Steve Spagnuolo has won four Super Bowls as a coach and is cited as arguably the most valuable so could it really be that large of a blunder when the St. Louis Rams hired him to be the head coach in 2009? According to a list of the worst coaching hires of the century by CBS Sports, the answer is yes.
Writer Cody Benjamin believes that in spite of his success as the Chiefs defensive coordinator, Spagnuolo was to blame for all of the Rams injuries and poor front office decisions at the time:
Record: 10-38
Another example of a fearsome coordinator who couldn’t translate defensive genius to head coaching dominance, Spagnuolo is currently the face of the Chiefs’ perennially stingy Super Bowl-contending defense.