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Week Ten: Detroit Lions (7-1) @ Houston Texans (6-3)


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On 11/11/2024 at 2:23 PM, RedRamage said:

Dan Campbell is now one of only eight Lions coaches who have 30 or more wins. And on a side note if I had a nickel for every Lions head coach who was named Clark I'd have 15 cents... which isn't a lot of it's odd that it's happened three times.

66 - Fontes
53 - Clark, Potsy
53 - Wilson
47 - Parker
43 - Schmidt
43 - Clark, Monte
36 - Caldwell
31 - Campbell
 

Edit to add: These are regular season wins btw. Wanna look at post season? It ain't pretty...

3 - Parker
2 - Wilson
2 - Campbell
1 - Clark
1 - Fontes

The Big Buck is still the best. It's amazing to think that Rasputin is the best coach we've had in franchise history. That is really an indictment on what a terrible pool of coaches we've had to chose from over the years.

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9 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

The Big Buck is still the best. It's amazing to think that Rasputin is the best coach we've had in franchise history. That is really an indictment on what a terrible pool of coaches we've had to chose from over the years.

Well "best" is somewhat subjective. "Win Total" is a product of skill and longevity. If you're just good enough that an overtly loyal owner doesn't get annoyed enough or feel pressure from fans enough to fire you, then you can rack up a pretty decent win total.

If we did it based on regular season winning percentage, minimum of 10 games as head coach, then we get:

.667 Parker (47/23)
.636 Clark, Dutch (14/8)
.624 Clark, Potsy (53/25)
.563 Caldwell (36/28)
.554 Schmidt (43/34)
.542 Campbell (32/27)
.538 Wilson (53/45)
.496 Fontes (66/67)
 

On a side note, I just looked up the NFL coaching list based on win total and Fontes is tied with two others for #74 on that list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_head_coach_wins_leaders. Shout out to Norm Van Brocklin, one of the coaches tied with Fontes. Norm obviously have 66 wins but he's got that paired with 100 losses, giving him a .398 winning percentage... the worst of any of the top 100 winningest coaches.

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