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The
New England Patriots
are a professional
American football
team based in
Foxborough, Massachusetts
. They are a member of the
East Division
of the
American Football Conference
(AFC) in the
National Football League
(NFL). The team began as the Boston Patriots in the
American Football League
, a league which
merged
with the
National Football League
before the
1970 season
.
[1]
There have been 15 head coaches for the Patriots franchise.
Lou Saban
became the first coach of the Patriots in 1960, although he was fired part way through their second season.
[2]
The 15th and current head coach is
Jerod Mayo
, who was hired in 2024.
[3]
Mayo replaced longtime head coach
Bill Belichick
, who led the team for more regular season games (387), post-season games (41) and complete seasons (24) than any other head coach. His 266 wins with the Patriots are far and away the most in franchise history, more than five times those of runner-up
Mike Holovak
. Belichick also led the team to nine of their eleven
Super Bowl
appearances, winning six of them. Holovak,
Raymond Berry
and
Bill Parcells
all led the Patriots to league championship games, with only one (Holovak) failing to reach the Super Bowl. Five Patriots head coaches, Holovak,
Chuck Fairbanks
, Berry, Parcells, and Belichick, have been named
coach of the year
by at least one major news organization. Additionally, Raymond Berry and Bill Parcells are members of the
Pro Football Hall of Fame
, with Berry being inducted in 1973, and Parcells in 2013.
[4]
[5]
Twice in Patriots history there were "interim" head coaches. In 1972, John Mazur resigned with five games left in the season.
[6]
Phil Bengtson
was named as the interim head coach for the rest of the season, during which he only won one game, and he was not made the permanent coach the next year. In 1978, head coach Fairbanks secretly made a deal to leave the team to coach the
University of Colorado Buffaloes
while he was still coaching the Patriots. Team owner
Billy Sullivan
suspended Fairbanks for the final game of the regular season, stating "You cannot serve two masters," and
Ron Erhardt
and
Hank Bullough
took co-head coaching responsibilities for that game.
[7]
Fairbanks was reinstated when the team qualified for the playoffs, and he lost the first playoff game, his last for the Patriots. Since Dick MacPherson, the Patriots have had only 4 coaches in 32 seasons.
Coaches
[
edit
]
- Note: Statistics are accurate through the end of the
2023 NFL season
.
#
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Image
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Name
|
Term
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Regular season
|
Playoffs
|
Awards
|
Reference
|
GC
|
W
|
L
|
T
|
Win%
|
GC
|
W
|
L
|
Boston Patriots
|
1
|
|
Lou Saban
|
1960
?
1961
|
19
|
7
|
12
|
0
|
.368
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
|
[8]
|
2
|
|
Mike Holovak
|
1961
?
1968
|
107
|
52
|
46
|
9
|
.528
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
UPI AFL Coach of the Year
(1966)
[9]
|
[10]
|
3
|
|
Clive Rush
*
|
1969
?
1970
|
21
|
5
|
16
|
0
|
.238
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
|
[11]
|
4
|
|
John Mazur
*
|
1970
|
7
|
1
|
6
|
0
|
.143
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
|
[6]
|
New England Patriots
|
?
|
|
John Mazur
*
|
1971
?
1972
|
23
|
8
|
15
|
0
|
.348
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
|
[6]
|
5
|
|
Phil Bengtson
|
1972
[12]
|
5
|
1
|
4
|
0
|
.200
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
|
[13]
|
6
|
|
Chuck Fairbanks
*
|
1973
?
1978
[14]
|
85
|
46
|
39
|
0
|
.541
|
2
|
0
|
2
|
UPI NFL Coach of the Year
(1976)
[15]
Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year
(1976)
|
[16]
|
7
|
|
Ron Erhardt
|
1979
?
1981
[17]
|
49
|
21
|
28
|
0
|
.428
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
|
[18]
|
8
|
|
Ron Meyer
|
1982
?
1984
|
33
|
18
|
15
|
0
|
.545
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
|
[19]
|
9
|
|
Raymond Berry
*‡
|
1984
?
1989
*
|
87
|
48
|
39
|
0
|
.551
|
5
|
3
|
2
|
UPI NFL Coach of the Year
(1985)
AFC Championship
(1985)
|
[20]
[21]
|
10
|
|
Rod Rust
*
|
1990
|
16
|
1
|
15
|
0
|
.062
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
|
[22]
|
11
|
|
Dick MacPherson
*
|
1991
?
1992
|
32
|
8
|
24
|
0
|
.250
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
|
[23]
|
12
|
|
Bill Parcells
†
|
1993
?
1996
|
64
|
32
|
32
|
0
|
.500
|
4
|
2
|
2
|
AP NFL Coach of the Year
(1994)
Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year
(1994)
Maxwell Football Club NFL Coach of the Year
(1994)
UPI NFL Coach of the Year
(1994)
AFC Championship
(1996)
|
[24]
[25]
|
13
|
|
Pete Carroll
|
1997
?
1999
|
48
|
27
|
21
|
0
|
.562
|
3
|
1
|
2
|
|
[26]
|
14
|
|
Bill Belichick
|
2000
?
2023
|
387
|
266
|
121
|
0
|
.687
|
41
|
30
|
12
|
AP NFL Coach of the Year
(2003, 2007, 2010)
Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year
(2003)
Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year
(2003)
Maxwell Football Club NFL Coach of the Year
(2007)
PFWA
Executive of the Year (2021)
6
Super Bowl Championships
(2001, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016, 2018)
9
AFC Championships
(2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018)
|
[27]
[28]
|
15
|
|
Jerod Mayo
|
2024
?present
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
.000
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
|
[29]
|
Notes and references
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]
- ^
"Boston Patriots"
. Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Archived
from the original on June 4, 2008
. Retrieved
May 13,
2008
.
- ^
"Buffalo Bills"
. Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Archived
from the original on June 4, 2008
. Retrieved
May 13,
2008
.
- ^
"Patriots hire ex-LB Mayo as Belichick successor"
.
ESPN.com
. January 12, 2024.
Archived
from the original on January 12, 2024
. Retrieved
January 12,
2024
.
- ^
"Raymond Berry profile"
. Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Archived
from the original on May 6, 2008
. Retrieved
April 24,
2008
.
- ^
"Bill Parcells | Pro Football Hall of Fame"
.
pfhof
.
Archived
from the original on January 11, 2024
. Retrieved
January 12,
2024
.
- ^
a
b
c
Grossfeld, Stan (December 1, 2005).
"For Mazur, the scars remain"
.
The Boston Globe
.
Archived
from the original on October 24, 2012
. Retrieved
May 14,
2008
.
- ^
Borges, Ron.
"Butt of jokes to last laugh"
.
The Boston Globe
.
Archived
from the original on July 24, 2004
. Retrieved
April 26,
2008
.
- ^
"Lou Saban"
. databaseSports.com. Archived from
the original
on September 30, 2007
. Retrieved
April 23,
2008
.
- ^
Gruver, Ed (1997).
The American Football League: A Year-by-year History, 1960?1969
.
Jefferson
,
North Carolina
:
McFarland & Company
. p. 276.
ISBN
0-7864-0399-3
.
- ^
"Mike Holovak"
. databaseSports.com. Archived from
the original
on November 22, 2011
. Retrieved
April 23,
2008
.
- ^
"Clive Rush"
. databaseSports.com. Archived from
the original
on February 10, 2007
. Retrieved
April 23,
2008
.
- ^
Phil Bengtson was the interim head coach for five games during the 1972 season.
- ^
Phil Bengtson.
"New England Patriots (1960?present)"
. sports e-cyclopedia.
Archived
from the original on April 17, 2007
. Retrieved
May 14,
2008
.
- ^
Chuck Fairbanks was suspended for the last game of the 1978 regular season. He was reinstated for the playoffs, and lost in the first round.
- ^
"Chuck Fairbanks Head Coach"
. New England Patriots. Archived from
the original
on May 19, 2011
. Retrieved
April 24,
2008
.
- ^
"Chuck Fairbanks"
. databaseSports.com. Archived from
the original
on May 30, 2006
. Retrieved
April 23,
2008
.
- ^
Ron Erhardt's record includes one game where he shared head coaching duties with Hank Bullough during Chuck Fairbanks 1978 suspension. His first official year as head coach of the Patriots was 1979.
- ^
"Ron Erhardt"
. databaseSports.com. Archived from
the original
on May 26, 2006
. Retrieved
April 23,
2008
.
- ^
"Ron Meyer"
. databaseSports.com. Archived from
the original
on February 8, 2007
. Retrieved
April 23,
2008
.
- ^
"Raymond Berry"
. databaseSports.com. Archived from
the original
on September 29, 2007
. Retrieved
April 23,
2008
.
- ^
"Raymond Berry"
.
Pro-Football-Reference
. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from
the original
on December 30, 2008
. Retrieved
December 31,
2008
.
- ^
"Rod Rust"
. databaseSports.com. Archived from
the original
on November 21, 2011
. Retrieved
April 23,
2008
.
- ^
"Dick MacPherson"
. databaseSports.com. Archived from
the original
on November 21, 2011
. Retrieved
April 23,
2008
.
- ^
"Bill Parcells"
. databaseSports.com. Archived from
the original
on December 24, 2007
. Retrieved
April 23,
2008
.
- ^
"Bill Parcells"
.
Pro-Football-Reference
. Sports Reference LLC.
Archived
from the original on June 4, 2011
. Retrieved
December 31,
2008
.
- ^
"Pete Carroll"
. databaseSports.com. Archived from
the original
on February 9, 2007
. Retrieved
April 23,
2008
.
- ^
"Bill Belichick"
. databaseSports.com. Archived from
the original
on December 25, 2007
. Retrieved
April 23,
2008
.
- ^
"Bill Belichick Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks"
.
Pro Football Reference
. Sports Reference LLC.
Archived
from the original on February 10, 2010
. Retrieved
January 8,
2024
.
- ^
"Patriots hire ex-LB Mayo as Belichick successor"
.
ESPN.com
. January 12, 2024.
Archived
from the original on January 13, 2024
. Retrieved
January 13,
2024
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Formerly the
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