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The NFL head coaching carousel

There have already been 511 different men who have acted as the head coach for an NFL team for at least one game. If we restrict that to 14 games, we cut that number to 373 men. Using Vince Lombardi’s fist season as a start point (1959), we cut that number down to 275. Of those 275 only 93 have or had an overall winning record (some are still coaching). Of those 93, fifteen are in the Hall of Fame as coaches (and another four are in the Hall as players).

Head Coach Overall Win% Number of HC gigs
John Madden 76% 1
George Allen 71% 2
Don Shula 68% 2
Tony Dungy 67% 2
Bill Cowher 62% 1
Bud Grant 62% 1
Joe Gibbs 62% 2 (same team)
Bill Walsh 61% 1
Ton Landry 61% 1
Al Davis 59% 1
Bill Parcells 57% 4
Chuck Noll 57% 1
Marv Levy 56% 2
Mike Ditka* 56% 2
Joe Schmidt* 56% 1
Jimmy Johnson 56% 2
Raymond Berry* 55% 2
Tom Flores 53% 2
Art Shell* 52% 2 (same team)
*Asterisk denotes inducted as a player - not a coach

So it’s common, even among Hall of Fame coaches, to get more than one turn on the carousel (even if it is with the same team like Joe Gibbs and Art Shell).