Belichick among 12 final coaches for HOF class

Six-time Super Bowl winning caput manager Bill Belichick precocious to the last 12 coaches successful moving for the 2026 people for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Belichick is successful his archetypal twelvemonth of eligibility aft regularisation changes enactment successful spot past twelvemonth requiring coaches lone to beryllium retired of the NFL for 1 afloat play earlier being considered for the Hall.

Two-time Super Bowl champion coaches Tom Coughlin, Mike Shanahan and George Seifert besides advanced, on with different Super Bowl victor successful Mike Holmgren.

The different coaches successful the moving are Bill Arnsparger, Alex Gibbs, Chuck Knox, Buddy Parker, Dan Reeves, Marty Schottenheimer and Clark Shaughnessy.

A blue-ribbon committee volition trim the tract to 9 semifinalists adjacent period and yet down to 1 finalist. Holmgren earned that spot past twelvemonth but fell abbreviated successful the last vote. The manager volition beryllium grouped with 1 contributor and 3 seniors candidates. Between 1 and 3 of those 5 finalists volition marque it to the Hall based connected getting astatine slightest 80% of the votes from the afloat committee.

Belichick was the designer of the New England Patriots dynasty successful the 2000s, starring the franchise to six Super Bowl titles and 3 different appearances successful the crippled during an 18-year span from 2001-18. Belichick's 333 wins successful the regular play and playoffs with New England and Cleveland are the second-most to Don Shula's 347.

Belichick besides was 1 the game's apical antiaircraft assistants earlier taking implicit New England, winning 2 much Super Bowls arsenic antiaircraft coordinator for the New York Giants.

Belichick's tenure successful New England ended pursuing the 2023 play and helium is present coaching successful assemblage astatine North Carolina with a squad that is 2-4 successful his archetypal season.

Belichick, Coughlin, Shanahan and Seifert are among the 14 coaches who person won aggregate Super Bowls. Nine of those coaches are already in, with Andy Reid inactive progressive arsenic the other.

Coughlin coached 20 years for Jacksonville and the New York Giants. He led the Jaguars to the AFC rubric crippled successful their 2nd play arsenic a franchise and backmost again successful the 1999 season. But his top occurrence came aft taking implicit the Giants successful 2004.

He led the franchise to a Super Bowl rubric successful the 2007 play erstwhile New York upset the undefeated Patriots and past knocked disconnected Belichick, Tom Brady and New England again 4 years later. Coughlin finished with a 170-150 regular-season record.

Seifert helped San Francisco triumph 2 titles arsenic a antiaircraft coordinator nether Bill Walsh and past 2 much arsenic caput manager aft taking implicit for Walsh successful 1989.

He won astatine slightest 10 games successful each 8 seasons successful complaint of the 49ers with his 98-30 grounds (.766) the champion for immoderate manager connected a azygous squad with astatine slightest 100 games. But helium was incapable to duplicate that occurrence successful 3 seasons with Carolina, going 16-32.

Shanahan was the violative coordinator nether Seifert connected San Francisco's 1994 title squad and past won back-to-back titles arsenic caput manager successful Denver successful 1997-98. Shanahan finished with a 170-138 grounds for the Raiders, Broncos and Washington and his interaction connected the crippled is inactive beardown contiguous done his disciples, including his son, Kyle, who coaches San Francisco.

Four different existent NFL caput coaches worked nether Shanahan successful Washington - Sean McVay, Mike McDaniel, Matt LaFleur and Raheem Morris - and the violative strategy helium brought into the league that tied the extracurricular portion tally with the passing crippled is inactive the astir prevalent successful the league today.

Gibbs was the long-time violative enactment manager for Shanahan successful Denver and helped instrumentality the zone-running strategy that was the instauration of the offense.

Holmgren preceded Shanahan arsenic violative coordinator successful San Francisco and besides had a large interaction connected aboriginal coaches with Reid and Jon Gruden going connected to triumph Super Bowls aft moving nether Holmgren successful Green Bay. Holmgren had a 161-111 grounds for the Packers and Seahawks, winning the rubric successful 1996. He besides got to the Super Bowl the pursuing play successful Green Bay and past again successful the 2005 play successful Seattle.