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The Most Underachieving NFL Head Coaches Ever For All 32 Teams

By Erik Lambert

KANSAS CITY, MO - AUGUST 30: Head coach Mike McCarthy of the Green Bay Packers motions from the sidelines during the preseason game against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium on August 30, 2018 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
KANSAS CITY, MO - AUGUST 30: Head coach Mike McCarthy of the Green Bay Packers motions from the sidelines during the preseason game against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium on August 30, 2018 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) /
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16 Nov 1998: Kansas City Chiefs head coach Marty Schottenheimer looks on during a game against the Denver Broncos at the Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. The Broncos defeated the Chiefs 30-7. Mandatory Credit: Matthew Stockman /Allsport
16 Nov 1998: Kansas City Chiefs head coach Marty Schottenheimer looks on during a game against the Denver Broncos at the Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. The Broncos defeated the Chiefs 30-7. Mandatory Credit: Matthew Stockman /Allsport /

Marty Schottenheimer (Kansas City Chiefs)

The decade of Marty-ball in Kansas City was a prosperous one as far as regular season play goes. The Chiefs were neck-and-neck with John Elway and the Broncos for the better part of his prime years in Denver, even taking some division crowns away from one of the greatest to ever do it.

Schottenheimer is a great head football coach but his regular season record has significantly outshined his teams’ ability to perform in postseason play.

With a regular season record of 200-126, Schottenheimer is rightfully known as one of the best game-planners in the history of the game. His postseason record of 5-13, however, is abysmal.

Schottenheimer’s Chiefs teams from 1989-1998 are in the history books as some of the best teams to never win a championship. He won the AFC West three times in the mid-90s including finishing with a record of 13-3 in 1995 and 1997, but the Chiefs lost to the Broncos in the playoffs in 1997, watched them win a Super Bowl, and then lost nine games the next season.

Schottenheimer was let go after that year and coached one year with the Redskins before enjoying more regular season success and postseason woes with the San Diego Chargers.

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