I know that Dick Jauron is an awful coach, one of the worst coaches to coach multiple seasons in NFL history. But I didn't realize just HOW bad he is until I checked some stats here
I went to the coaches section, and sorted by games played. I picked an arbitrary starting point of 125 games or more coached as a 'seasoned' head coach. In other words, at least 8 seasons as H.C.
There are 66 coaches that have coached 125 or more games. The five worst of those in terms of averages are
John McKay - 133 games - 0.333 average
Don Caper - 128 games - 0.375 average
Norm Van Brocklin - 173 games - 0.398 average
Joe Kucharich - 142 games - 0.417 average
Dick Jauron - 141 games - 0.426 average
There's an outside chance Marv Levy's best boy Dickie will actually nudge out Kucharich for the 4th worst in NFL History by the end of this season. But poor Dick can't move up into the top 3 spots of my category even with 3 consecutive 6-10 seasons for the remainder of his 3 year extension. That would make his average ~ 0.410. He'll never approach the epic badness of Caper, McKay or Van Brocklin.
So even as a loser, Jauron is merely mediocre.
The bad news is - Van Brocklin coached 173 games vs 141 for Jauron. So it IS possible Jauron could be back for 2 more years - because at least one coach even worst than Jauron has coached for more years.
I went to the coaches section, and sorted by games played. I picked an arbitrary starting point of 125 games or more coached as a 'seasoned' head coach. In other words, at least 8 seasons as H.C.
There are 66 coaches that have coached 125 or more games. The five worst of those in terms of averages are
John McKay - 133 games - 0.333 average
Don Caper - 128 games - 0.375 average
Norm Van Brocklin - 173 games - 0.398 average
Joe Kucharich - 142 games - 0.417 average
Dick Jauron - 141 games - 0.426 average
There's an outside chance Marv Levy's best boy Dickie will actually nudge out Kucharich for the 4th worst in NFL History by the end of this season. But poor Dick can't move up into the top 3 spots of my category even with 3 consecutive 6-10 seasons for the remainder of his 3 year extension. That would make his average ~ 0.410. He'll never approach the epic badness of Caper, McKay or Van Brocklin.
So even as a loser, Jauron is merely mediocre.
The bad news is - Van Brocklin coached 173 games vs 141 for Jauron. So it IS possible Jauron could be back for 2 more years - because at least one coach even worst than Jauron has coached for more years.
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