List of New England Patriots head coaches

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Bill Belichick is the current head coach of the Patriots and has led the team to three Super Bowl championships.
Bill Belichick is the current head coach of the Patriots and has led the team to three Super Bowl championships.

This is a complete list of New England Patriots head coaches. There have been 14 head coaches for the New England Patriots football franchise. The team began as the Boston Patriots in the American Football League, a league which merged with the National Football League prior to the 1970 season.[1]

Lou Saban became the first coach of the New England Patriots in 1960, though he was fired part way through their second season.[2] In terms of tenure, Bill Belichick, the current coach, has led the team for more games (128) and more complete seasons (eight) than any other head coach. He has also led the team to four of their Super Bowl appearances, winning three of them. Mike Holovak, Raymond Berry, and Bill Parcells all led the Patriots to league championship games, though all three lost. Five Patriots head coaches, Holovak, Chuck Fairbanks, Berry, Parcells, and Belichick, have been named coach of the year by at least one major news organization. Additionally, Raymond Berry is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1973, eleven years before he became the Patriots' head coach.[3]

Twice in Patriots history there were "interim" head coaches. In 1972, John Mazur resigned with five games left in the season. [4] Phil Bengston was named as the interim head coach for the rest of the season, during which he only won one game, and he was not made the permanent coach the next year. In 1978, head coach Fairbanks secretly made a deal to leave the team to coach the University of Colorado Buffaloes while he was still coaching Patriots. Team owner Billy Sullivan suspended Fairbanks for the final game of the regular season, stating "You cannot serve two masters," and Ron Erhardt and Hank Bullough took co-head coaching responsibilities for that game.[5] Fairbanks was reinstated when the team qualified for the playoffs, and he lost the first playoff game, his last for the Patriots. The statistics are through the end of the 2007 NFL season.

[edit] Key

# Number of coaches
GC Games Coached
W Wins
L Loses
T Ties
W – L % Win – Loss percentage
* Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame


[edit] Coaches

See also: History of New England Patriots head coaches
Mike Holovak led the Boston Patriots for most of their years in the AFL and coached the team in the 1963 AFL Championship game.
Mike Holovak led the Boston Patriots for most of their years in the AFL and coached the team in the 1963 AFL Championship game.
Pete Carroll was the head coach for the New England Patriots from 1997 to 1999.
Pete Carroll was the head coach for the New England Patriots from 1997 to 1999.
# Name Term Regular season Playoffs Awards Reference
GC W L T W – L % GC W L
Boston Patriots
1 Lou Saban 1960–1961 19 7 12 0 0.368 – – – [6]
2 Mike Holovak 1961–1968 107 52 46 9 0.528 2 1 1 UPI AFL Coach of the Year (1966)[7] [8]
3 Clive Rush 1969–1970 21 5 16 0 0.238 – –  – [9]
New England Patriots
4 John Mazur 1970–1972 34 9 21 0 0.300  –  – – [4]
5 Phil Bengtson 1972[10] 5 1 4 0 0.200 – –  – [11]
6 Chuck Fairbanks 1973–1978[12] 85 46 39 0 0.541 2 0 2 UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1976)[13]

Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year (1976)

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7 Ron Erhardt 1979–1981[15] 49 21 28 0 0.428 –  –  – [16]
8 Ron Meyer 1982–1984 33 18 15 0 0.545 1 0 1 [17]
9 Raymond Berry* 1984–1989 87 48 39 0 0.551 5 3 2 UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1985) [18]
10 Rod Rust 1990 16 1 15 0 0.062 –  – – [19]
11 Dick MacPherson 1991–1992 32 8 24 0 0.250  –  – – [20]
12 Bill Parcells 1993–1996 64 32 32 0 0.500 4 2 2 AP NFL Coach of the Year (1994)

Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year (1994)
Maxwell Football Club NFL Coach of the Year (1994)
UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1994)

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13 Pete Carroll 1997–1999 48 27 21 0 0.562 3 1 2 [22]
14 Bill Belichick 2000–Present 128 91 37 0 0.711 17 14 3 AP NFL Coach of the Year (2003, 2007)

Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year (2003)
Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year (2003)
Maxwell Football Club NFL Coach of the Year (2007)

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[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Boston Patriots. Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2008-05-13.
  2. ^ Buffalo Bills. Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2008-05-13.
  3. ^ Raymond Berry profile. Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2008-04-24.
  4. ^ a b Grossfeld, Stan. "For Mazur, the scars remain", The Boston Globe. Retrieved on 2008-05-14. 
  5. ^ Borges, Ron. "Butt of jokes to last laugh", The Boston Globe. Retrieved on 2008-04-26. 
  6. ^ Lou Saban. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
  7. ^ Gruver, Ed (1997). The American Football League: A Year-by-year History, 1960-1969. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, p. 276. ISBN 0-7864-0399-3. 
  8. ^ Mike Holovak. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
  9. ^ Clive Rush. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
  10. ^ Phil Bengtson was the interim head coach for five games during the 1972 season.
  11. ^ New England Patriots (1960-present). sports e-cyclopedia. Retrieved on 2008-05-14.
  12. ^ Chuck Fairbanks was suspended for the last game of the 1978 regular season. He was reinstated for the playoffs, and lost in the first round.
  13. ^ Chuck Fairbanks Head Coach. New England Patriots. Retrieved on 2008-04-24.
  14. ^ Chuck Fairbanks. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
  15. ^ Roh Erhardt's record includes one game where he shared head coaching duties with Hank Bullough during Chuck Fairbanks 1978 suspension. His first official year as head coach of the Patriots was 1979.
  16. ^ Ron Erhardt. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
  17. ^ Ron Meyer. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
  18. ^ Raymond Berry. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
  19. ^ Rod Rust. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
  20. ^ Dick MacPherson. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
  21. ^ Bill Parcells. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
  22. ^ Pete Carroll. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
  23. ^ Bill Belichick. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
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New England Patriots
The Franchise
Stadiums
Culture
Lore
Head Coaches
Saban • Holovak • Rush • Mazur • Bengtson • Fairbanks • Erhardt • Meyer • Berry • Rust • MacPherson • Parcells • Carroll • Belichick
Division Championships (11)
1963, 1978, 1986, 1996 • 1997, 2001, 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007
Super Bowl Appearances (6)
XX • XXXI • XXXVI • XXXVIII • XXXIX • XLII
League Championships (3)
Retired Numbers
20, 40, 57, 73, 78, 79, 89
Seasons
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Current League Affiliations
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Boston/New England Patriots Head Coaches
Saban • Holovak • Rush • Mazur • Bengtson • Fairbanks • Erhardt • Meyer • Berry • Rust • MacPherson • Parcells • Carroll • Belichick
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List of NFL head coaches by team