PFW: Rating the NFL's top head coaches, coordinators

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Rating the NFL's top head coaches, coordinators

By PFW staff
July 16, 2004


History has shown that coaches can play just as important a role in the success or failure of a team as the players on the roster. Pro Football Weekly polled scouts, personnel directors and general managers for their opinions on NFL coaches. Below, PFW ranks the top head coaches and coordinators in the NFL today.


Head coaches

1. Bill Belichick / Patriots

Two Super Bowl trophies in three seasons and No. 1 in the minds of many.

2. Joe Gibbs / Redskins

Hard to argue — the man’s bust is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. How will he re-acclimate?

3. Bill Parcells / That Team in Texas
Two losing seasons in last 11; playoff team returns intact.

4. Jon Gruden / Buccaneers

Free agents flock to Tampa Bay for a reason.

5. Andy Reid / Eagles

Close enough to taste it, Reid has lost three straight NFC title games. Has more wins than any coach in the last four seasons.

6. Jeff Fisher / Titans

Relates well to players and is getting the most of a team with a lot of weaknesses below the surface.

7. Dick Vermeil / Chiefs

Passionate as they come, he’s now also known for building winners.

8. Tony Dungy / Colts

Mild-mannered exterior has been perfect foundation for Colts’ renaissance.

9. Mike Holmgren / Seahawks

Finally has assembled a Super Bowl-caliber cast.

10. Mike Shanahan / Broncos

Seems to change strategy with T-shirts and continually find playoffs.

3 out of 4 from the NFC East made the list

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[Deadskins]

Bill Belichick may have been the best the past few years, but the MAN is back in D.C.

[MtSherwood7]

In all fairness, I still think Gibbs has to prove that the game has not passed him by... I mean he has been away for a while. In Dick Vermeil's first season with the rams, I think they went like 4-12 or something, and didnt make the playoffs. The Rams however were alot less talented in Vermeil's first year.

[tsaler]

I asked this question before, but I don't know whether or not I got any responses. How long do you all think Gibbs will stick around as the head coach of the Redskins this time?

[Smithian]

Definately, 100% switch around 5 and 5. Probably, in my eyes, atleast, switch 7 and 8.

[hailskins666]

I asked this question before, but I don't know whether or not I got any responses. How long do you all think Gibbs will stick around as the head coach of the Redskins this time?

he said he's going to stick around for the entire five. but so did spurrier.

[JR_USCG_GOSKINS]

Joe will at least be here for five years, may be even longer.Why? Because we know what Joe can do ,Every redskins fan has been waiting for this day since he left us. Dan Synder grew up watching him perform his magic,just like the rest of us.Dan is going to do what ever Joe tells him to do.This is going to be a great time to be a skins fan.Its awsome to have a owner of a team that has been a true fan his entire life...

[welch]

In all fairness, I still think Gibbs has to prove that the game has not passed him by... I mean he has been away for a while.

Nothing to prove. He is one of the inventors of the modern game. There is a big gap between an inventor, and someone who imitates the inventor.

When I was at GE, we had a guy who had designed the world's first commercial packet data network. Designed the packet contents, the network protocol, designed the hardware that switched the packets...the whole thing.

Who would you want to work with: the guy who invented the whole business, or a guy who knows how to read a Cisco manual?

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Not likely that the game has passed him by. Watch as the season goes on. Watch the team become more coherent, more disciplined; watch them all play above their individual abilities. Watch the play like Redskins again.

[AshlynSkins]

Holgram and Shanahan while good HC's haven't shown the ability to win without Elway and Favre respectfully, all the other coaches on the list have proved they could win with different franchises, or in many situations the players or make-up of the team they won with previously (Gibbs all 3 titles were with 3 different QB's, Vermeil in Philly(even though he lost in the SB), and then in St.Louis, Parcells seemly everywhere he goes) etc....., only Dungy on that list is a HC who hasn't won a SB Title yet, but has proved he can turn a franchise around imho.

[DEHog]

How do you put the stundent about the teacher?? I think it should be Parcells than Gibbs