Tough call. The pinnacle of achievement as a head coach is Super Bowl victories. Here's the list (super bowl winning coach elected to Hall of Fame is in bold below) current head coaches in italics:
Bill Belichick (6)
Chuck Noll (4)
Joe Gibbs (3)
Andy Reid (3)
Bill Walsh (3)
Tom Coughlin (2)
Tom Flores (2)
Jimmy Johnson (2)
Tom Landry (2)
Vince Lombardi (2) (and three other NFL Championships)
Sean McVay (2)
Bill Parcells (2)
George Seifert (2)
Mike Shanahan (2)
Nick Siriani (2)
Don Shula (2)
Bruce Arians
Brian Billick
Pete Carroll
Bill Cowher
Mike Ditka (elected as player)
Tony Dungy
Weeb Ewbank
Jon Gruden
John Harbaugh
Mike Holmgren
Gary Kubiak
John Madden
Don McCafferty
Mike McCarthy
Doug Pederson
Hank Stram
Barry Switzer
Mike Tomlin
Dick Vermeil
And to be fair, both Bud Grant and Marv Levy are in the NFL HoF with four Super Bowl losses and zero SB wins each.
Belichick has the second-highest career winning percentage of any NFL head coach not in the Hall of Fame. The highest? George Seifert. Both are egregious omissions. Belichick has the third most NFL wins overall of any coach behind Shula and Halas. Seifert is #38 overall, right behind George Allen and just ahead of Norv Turner and former Stanford coach Denny Green. Acknowledged coaching geniuses Vince Lombardi and Bill Walsh are #47 and #51 on the career winning list respectively.
Personally, I think both Belichick and Seifert belong and it is egregious in the extreme that Belichick is not elected. Two big differences between Walsh and Seifert, incidentally; 1) Seifert spent the majority of his HC career under a salary cap, while Walsh had a free spending owner, and 2) Seifert as DC finished in the Top 4 in fewest points allowed six of 10 years.
Bill Belichick (6)
Chuck Noll (4)
Joe Gibbs (3)
Andy Reid (3)
Bill Walsh (3)
Tom Coughlin (2)
Tom Flores (2)
Jimmy Johnson (2)
Tom Landry (2)
Vince Lombardi (2) (and three other NFL Championships)
Sean McVay (2)
Bill Parcells (2)
George Seifert (2)
Mike Shanahan (2)
Nick Siriani (2)
Don Shula (2)
Bruce Arians
Brian Billick
Pete Carroll
Bill Cowher
Mike Ditka (elected as player)
Tony Dungy
Weeb Ewbank
Jon Gruden
John Harbaugh
Mike Holmgren
Gary Kubiak
John Madden
Don McCafferty
Mike McCarthy
Doug Pederson
Hank Stram
Barry Switzer
Mike Tomlin
Dick Vermeil
And to be fair, both Bud Grant and Marv Levy are in the NFL HoF with four Super Bowl losses and zero SB wins each.
Belichick has the second-highest career winning percentage of any NFL head coach not in the Hall of Fame. The highest? George Seifert. Both are egregious omissions. Belichick has the third most NFL wins overall of any coach behind Shula and Halas. Seifert is #38 overall, right behind George Allen and just ahead of Norv Turner and former Stanford coach Denny Green. Acknowledged coaching geniuses Vince Lombardi and Bill Walsh are #47 and #51 on the career winning list respectively.
Personally, I think both Belichick and Seifert belong and it is egregious in the extreme that Belichick is not elected. Two big differences between Walsh and Seifert, incidentally; 1) Seifert spent the majority of his HC career under a salary cap, while Walsh had a free spending owner, and 2) Seifert as DC finished in the Top 4 in fewest points allowed six of 10 years.
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