NFL Coaches Quiz — 10 Free Questions

Question 1

This coach compiled 347 wins including the playoffs over 33 seasons with the Colts and Dolphins, and also coached the most games in NFL history. He reached six Super Bowls, won two, and guided the only perfect season. Which coach holds the record for most career victories?

Question 2

This coach won Super Bowl IV and was wired for sound by NFL Films that day, narrating his own play calls with lines like 'matriculate the ball down the field.' He led one franchise from the AFL's founding through the mid-1970s. Which coach is this?

Question 3

Fired by Al Davis after just 20 games early in his career, this coach later won back-to-back Super Bowls with a Hall of Fame quarterback in that quarterback's final seasons. His son later became a Super Bowl head coach too. Which coach is this?

Question 4

This coach rebuilt a long-woeful franchise with a fast 'Cover 2' defense but was fired before it broke through, and a different coach won a title with his roster a year later. He then won a Super Bowl with another team. Which coach is this?

Question 5

Don Shula, Chuck Noll, Weeb Ewbank and Bill Walsh all worked early in their careers, as players or assistants, for which innovative head coach? He founded two franchises, one of which still bears his name, and introduced the modern playbook and systematic film study. Which coach is this?

Question 6

Adopted in 2003, this NFL policy requires teams to interview at least one minority candidate for head-coaching vacancies, and it has since been widened to coordinator and front-office jobs. It is named after the longtime owner of which franchise, a man who chaired the league's diversity committee?

Question 7

This coach shares the record for most Super Bowl losses, going 0-4: three defeats as head coach of the Denver Broncos in the 1980s and one with the Atlanta Falcons after the 1998 season. He had also lost Super Bowls years earlier as a Cowboys player. Which coach is this?

Question 8

Among head coaches with at least 100 career wins, this man has the highest regular-season winning percentage, .759, achieved across just 10 seasons with one team, none of them a losing one. He walked away at 42, burned out, and became a broadcaster. Which coach is this?

Question 9

Doug Pederson, Matt Nagy, Sean McDermott, Ron Rivera and John Harbaugh all coached under which head coach before running their own teams? He built the tree across two long stints, in Philadelphia and Kansas City, and is the winningest active coach. Which coach is this?

Question 10

In his very first season as an NFL head coach, this man took over a team from a legend who had just left for another club, and led it to a last-second win in Super Bowl V. He became the first rookie head coach to win the game, and only one other has done it since. Which coach is this?

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About NFL Coaches

The head coach is the face of an NFL franchise, and a handful of them have defined whole eras. George Halas and Curly Lambeau were founder-owner-coaches who built the league itself. Paul Brown professionalized the job with playbooks, film study and messenger plays, then did it twice, in Cleveland and Cincinnati. Vince Lombardi turned Green Bay into a dynasty and won the first two Super Bowls, and the trophy now carries his name.

The record book belongs to a small group. Don Shula won 347 games and coached the only perfect season. Bill Belichick won six Super Bowls and reached nine, both records, and has the most playoff wins. Chuck Noll won four titles in the 1970s and never a Coach of the Year award. George Seifert and John Madden posted the best winning percentages, and Andy Reid became the winningest active coach while building a coaching tree that now spans the league.

Not every great coach got the ring. Marv Levy lost four straight Super Bowls with Buffalo, Bud Grant four with Minnesota, and Dan Reeves four with two franchises. Marty Schottenheimer won 200 games but went 5-13 in January, and Jeff Fisher lost more games than anyone while reaching just one Super Bowl, by a single yard.

The firsts matter too. Fritz Pollard was a Black head coach in 1921, more than 60 years before Art Shell broke through in the modern era. Tom Flores was the first Hispanic head coach to win a Super Bowl, Tony Dungy the first Black one, and the Rooney Rule, named for a Pittsburgh owner, reshaped how the jobs are filled. This quiz runs through 60 clues on the coaches, their records and their milestones: name the man on the headset, and get the full story after each answer.