Only five NFL HC's have been with their current NFL teams longer than Sean McDermott.
Andy Ried,
Bill Bellichek,
Pete Carrol,
John Harbaugh
Mike Tomlin
All have Super Bowl wins. And multiple appearances.
Head coaches with shorter tenures and super bowl appearances include
Sean McVay (hired same year as McDermott)
Kyle Shanahan (hired same year as McDermott)
Zac Taylor
As an aside here are co
It seems most people have this vision of a slow grind of building a team and then advancing step by step through the years. In real life, it is more like catching lightning in a bottle. In the NFL the lightning is getting the right Starting QB / HC combo. During the super bowl era, this is a list of how long each Starting QB/HC combo was together before winning their first champhionship together. A couple of notes, Lombardi/Starr won NFL championships together before the Super Bowl era. St