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Good company: 49ers’ Kelly hanging with Walsh, Noll, Levy and Landry

Chip Kelly has a 27-33 record in the NFL, which isn’t good.

But it puts him in some good company.

After their first 60 games, Bill Walsh (26-34) and Tom Landry (14-42-4) had worse records, and Marv Levy (27-33) and Chuck Noll (27-33) had identical marks.

In other words, Kelly is hanging with a Hall-of-Fame quartet that combined for 16 Super Bowl appearances and nine Super Bowl rings.

Of course, the comparison between Kelly and that decorated foursome is flawed.

The Hall-of-Famers inherited woeful teams (Landry had the expansion Cowboys), spent their first 60 games with the same franchise and, generally speaking, were on an upward trajectory.