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playoff records of all playoff head coaches (1 Viewer)

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Bill Belichick: 11-1, including 3-0 in super bowls and 1-0 in 2005.

Joe Gibbs: 17-5, including 3-1 in super bowls and 1-0 in 2005.

John Fox: 4-1, including 0-1 in super bowls and 1-0 in 2005.

Mike Shanahan: 7-4, including 2-0 in super bowls.

Mike Holmgren: 9-8, including 1-1 in super bowls.

Bill Cowher: 9-9, including 0-1 in super bowls and 1-0 in 2005.

Tony Dungy: 5-7.

Lovie Smith: 0-0

Only Bill Cowher and Tony Dungy are not above .500 lifetime among those who have any experience.

Cowher and Dungy are also 2 of the 3 who do not have at least 1 super bowl win among those with any experience.
Dungy really needs to win this weekend because falling to 5-8 is completely unacceptable.
Cowher isn't going to look very good either is he falls to 9-10.
Dungy needs to win the super bowl this year just to get over .500 lifetime at 8-7.
Bill Cowher will have to at least reach the super bowl to finish the year over .500 lifetime.
Colts vs Bears would be the only matchup where both head coaches haven't been a head coach in a super bowl before.The first round casualties:

John Gruden: 5-3, including 1-0 in super bowls.

Tom Coughlin: 4-5

Marvin Lewis: 0-1

Jack Del Rio: 0-1

Only one head coach with super bowl experience lost in the first round, and it was to Joe Gibbs.
The rest of these losing head coaches are now under .500 in the playoffs.Yeah, I'm feeling more and more nervous about picking the Colts to win the super bowl.

 
Has there been an all star class of head coaches in the same post season that would compare to this one? I'm having trouble thinking of one.

 
Has there been an all star class of head coaches in the same post season that would compare to this one? I'm having trouble thinking of one.
I know. And Dungy seems completely outclassed.
 
Has there been an all star class of head coaches in the same post season that would compare to this one? I'm having trouble thinking of one.
One way to look at it is a year-by-year count of all those who had won a super bowl at that point. For example:1996:

AFC: 1 (Parcells)

NFC: 2 (Switzer, Seifert)

Holmgren would get his ring that year. Shanahan was in that year but had not won a super bowl yet.

In 2005, we've got 5 guys who've won a super bowl in.

 
1997:AFC: 1 (Johnson)NFC: 1 (Holmgren)Shanahan would get his first ring that year.1998:AFC: 2 (Parcells, Shanahan)NFC: 1 (Holmgren)Shanahan picked up ring #2.1999:AFC: 1 (Johnson)NFC: 0Dick Vermiel would pick up his only ring that year.2000AFC: 1 (Shanahan)NFC: 0Billick picked up his only ring. Gruden made the playoffs for the first time, got the AFC title game, but hadn't won a ring yet.2001AFC: 1 (Billick)NFC: 1 (Vermiel)Belichick won his first ring. Gruden made the playoffs again and lost to the eventual champ again. 2002AFC: 0NFC: 0Gruden wins his only ring.2003AFC: 4 (Billick, Shanahan, Belichick, Vermiel)NFC: 1 (Holmgren)Belichick wins his second ring.2004AFC: 2 (Shanahan, Belichick)NFC: 1 (Holmgren)Belichick wins ring #3and now 2005AFC: 2 (Shanahan, Belichick)NFC: 3 (Holmgren, Gibbs, Gruden)

 
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Its interesting that from 1999-present, we've had 3 head coaches (Vermiel, Billick, Belichick) who all won their first super bowl in their first playoff trip with that club.Prior to those three, you have to go back to Bill Walsh to find a head coach that pulled that off.

 
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Its interesting that from 1999-present, we've had 3 head coaches (Vermiel, Billick, Belichick) who all won their first super bowl in their first playoff trip with that club.

Prior to those three, you have to go back to Bill Walsh to find a head coach that pulled that off.
Walsh in 1981Gibbs in 1982

Seifert in 1989

 
Its interesting that from 1999-present, we've had 3 head coaches (Vermiel, Billick, Belichick) who all won their first super bowl in their first playoff trip with that club.

Prior to those three, you have to go back to Bill Walsh to find a head coach that pulled that off.
Walsh in 1981Gibbs in 1982

Seifert in 1989
Seifert is like Tom Flores - they inherited a lot from the person they succeeded and have career coaching stats that are very inflated as a result.
 

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