Former NFL head coach and current Tennessee Titans radio host Dave McGinnis made sure to give the late Bill Tobin his flowers upon learning of Tobin's passing Friday morning.
"Without bill, without really the Tobin family, I would not be where I am today in the National Football League," McGinnis said on The Buck Reising Show. "There's two guys that taught me how taught me how to evaluate, and how the draft works...Bill Tobin, he was one of the best one of the very, very best.
"I know Bill Tobin very, very well, and he was an iconic, iconic personnel man in this league, and a great human being."
McGinnis and Tobin crossed paths multiple times in their respective football lives. McGinnis spent two years with the Missouri football program under Bill's brother, Vince Tobin, whom was the defensive coordinator at the time. Tobin was born in the state and went to Mizzou for college.
McGinnis later was the Chicago Bears' linebackers coach from 1986-95, which overlapped Tobin's time as the Bears' general manager from 1987-92.
The drafting and evaluating knowledge McGinnis learned from Tobin was put into use from 2000-03 when he was the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals. He was a part of war rooms that drafted the likes of Thomas Jones, Adrian Wilson, Kyle Vanden Bosch, and Anquan Boldin.
McGinnis' coaching and evaluating career spanned more than 40 years, and many of them involved working alongside Tobin and his brother. The Cincinnati Bengals' loss is his loss as well.
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