That Al Groh team was up 14-0 in last game of the season against future SB champ Ravens. Lost 34-20 off some crazy shit and then Ravens buzz sawed through the playoff.Tuna and Al Groh (9-7) are the only Jets coaches with winning career records there. Add Mike Holovak, Ron Meyer and Pete Carroll to the men listed above.
As a few folks have mentioned Rod Rust (and rightfully so), I will say that the 1990 Pats would have won something like 3 or 4 tops games under Belichick. That team was bereft of anything remotely resembling talent in all 3 phases of the game. Vincent Brown, Marv Cook, Chris Singleton, Irving Fryar, Tim Goad, Maurice Hurst, and Andre Tippett (who was significantly limited with injury) were the only true NFL players on that roster. To be fair, some of the veterans on the team were quality players at one point until age and injury caught up to them.The Patriots had Chuck Fairbanks as their coach, he IMO is the third best coach they've had behind Belichick and Parcells, he was coach in 1976 when they got robbed in the playoff game vs the Raiders on a horseshit roughing the passer call. I might give him 3A with Raymond Berry as 3B.
He left after the 1978 season (he was fired before the Monday night game vs Miami on the last day of the season, then rehired to coach the playoff game vs the Oilers and they got blown out) and they hired Ron Erhardt, he took over a loaded roster...........and proceeded to go 9-7, 10-6, missing the playoffs both years, then 2-14 and he was shown the door. Those 1976/7/78 teams were loaded, they made the playoffs twice but went 0-2, that 1976 team should have won the Super Bowl that year, I wonder what the 1978 team would have done without all the drama over the Fairbanks situation.
When Raymond Berry left after the 1989 season, they hired Rod Rust...........who proceeded to go 1-15, they won their first game that year, then went 0-15, including 0-8 at home, he was horrendous.
He was followed by Dick MacPherson, he stunk too, 8-24 and was fired after two miserable seasons and replaced by Parcells.
Shell #1 was an extremely good coach.Latter day Al Davis had a genius for coaching hires doomed to fail after Shanahan. Every coach but Gruden (twice) was... wow. It's a football murderers' row. Shell 2x, Tom Cable, Bill Callahan, Joe Bugel, Mike White, Norv Turner, Kiffin, Hue Jackson, Dennis Allen, Tony Sparano and Jack Del Rio. Except for Shell getting 5 years (!) the first go-round and Gruden, the very best any of this flotsam could manage was 2 years. I'd say Davis must have spent a fortune on dead coaching contracts but he probably was able to sign them all on the CHEAP given the demand.
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1999 NFC West is pretty bad.What's the worst group of coaches in a single division in a single year?
I think that was 20091999 NFC West is pretty bad.
Jim Mora Jr
Steve Spagnolo
Mike Singletary
Ken Whisenhunt
That is a really bad group, and two of them (Jauron and Sherman) have strong MA ties.What's the worst group of coaches in a single division in a single year?
The worst I could come up with was the 2002 NFC North:
Dick Jauron
Marty Mornhinweg
Mike Tice
Mike Sherman
I see that slate of coaches and raise you:The 9ers went through a wide group of bad coaching hires for a while.
Dennis Erickson, Mike Nolan, Mike Singletary. For a while the owners didn't seem to care or sort of didn't want ti be there, ever since Ed Debartolo was forced to sell to his sister. Plus there was the time when the entire FO was gutted and taken to Cleveland with Carmen Policy, outgoing team President.
Then they hired Harbaugh. He threw his tantrums and all but was good and took them to 3 straight NFCCG and one Super Bowl, ti be followed by Jim Tomsula and Chip Kelly (notably right after they got their new stadium).
The horrible slate of coaches and OCs was surely why Alex Smith's career ended up that way.
While the results speak of themselves you could do a lot worse than Wade Phillips and Bill Parcells.I see that slate of coaches and raise you:
Barry Switzer
Chan Gailey
Dave Campo
Bill Parcells
Wade Phillips
Jason Garrett
Mike McCarthy
That's a very underwhelming group. And the results, or lack thereof, speak for themselves: a .520 regular season win percentage and a 4-10 playoff record in the 26 seasons since their title in Super Bowl XXX.
*Yes, I realize there are many other franchises that have gone through worse.
Yes, which is why I allowed that other franchises have had worse. Though it could be argued that Phillips's success was largely due to the Parcells roster (I call this the Barry Switzer phenomenon) but Parcells never had a chance because he was merely brought in to goose the vote for the new stadium. Once that vote was locked in, Jones started doing his thing and that relationship was doomed.While the results speak of themselves you could do a lot worse than Wade Phillips and Bill Parcells.
Chan Gailey was highly rated when he was hired.