Former San Francisco 49ers head coach Steve Mariucci made an appearance recently on the podcast of NFL.com contributor Dave Dameshek, and got an intriguing question. Dameshek set up a hypothetical where Mariucci has two weeks to prepare for a game against an unknown opponent, and has to choose between Bill Belichick and Bill Walsh.
Technically Mariucci did not give a specific answer, but he opened by saying he was biased toward Coach Walsh. I’ll take that as him choosing Walsh over Belichick.
Walsh was team president when Mariucci was the 49ers head coach, and in the interview above (or here) Mooch talks about how Walsh told him he retired too soon.