John McVay. John McVay? Eddie DeBartolo Jr. owned those 49ers, and he has been in the Pro Football Hall of Fame since 2016. “I don’t know what I’d have done without John McVay,” Walsh told David Harris in The Genius, a 2008 biography about Walsh. Then Bill hired the guy who should have been in the Pro Football Hall of Fame before Roger Craig and those 177 other folks.