Who are the worst NFL Head Coaches of all time?

[Mackgee 0]

I know we have the Marty Mohrningwegs<<spelling, Gene Stallings, Steve Spurrier, and the list goes on. Who do you think the worst head coach of all time is?

[GoBucky1 2]

Wanny

[Darb33 0]

Rich Kotite

[GiantsRule 0]

Rich Kotite.

 

-Thread Over-

[AnaheimRams 28]

Mike Martz

[Mackgee 0]

Art Shell?

[dreadlocks34 0]

Les Steckel for the 84 Vikings certainly must be mentioned.

[Savage Beast 1]

Lou Holtz. He made Joe Namath run the option offense for the Jets in Namath's final NFL season. Needless to say, the Jets only won 3 games because of this. How could a head coach make the slowest QB in the league run the option offense and expect to win??????????

[JGB_11 0]

Dave Wannstedt set the bears franchise back 10 years.

 

He should be coaching high school girls softball (not that there is anything wrong with that)

[UncleHulka 0]

Lou Holtz. He made Joe Namath run the option offense for the Jets in Namath's final NFL season. Needless to say, the Jets only won 3 games because of this. How could a head coach make the slowest QB in the league run the option offense and expect to win??????????

Before my time, but if that's true, then I can now understand appreciate Namath's drinking.

[GiantsRule 0]

Dave Wannstedt set the bears franchise back 10 years.

 

He should be coaching high school girls softball (not that there is anything wrong with that)

 

I don't get it: Didn't Wanny get Coach of the Year during his tenure in Chicago?

[Savage Beast 1]

Before my time, but if that's true, then I can now understand appreciate Namath's drinking.

 

It's sad but true. In 1976 Holtz coached the Jets, and was fired before season's end because of his craptacular play calling. The option offense will never be successful in the NFL, unless Vick is running it, and he's not.

[16 and 33 0]

When Buffalo hired former Detroit interim coach D1ck Jauron, it marked the first time any HC hired by the Ford family in the last 45 years had gone on to obtain a HC job after leaving the Lions. Take your pick amongst these 12 who passed through the NFL graveyard of coaches:

• Harry Gilmer
  
• Joe Schmidt
  
• Don McCafferty
  
• Rick Forazano
  
• Tommy Hudspeth
  
• Monte Clark
  
• Darryl Rogers
  
• Wayne Fontes
  
• Bobby Ross
  
• Gary Moeller
  
• Marty Mornhinweg
  
• Steve Mariucci
  

[JGB_11 0]

I don't get it: Didn't Wanny get Coach of the Year during his tenure in Chicago?

 

Yes 1994, the bears went 9-7 and got the last playoff spot. It was the year the Vikings, Packers, Lions, and Bears all made the playoffs. The Bears beat the vikings in the first round and lost 44-15 to the 49ers in the divisional round.

 

Whats your point. Alot of bad coaches won the award it doesnt mean Wanny was any good. In fact if wanny was good he would still be working in the NFL instead of at Pitt....

[Lions_or_Die 0]

Phil Handler

Cardinals

4-34

[Lions_or_Die 0]

Bruce Coslet is pretty low on the list

47-77

 

Rod Dowhower

Colts 85-86

5-24

 

Tom Fears

Saints 67-70

13-34-2

 

Kevin Gilbride

Chargers 97-98

6-16

 

Frank Ganz

Chiefs 87-88

8-22-1

 

Admitedly, too many Lions coaches to list.

 

Dave McGinnis

Cards 2000-2003

17-40

[Old Sarge 0]

Jerry Glanville

[Byars41 0]

Rich Kotite

 

1st guy that came to my mind

 

did you know: Counting his last seven games with the Eagles, Kotite lost 31 of his final 35 games as an NFL head coach, for a winning percentage of .114. BUT Before that, his percentage had been .632.

 

i'd like to throw a nomination to Wayne Fontes. i always thought he misused Barry. i never understood why he didn't throw him a ton of screen passes, etc. Barry on a screen seemed like it could have been the deadliest play in the league

[OuttaLuck 0]

You can't forget Ray Handley of the Giants. He took over a Super Bowl team with a lot of very good players and managed to get them to .500; rumor has it he later became a manager at Enron.

[resser2 0]

When Buffalo hired former Detroit interim coach D1ck Jauron, it marked the first time any HC hired by the Ford family in the last 45 years had gone on to obtain a HC job after leaving the Lions. Take your pick amongst these 12 who passed through the NFL graveyard of coaches:

• Harry Gilmer
  
• Joe Schmidt
  
• Don McCafferty
  
• Rick Forazano
  
• Tommy Hudspeth
  
• Monte Clark
  
• Darryl Rogers
  
• Wayne Fontes
  
• Bobby Ross
  
• Gary Moeller
  
• Marty Mornhinweg
  
• Steve Mariucci
  

 

 

Wayne Fontes play book had 4 plays

 

 

1. Barry run right

2. Barry run Left

3. Barry run middle

4. Punt

 

1st guy that came to my mind

 

did you know: Counting his last seven games with the Eagles, Kotite lost 31 of his final 35 games as an NFL head coach, for a winning percentage of .114. BUT Before that, his percentage had been .632.

 

i'd like to throw a nomination to Wayne Fontes. i always thought he misused Barry. i never understood why he didn't throw him a ton of screen passes, etc. Barry on a screen seemed like it could have been the deadliest play in the league

 

 

sorry my bad.... I didn't mean to copy..... I didn't read the whole thread before I posted.

[dalie 2]

Les Steckel for the 84 Vikings certainly must be mentioned.

 

 

The only good thing about Les Steckels ONE AND ONLY year as a head coach (1-15) was that it brought the great Bud Grant (if only he had won a darn trophey! ) back for one more year!

[frank 2,294]

Art Shell?

 

 

and there is no close second

 

 

 

 

Art:" 7 step drop" (sack)

 

Art:" 7 step drop" (sack)

 

Art: "umm, 7 step drop?" (sack)

[manola 0]

One great college coach was already mentioned (Lou Holtz), I want to add Pete Carroll though.

 

Parcells got the Pats into the Super Bowl in 1996, and then Carroll took over for 3 or 4 years. By his last season, he had turned them into a joke again. Luckily Belicheck was around to pick up the pieces.

 

 

Also, Mike Tice. That guy reminds me of one of Hank's friends on King of the Hill.

[Steve Lattimer 0]

Lou Holtz

[edjr 6,580]

One great college coach was already mentioned (Lou Holtz), I want to add Pete Carroll though.

 

Parcells got the Pats into the Super Bowl in 1996, and then Carroll took over for 3 or 4 years. By his last season, he had turned them into a joke again. Luckily Belicheck was around to pick up the pieces.

Also, Mike Tice. That guy reminds me of one of Hank's friends on King of the Hill.

 

 

it was Carroll and not that pathetic excuse for a GM Bobby Grier right?? you don't know a thing, We all know Carroll picked the players.

[Boston 0]

Rod Rust...one year as HC with the Pats in 1990...1-15 record.

 

How can any Patriot fan not remember him standing still on the sideline with the hood over head so you could barely see his face.

[UncleHulka 0]

What about worst gms?

 

Beathard comes to mind, certainly not the worst, but probably the most overrated. He had a few glory years for the Skins, but the game passed him by before he knew it. How often can you trade next years #1's for current #2's and expect to compete? He set the Chargers back several years single-handedly. And some really poor picks were made with those #2's.

[CookieG 4]

Here are a few good (i mean bad ones) I remember unfondly:

 

Dave McGinnis 17 - 40

D-ick McPherson 8 - 24 (Go Orangemen!)

Marty Mornhinweg 5 - 27

Ray Perkins 42 - 75 (ugh.. childhood)

Ray Rhodes 37 - 42 - 1 (good coord. bad head coach)

Darryl Rogers 18 - 40

Al Saunders 17 - 22

David Shula 19 - 52 (how many can you lose on daddy's coattails?)

Steve Spurrier 12 - 20 ('ol ball coach was lost in the big leagues)

Bart Starr 52 - 76 - 3 (great players, good coaches do not make)

Vince Tobin 28 - 43 (we think Bugel & Denny Green were/are horrible)

Norm VanBrocklin 66 - 100 - 7 (the old dutchman lost a lot of friggin' games)

Bob Waterfield 9 - 24 - 1 (see Bart Starr)

Alex Webster 29 - 40 - 1 (another Giant failure)

Bud Wilkinson 9 - 20 (see Spurrier, McPherson -- Go Sooners!)

Gregg Williams 17 - 31 (this guy could get another shot -- how soon they forget)

 

Rich Kotite 40 - 56 (don't care what the record was.. he remains "Costanza, King of All Idiots" poor Mr. Hess)

[Ras66not99 0]

from the heart .... Butch Davis sucked in my opinion.... so happy to see that fock stick go...

 

from the mind.... Wayne Fontes... fockin Bobby Ross ate cack as well

[Let Da Big Dog Eat 40]

This is probably another thread about GM's but since he was the HC and GM, I would nominate Mike Sherman. He put the the Packers in the crapper for 5-8 years with his decisions.

[Ramer 0]

John McKay

[GettnHuge 2]

Andy Reid

[dragon10 0]

Pete Carrol.......

 

my those days in New England were bad

[Foghorn Leghorn 0]

I vote Wayne Fontes. I also vote Barry Switzer. Going for it on a 4th and 1 around your own 20 is something you do in Madden 07, not real life.

[Parja 0]

Les Steckel for the 84 Vikings certainly must be mentioned.

 

 

His name came immediately to my mind when I read the title of the thread.

[Giants Fan 85]

Ray Hadley

 

[GoBucky1 2]

I don't get it: Didn't Wanny get Coach of the Year during his tenure in Chicago?

 

So did ###### Jauron!

[Kopy 565]

Wade Philips.

 

How do you play Rob Johnson instead of Flutie

[IRBIR 0]

Hank Bullough - Bills head coach -85-'86. Record 4-17.

 

This guy was one of the biggest idiots of all-time. Sportswriters in Buffalo loved him though for his idiotic ramblings such as "We keep beating ourselves, but we're getting better at it." as well as the classic "It really took the sails right out of our wind." When the Bills were trying to sign Jim Kelly he was also quoted as saying "It's not something I dream about every day I wake up."

 

Reportedly near the end of Bullough's run as the Bills coach when he was under a lot of heat to win, he was so despised by his players that a rookie Bruce Smith came into the Bills' D huddle and threatened "...whoever makes the tackle is going to get the sh-- beat out of 'em."

 

Fred Smerlas had this to say in his autobiography as well about Hank who he referred to as "The Braincell". "It was very, very difficult. When you rely so much on emotion to play, to just drain yourself, I didn’t play well for a couple of years. And then the ‘Braincell’ came in. He kind of rekindled my career because I hated him so much. And everyone on the team hated him. There was a giant state lottery and I went to the store. Everyone on the team was in line playing the lottery, hoping to win it so they could spit in Hank Bullough’s face. Can you imagine that? That’s how much we hated him."

[GobbleDog 991]

I always thought Spurrier's tenure at Washington wasn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. If you go back and look, most of the games he lost were by 3 points or less. And that was with complete losers at QB. If Spurrier had stayed, I think WAS would have gotten a lot better.