List of Cincinnati Bengals head coaches

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There have been a total of nine head coaches of the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals are a professional American football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio.[1] and are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). Their first season, 1968, was as an American Football League franchise, but they joined the NFL as part of the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger (which had been agreed to in 1966).[1]

Paul Brown and Forrest Gregg are the only two coaches to make it into the Hall of Fame.[1] Brown and Gregg are also the only two coaches in the Bengals to with the UPI coach of the year. Gregg is the best coach statistically, with a winning percentage of 0.561. Dick LeBeau, who coach coached the Bengals from 2000 to 2002 is statistically the poorest coach with a winning percentage of 0.261.

Hall of Fame coaches Brown and Gregg, along with Sam Wyche and current coach Marvin Lewis have all lead the Bengals into the playoffs. Bill Johnson, Homer Rice, Dave Shula, Dick LeBeau and Lewis spent their entire career coaching the Bengals. The first coach of the Bengals, Brown, coached the team the longest, from 1968 to 1975.

[edit] Key

      Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame
      Spent entire professional head coaching career with Bengals

# Number of coaches[2]
GC Games Coached
W Wins
L Loses
T Ties
W–L % Win–Loss percentage
† Spent entire professional head coaching career with Bengals
* Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame


[edit] Coaches

# Name Term Regular Season Playoffs Awards Reference
GC W L T W–L % GC W L
1 Paul Brown* 1968–1975 112 55 56 1 0.495 3 0 3 UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1969, 1970) [3]
2 Bill Johnson† 1976–1978 33 18 15 0 0.545 – – – [4]
3 Homer Rice† 1978–1979 27 8 19 0 0.296 – – – [5]
4 Forrest Gregg* 1980–1983 57 32 25 0 0.561 4 2 2 UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1981) [6]
5 Sam Wyche 1978–1991 121 61 66 0 0.480 5 3 2 [7]
6 Dave Shula† 1992–1992 71 19 52 0 0.268 – – – [8]
7 Bruce Coslet 1996–2000 60 21 39 0 0.350 – – – [9]
8 Dick LeBeau† 2000–2002 45 12 33 0 0.267 – – – [10]
9 Marvin Lewis† 2003–Present 80 42 38 0 0.525 1 0 1 [11]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c Cincinnati Bengals History. bengals.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-27.
  2. ^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Bengals. Thus any coach who has two separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
  3. ^ Paul Brown. Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
  4. ^ Paul Brown. Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
  5. ^ Paul Brown. Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
  6. ^ Forrest Gregg. Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
  7. ^ Sam Wyche. Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
  8. ^ Dave Shula. Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
  9. ^ Bruce Coslet. Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
  10. ^ Dick LeBeau. Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
  11. ^ Marvin Lewis. Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
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