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The 7 Worst Coaches to Ever Win a Super Bowl

The Worst Coaches to Win a Super Bowl!
Publish Date: 09/29/2022
Fact checked by: Simon Briffa

Let me start off by saying I know all of these guys were at least good coaches. Just remember, somebody has to be at the bottom of the list.

7) Don McCafferty, Baltimore Colts

Don McCafferty was only in the NFL for four seasons. He stayed with the Colts through the 1972 season before taking over for the 1973 Detroit Lions. He, unfortunately, suffered a fatal heart attack while cutting the grass before the start of the 1974 NFL season. McCafferty was only 53 years old. McCafferty doesn’t get a lot of credit for the 1970 Colts but he should. Part of the reason that Shula left the Colts may have been because they were getting old, but McCafferty lead the Colts to a Super Bowl win something, Shula never accomplished in Baltimore. Maybe if he doesn’t tragically pass away at such a young age he wouldn’t even be on this list, but there is no way to know that for sure.

6) Jon Gruden, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Here is a “quarterback guru” who never could quite develop a quarterback as a head coach. Gruden did bring the Raiders back from almost a decade of ineptness and he did win a Super Bowl against the Raiders, but the rest of his career he was pretty much a .500 coach. Maybe he takes himself off this list in Oakland but I doubt it.

5) Mike Ditka, Chicago Bears

I know 1985 was one of the greatest teams of all time. My question to you would be, why didn’t they go back after 1985? Buddy Ryan left and the defense was never the same. Ditka also never could find the right quarterback, but no excuses here. The 1986 and 1987 Bears didn’t make it back to the Super Bowl because Joe Gibbs and Bill Parcells were just better coaches. What didn’t help matters was Ditka was convinced that Doug Flutie may have been the answer. Plus, you have to include his three years with the Saints, which were an absolute mess.

4) Mike McCarthy, Green Bay Packers

McCarthy is a good coach. But that’s where it ends. He presided over a very fortunate playoff run in a season where his team never should have made the playoffs. That said, it’s his decision-making and lack of ability to make adjustments in the postseason that has him on this list.

The best example of a promising season coming to an end due to his conservative coaching is the 2014 NFC Championship collapse.

McCarthy has largely built a coaching legacy on the coattails of two hall of fame quarterbacks. We have all seen what happens when Aaron Rodgers or Brett Favre isn’t there to cover up his deficiencies.

Noe, he has Dak, Zeke, and Amari just to name a few on his Cowboys squad and he was one and done.

3) Brian Billick, Baltimore Ravens

Brian Billick was an average coach at best and if it werenโ€™t for the 2000 Ravens, who went 12-4 en route to a Super Bowl XXXV victory over the Giants, people wouldn’t remember him. The 2000 Ravens had one of the greatest defenses in NFL history and an anaemic offense. Billick was known for being an offensive guru but in his time at Baltimore, the Ravens were never better than average on offense while the defense was the main point of the team.

2) Gary Kubiak, Denver Broncos

ย As a head coach Kubiak has a 73-68 regular-season record, winning only 51.8% of his games. He took over the Broncos in 2015 and won the Super Bowl that year based on a great defense that was coached by Wade Phillips. Remember the Broncos were in the Super Bowl two years earlier, so it wasn’t like he had to build a team. This team won because of the defense, led by Phillips, and the front office led by General Manager John Elway.

1) Barry Switzer, Dallas Cowboys

Switzer was a great college coach, but then again his players at Oklahoma may have been better taken care of than the Cowboys. Switzer walked into a perfect situation and after dropping the 1994 NFC Championship game to the 49ers, he came back to beat the Packers in the 1995 NFC Championship game and eventually beat the Neil O’Donnell-led Steelers in the Super Bowl.ย ย Switzer went 40-24 during his regular season with the Cowboys and 5-2 in the postseason. What hurts Switzerโ€™s NFL legacy the most is, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was probably right when he said that anybody could have won a Super Bowl with The Triplets (Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irvin).

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