who is the worst nfl head coach?

[CharlieDontSurf]

Norv, Art Shell, Dennis Green

[damaniac]

Norv Turner seems to have a long, proven record of mediocrity, yet he keeps getting hired somehow.

[Jeff W]

Coughlin is not the worst. He is 93-85 and both teams he coached were bad (Jacksonville-expansion team, Giants 4-12 year before he took over) when he took over. He led Jacksonville to the AFC championship in their 2nd season and made the playoffs in years 2-5--compare that to the track records of the browns and texans.

Norv Turner is really bad. Not sure if he's the worst, but he's been awful over a large sample with two teams.

[PokerFink]

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Norv, Art Shell, Dennis Green

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Dennis Erickson ftw.

[Mike Gallo]

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Coughlin is not the worst. He is 93-85 and both teams he coached were bad (Jacksonville-expansion team, Giants 4-12 year before he took over) when he took over. He led Jacksonville to the AFC championship in their 2nd season and made the playoffs in years 2-5--compare that to the track records of the browns and texans.

Norv Turner is really bad. Not sure if he's the worst, but he's been awful over a large sample with two teams.

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Your correct, however I live in the NY area and they brainwash you here.

[bones]

Norv by a mile.

[MacGuyV]

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All coaches have their flaws. Prior to Belichick wound up with the Patriots people considered him the worsr coach. Not because of his knowledge of X's and O's, he seriously lacked people skills.

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Cleveland Browns
From 1991 until 1995, Belichick was the head coach of the Cleveland Browns. During his tenure in Cleveland he compiled a 36-44 record, leading the team to its most recent playoff game win in 1994. Based on his performance, many fans in Cleveland think of him as an uncommunicative, dictatorial and arrogant coach who made many questionable moves, including benching and then cutting much-beloved quarterback Bernie Kosar in 1993 in order to replace him with journeyman Vinny Testaverde, a move that sparked great controversy in the area. In Belichick's last season in Cleveland the Browns finished 5-11. In November of that year Browns owner Art Modell announced he would move the team to Baltimore after the season which cut the legs out from under the already struggling team.[1]


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The next year they hired Brian Billick and won a Superbowl with a team he engineered but could not "coach".


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The Ravens did not make the playoffs in 96, 97, 98, or 99 and the Browns were lame ducks in 95. Seems like a big stretch to say that Billick won with or "coached up" Bellichick's team.

[MacGuyV]

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Coughlin is not the worst. He is 93-85 and both teams he coached were bad (Jacksonville-expansion team, Giants 4-12 year before he took over) when he took over. He led Jacksonville to the AFC championship in their 2nd season and made the playoffs in years 2-5--compare that to the track records of the browns and texans.

Norv Turner is really bad. Not sure if he's the worst, but he's been awful over a large sample with two teams.

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Yah, everyone has a short memory.

[Jack of Arcades]

Obviously it's Sean Payton...

[SuperUberBob]

Hard to say since we haven't seen enough of Lane Kiffin, Bobby Petrino or Mike Tomlin to make a good decision.

I'm going with Norv Turner. Like Mike Martz, he's better off as a coordinator than a coach.