Current Head Coaches who've won Super Bowls

plasticman said:

Over half of the Super Bowl winning coaches went on to coach another NFL team


Tom Flores
Mike Ditka
Bill Parcells
Goerge Siefert
Jimmy Johnson
Mike Holmgrem
Mike Shanahan
Jon Gruden
Vince Lombardi
Hank Stram
Don McCafferty

.....and none of them won a Super Bowl with their new team.

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JD_KaPow said:

The evidence is clear. Next year’s SB will be won by a coach who’s won it before or by a coach that hasn’t.

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fivetwos said:

Parity is the reason.

NE was as close to a dynasty as we may ever see again, and I'm still not sure how they did it. Cheating maybe lol, not sure.

Maybe coaching actually matters. Kraft didnt mind having a personality bigger than him around in order to win.

Jerry on the other hand....whenever that situation would happen it would be....ok thanks, I'll take it from here, then the team regressed each time.

Watching Jerry play with his toy has been fun, yes?

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plasticman said:

Over half of the Super Bowl winning coaches went on to coach another NFL team


Tom Flores
Mike Ditka
Bill Parcells
Goerge Siefert
Jimmy Johnson
Mike Holmgrem
Mike Shanahan
Jon Gruden
Vince Lombardi
Hank Stram
Don McCafferty

.....and none of them won a Super Bowl with their new team.

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Jumbo075 said:

SB winning NFL Head Coaches

1. Bill Belichick - 2001, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016, 2018
2. Jon Gruden - 2002
3. Mike Tomlin - 2008
4. Sean Payton - 2009
5. Mike McCarthy - 2010
6. John Harbaugh - 2012
7. Pete Carroll - 2013
8. Doug Pederson - 2017
9. Andy Reid - 2019

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SB Losing NFL Head Coaches

1. Andy Reid - 2004
2. Bill Belichick - 2007, 2011, 2017
3. Mike Tomlin - 2010
4. Pete Carroll - 2014
5. Ron Rivera - 2015
6. Dan Quinn - 2016
7. Sean McVay - 2018
8. Kyle Shanahan - 2019

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In the 1970's, Don Shula, Chuck Knoll and Tom Landry all won multiple Super Bowls.
In the 1980's, Tom Flores, Bill Walsh, and Joe Gibbs all won multiple Super Bowls
In the 1990's, Jimmy Johnson, George Siefert, and Mike Shanahan all won multiple Super Bowls

Since 2000, only Bill Belichick has managed to win multiple Super Bowls as a Head Coach during a decade, and he did it twice.

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Risen Star said:

Interesting note about Bill Belichick. Never won a thing without the greatest QB of all time. Was a loser in Cleveland. Wasn't much better in New England until Brady emerged.

Parcells career impresses me more. No matter where he went, no matter what the situation, he will turn you into a contender. He even did it in Dallas attached to two morons.

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Diehardblues said:

Yes but the bigger point is winning SB HC’s didn’t win Super Bowls with their first team which includes 4 current on this list.

The fact no HC has ever duplicated such feat with another team would definitely support its more about the talent than the coaching.

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xwalker said:

Or that it's human nature to lose some competitive intensity once you've won the big prize and "proven" yourself.

Belichick still grinds away working long hours year after year.

Meanwhile just getting paid millions was enough to satisfy Garrett and he was often seen traveling to see Duke Basketball games during the bye week or similar activities.

It seems like a good sign that McCarty was grinding away during his year off.

A big part of Steve Spurrier's failure in the NFL was that he spent most of his time playing golf.

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OmerV said:

If they had won with their first team they likely wouldn’t have been with their 2nd team, so what I said still applies.

Besides. a lot of first time head coaches are still learning, and/or have bad team situations, and they don’t get the chance to grow into the job and build. Like Belichick in Cleveland.

Aside from coaching ability, the primary factors are situation and opportunity.

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• Rams Example
  • In 2019 many offenses emulated the Rams 2018 offense.
    • That meant that defenses were routinely facing similar offenses.
  • Defenses studied the Rams offense in depth during the 2019 off-season.
    • It helped that Belichick changed up his defense specifically against the Rams and shut down their best attributes.
    • Defenses got experience against similar offensive concepts in 2019 because other offense had emulated the Rams.
  • The Rams did lose some talent, but winning became much more difficult once their offense was no longer unique.

• Belichick
  • Meanwhile despite winning the Super Bowl for the 2018 season, Belichick changed his base downs defense from 4-3 in 2018 to 3-4 in 2019.
    • He has changed back and forth on defense multiple times over the years.
  • On offense some years they featured featured undersized Wes Welker, other years it was the 2 TE base offense, other years a big deep threat WR like Randy Moss.

• Kyle Shanahan
  • The 49ers didn't win the SB but they got there with less overall talent than many other teams.
    • Similar to McVay with the Rams in 2018, in 2019 Shanahan over-achieved relative to his team's talent.
    • The Rams had done it with their version of a zone running scheme and playing almost exclusively in 3 WR sets (about 95% of snaps).
  • Shanahan ran a different version of the zone running scheme. His version used a Fullback. They used a FB more than any other team.
    • The 49ers QB only completed 6 passes in one of the playoff wins.

Diehardblues said:

Spurrier spent much of his time playing golf in NCAA as well. That’s his MO.

Great coaching has a great eye for talent and assembles to fit his schemes.

Garrett traveling to Duke games was to illustrate the coaching styles and success of Coach K. Same reason he took players to see SMU play when they were having success.

Great coaching and scheming can only take you so far without the talent. It’s been proven time and time again.

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Bobhaze said:

There have been 8 super bowl winning head coaches who went to another team after winning one, but never won another SB. They are:

• Vince Lombardi- won SB I and II with pack and went to Coach the skins
• Hank Stram- won SB III with chiefs, later coached saints
• Tom Flores- won SB XV and XVIII with Raiders, later coached Seahawks
• Mike Ditka- won SB XX with bears, later coached saints
• Bill Parcells- won SB XXI and XXV w/ giants, later coached pats, jets and Cowboys
• George Seifert- won SB XXIV, XXVIIII with niners, later coached panthers
• Jimmy Johnson- won SB XXVII and XXVIII with Dallas, later coached the dolphins
• Mike Holmgren- won SB XXXI with pack, later coached Seahawks.

That’s 8 SB winning coaches that tried to win a SB again for another team and never succeeded. Jon Gruden and Mike McCarthy are two current HCs who have won a SB with another team and have changed teams attempting to win another. Hopefully Big Mac breaks this pattern.

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plasticman said:

In the first NFL championship game against the Packers, the game was decided on the last play when Meredith threw a pass into the end zone. One of the Packers blew their assignment and went to the wrong area were Meredith just happened to throw the ball. That player's mistake allowed him to be in the position to intercept the ball....brutal.

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Blackspider214 said:

As close to a dynasty? The Pats are the greatest dynasty in modern era of football. It spanned 2 decades with 6 titles and 9 appearances total. Name me another franchise who has did this in any sport.

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xwalker said:

That's my point. Recruiting great talent and assembling a good coaching staff in college can result in a winning program.

In the NFL talent alone won't win many Super Bowls. The talent is much more closely matched in the NFL.

I spent a lot of time the past year working the SF. Their fans think the Cowboys had more talent in 2019 than the 49ers but that Garrett couldn't get a job on Shanahan's staff coaching the water boys.

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