List of Seattle Seahawks head coaches

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Mike McCormack, the current coach of the Seahawks has coached the team since 1999.
Mike McCormack, the current coach of the Seahawks has coached the team since 1999.

This is a complete list of Seattle Seahawks head coaches. The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington, USA. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team, along with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, joined the NFL in 1976 as expansion teams. Seattle is the only team to have played in both the AFC (American Football Conference) and NFC Championship Games. The Seahawks have one Super Bowl appearance, Super Bowl XL.

There have been 6 coaches for the Seahawks. The best coaching record is held by the current coach, Mike Holmgren who has coached the team since 1999. He is followed by Chuck Knox, who coached the team from 1983 to 1991. Mike McCormack is the only Hall of Fame coach to ever coach the Seahawks.

[edit] Key

      Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame
      Spent entire professional head coaching career with Seahawks

# Number of coaches[1]
GC Games Coached
W Wins
L Loses
T Ties
W – L % Win – Loss percentage
– Returning from previous year(s) of coaching

[edit] Coaches

# Name Term Regular Season Playoffs Awards Reference
GC W L T W–L % GC W L
1 Jack Patera 1976–1982 94 58 36 0 0.617 – – – [2]
2 Mike McCormack 1982 7 3 4 0 0.428 – – – [3]
3 Chuck Knox 1983–1991 141 78 63 0 0.553 7 3 4 [4]
4 Tom Flores 1991–1994 48 14 34 0 0.291 – – – [5]
5 Dennis Erickson 1995–1998 64 31 33 0 0.484 – – – [6]
6 Mike Holmgren 1999–’’Present’’ 144 82 86 0.569 – – –

[edit] References

  1. ^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Bears. Thus any coach who has two separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
  2. ^ Jack Patera. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-19.
  3. ^ Mike McCormack. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-19.
  4. ^ Check Knox. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-19.
  5. ^ Tom Flores. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-19.
  6. ^ Dennis Erickson. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-19.
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