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While the NFL will always be a league where the Jimmys and Joes matter more than Xs and Os, having an elite coach can elevate a good team into a true Super Bowl contender.
Meanwhile, having a bad coach with a good roster can easily sink the hopes of an organization.
These days, the NFL is littered with head coaches with impressive resumes, as well as young coaches who are making names for themselves in quick fashion.
But who are the 10 best head coaches in the NFL today?
If you ask 10 different people this question, there’s a good chance you get 10 different lists. After all, there is no objective measure of what makes a great head coach.
Plenty of “lesser” coaches have won more due to the personnel at their disposal. Meanwhile, a great coach can only take a bad team so far.
Still, there is, generally speaking, a shared understanding of which coaches in the NFL are among the best. So without further ado, here is our list of the 10 best coaches in the league today.
Each of these four coaches has an extremely solid argument to make the top 10 list. But all fall short for various reasons.
Many believe LaFleur could lead Green Bay to a Super Bowl this season, but he hasn’t reached those heights yet. McDermott has had immense success in Buffalo, but questionable late-game decisions and clock management have left fans wondering why the Bills haven’t won even more.
Bowles is still trying to shake the image of a rough run with the New York Jets and has largely benefitted from coaching in the NFL’s worst division, while Carroll’s best days may well be behind him.
That being said, all are generally considered solid-to-good NFL head coaches, and most teams would be happy to have them.
Mike Tomlin is in year 19 as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He has still yet to finish a season below .500.
While many will point to the fact that Tomlin and the Steelers haven’t been genuine title contenders for several years, that is an absolutely insane run of consistency.
Tomlin is the standard for a good NFL head coach, which makes him the perfect candidate to slot in at No. 10 in our list. If he could simply find a good quarterback and maybe stop hiring bad offensive coordinators, Tomlin could easily move up this list in the future. But those shortcomings mean that, at least for now, he lands on the back end of the top 10.
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