The risky thing about being a successful NFL head coach is outlasting your great quarterback.
The Steelers’ Mike Tomlin and Seahawks’ Pete Carroll are discovering that reality this season, as moving on after Ben Roethlisberger and Russell Wilson, respectively, is proving to be a roller coaster. It’s nothing the Patriots’ Bill Belichick couldn’t have warned them about.
If finding a franchise quarterback is the hardest thing to do in sports scouting – as some believe – imagine all the things that have to go right to find two in a row. John Harbaugh, Andy Reid and Mike McCarthy don’t have to imagine.
Those are the six active coaches with the most career wins in NFL history – all with at least 139 and a grand total among them of 1,121. To no surprise, each of the six had the same primary quarterback for at least 10 seasons.
