The Most Underachieving NFL Head Coaches Ever For All 32 Teams
By Erik Lambert
Joe Schmidt (Detroit Lions)
Joe Schmidt is a Hall of Fame football player and one of the best defensive players in the history of the league, winning NFL defensive player of the year twice with the Detroit Lions and earning 10 Pro Bowl selections, eight All-Pro selections, and two NFL titles.
All of his accolades as a player didn’t add up to the type of success the Lions hoped he would have as head coach of the team, however.
After his playing days, Schmidt became head coach of the Lions in 1967 and finished a six-year coaching career with a record of 43-34-7.
How do you finish seven games in a tie over six years? That’s incredible.
Schmidt said after those six years that coaching was more of a burden than it was fun, so he got out of it, never finishing higher than second place in the standings.