List of Atlanta Falcons head coaches
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The Atlanta Falcons are an American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are currently members of the Southern division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Falcons joined the NFL as an expansion team in 1966 and have compiled an all-time record of 262–386–6 with division championships in 1980, 1998 and 2004, along with an appearance in Super Bowl XXXIII in Miami, Florida.[1]
Wade Phillips currently holds the best coaching record for the Atlanta Falcons with a win percentage of 0.666, winning two out of the three games he coached.[2] Statistically, Jim Hanifan, who has won no games, holds the poorest coaching record. However, Norb Hecker, who has coached thirty games, won only four. The Falcons last appearance in the playoffs was in 2004 while under Jim L. Mora. After Mora left the team in 2006, the Falcons hired Bobby Petrino who coached for only one year, during which the Bad Newz Kennels dog fighting investigation was under way which ultimately resulted in a prison term for former quarterback Michael Vick, and to Petrino's resignation. The Falcons would then sign coach Mike Smith at the end of the 2007 season.[3]
Only four coaches have led the Falcons into the playoffs: Leeman Bennett, Jerry Glanville, Dan Reeves and Jim L. Mora. Since the team's debut in 1966, the Falcons have not won a Super Bowl.
[edit] Key
| # | Number of coaches[4] |
| GC | Games Coached |
| W | Wins |
| L | Loses |
| T | Ties |
| W – L % | Win – Loss percentage |
| * | Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame |
[edit] Coaches
| # | Name | Term | Regular Season | Playoffs | Awards | Reference | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GC | W | L | T | W–L % | GC | W | L | |||||
| 1 | Norb Hecker | 1966–1968 | 30 | 4 | 26 | 0 | 0.133 | – | – | – | [5] | |
| 2 | Norm Van Brocklin* | 1968-1974 | 86 | 37 | 49 | 3 | 0.430 | – | – | – | [6] | |
| 3 | Marion Campbell | 1974–1976 | 25 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 0.240 | – | – | – | [7] | |
| 4 | Pat Peppler | 1976 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0.333 | – | – | – | [8] | |
| 5 | Leeman Bennett | 1977–1982 | 87 | 46 | 41 | 0 | 0.528 | 4 | 1 | 3 | UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1977, 1980)[9] | [10] |
| 6 | Dan Henning | 1983–1986 | 63 | 22 | 41 | 1 | 0.349 | – | – | – | [11] | |
| – | Marion Campbell | 1987-1989 | 43 | 11 | 32 | 0 | 0.255 | – | – | – | [7] | |
| 7 | Jim Hanifan | 1989 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0.000 | – | – | – | [12] | |
| 8 | Jerry Glanville | 1990-1993 | 64 | 27 | 37 | 0 | 0.421 | 2 | 1 | 1 | [13] | |
| 9 | June Jones | 1994-1996 | 48 | 19 | 29 | 0 | 0.395 | – | – | – | [14] | |
| 10 | Dan Reeves | 1997–2003 | 108 | 49 | 59 | 1 | 0.453 | 5 | 3 | 2 | AP NFL Coach of the Year (1998)[15] | [16] |
| 11 | Wade Phillips | 2003 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.666 | – | – | – | [17] | |
| 12 | Jim L. Mora | 2004–2006 | 48 | 26 | 22 | 0 | 0.541 | 2 | 1 | 1 | [18] | |
| 13 | Bobby Petrino | 2007 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0.230 | – | – | – | [19] | |
| 14 | Emmitt Thomas | 2007 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0.333 | – | – | – | [20] | |
| 15 | Mike Smith | 2008–Present | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
[edit] Notes
- ^ Atlanta Falcons. Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
- ^ Wade Phillips. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
- ^ Pasquarelli, Len. Falcons make Jags assistant Smith new head coach. ESPN. Retrieved on 2008-05-10.
- ^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Falcons. Thus any coach who has two separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
- ^ Norb Hecker. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
- ^ Norm Van Brocklin. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
- ^ a b Marion Campbell. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
- ^ Pat Peppler. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
- ^ Leeman Bennett. Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
- ^ Leeman Bennett. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
- ^ Dan Henning. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
- ^ Jim Hanifan. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
- ^ Jerry Glanville. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
- ^ June Jones. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
- ^ Daniel Edward Reeves. Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
- ^ Dan Reeves. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
- ^ Wade Phillips. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
- ^ Jim L. Mora. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
- ^ Bobby Petrino. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
- ^ Emmitt Thomas. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
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