-like style didn’t sit well with a lot of players. It probably didn’t help that Gregg also served as general manager and continually took a hard-line stance in contract negotiations. In fact, the Packers tried to nickel and dime guys under Gregg so badly that holdouts became an annual rite of summer. If Gregg would have been able to draft any talent, he might have had better luck, but it turns out he was terrible at that too. If you can say one good thing about Gregg’s tenure as Packers coach, it’s this — his teams always hated the Bears and didn’t mind hitting those scumbags after the whistle.