List of Atlanta Falcons head coaches

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The Atlanta Falcons are an American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are members of the South division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Falcons joined the NFL as an expansion team in 1966 and have compiled an all-time record of 330–432–6 in the regular season with a 7–12 record in the playoffs and division championships in 1980, 1998, 2004, 2010, and 2012 along with an appearance in Super Bowl XXXIII in Miami, Florida.[1]

There have been 16 head coaches for the Falcons franchise, 12 serving full-time. Mike Smith is the winningest full-time coach in Falcons history by both winning percentage and total number of games won with a 66–46 regular season record (.589 winning percentage) in his tenure as head coach. Under Smith's leadership, the team attained consecutive winning seasons (11–5 in 2008 and 9–7 in 2009), consecutive playoff appearances (2010 and 2011), and consecutive seasons with 10 wins or more (also in 2010 and 2011) for the first time in its history. Also, Smith is the only Falcons coach to win 2 divisional titles (NFC South, 2010 and 2012). Statistically, Jim Hanifan, who has won no games, holds the poorest coaching record. However, Norb Hecker, who has coached thirty games as full-time head coach, won only four.

Five coaches have led the Falcons into the playoffs: Leeman Bennett, Jerry Glanville, Dan Reeves, Jim L. Mora, and Mike Smith. Since the team's debut in 1966, the Falcons have not won a Super Bowl.

Key

# Number of coaches[a]
GC Games coached
W Wins
L Loses
T Ties
Win% Winning percentage
00† Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach
00‡ Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player
00* Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Falcons

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Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the 2015 NFL season.

# Name Term[b] Regular season Playoffs Awards Ref.
GC W L T Win% GC W L
1 Norb Hecker* 1966–1968* 31 4 26 1 .133 [2]
2 Norm Van Brocklin* ‡ 1968–1974 89 37 49 3 .430 [3]
3 Marion Campbell[c] 1974–1976 25 6 19 0 .240 [4]
4 Pat Peppler* 1976* 9 3 6 0 .333 [5]
5 Leeman Bennett 1977–1982 87 46 41 0 .529 4 1 3 UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1977, 1980)[6] [7]
6 Dan Henning 1983–1986 64 22 41 1 .349 [8]
 – Marion Campbell[c] 1987–1989 43 11 32 0 .255 [4]
7 Jim Hanifan 1989 4 0 4 0 .000 [9]
8 Jerry Glanville 1990–1993 64 27 37 0 .422 2 1 1 [10]
9 June Jones 1994–1996 48 19 29 0 .395 [11]
10 Dan Reeves 1997–2003 109 49 59 1 .454 5 3 2 AP NFL Coach of the Year (1998)[12] [13]
11 Wade Phillips 2003 3 2 1 0 .666 [14]
12 Jim L. Mora 2004–2006 48 26 22 0 .541 2 1 1 [15]
13 Bobby Petrino* 2007* 13 3 10 0 .231 [16]
14 Emmitt Thomas* ‡ 2007* 3 1 2 0 .333 [17]
15 Mike Smith* 2008–2014* 112 66 46 0 .589 5 1 4 AP NFL Coach of the Year (2008)[18] [19]
16 Dan Quinn* 2015–present* 16 8 8 0 .500 [20]

Notes

  • a A running total of the number of coaches of the Falcons. Thus, any coach who has two separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
  • b Each year is linked to an article about that particular season.
  • c Marion Campbell's full coaching record with the Falcons is 68 regular season games coached with a record of 17–51–0 and a W–L percentage of .250.

References

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