‘Andy Reid Bowl’ shines bright light on an NFL coaching legend

All Time Postseason Wins

Here is a list of the NFL’s all-time leaders for postseason wins for head coaches. I’ve included their years making the playoffs out of their total years of coaching, postseason wins, and postseason winning percentage. Again, the number of teams that make the playoffs has changed over the years so more modern coaches have had a better chance to stack up playoff appearances and total postseason games.

1. Bill Belichick – 19/28 seasons in playoffs, 31 postseason wins, .705 winning %

2. Andy Reid – 18/24 seasons in playoffs, 21 postseason wins, .568 winning %

3. Tom Landry – 18/29 seasons in playoffs, 20 postseason wins, .556 winning %

4. Don Shula – 19/33 seasons in playoffs, 19 postseason wins, .528 winning %

5. Joe Gibbs – 10/16 seasons in playoffs, 17 postseason wins, .708 winning %

6. Chuck Noll – 12/23 seasons in playoffs, 16 postseason wins, .667 winning %

7. Mike Holmgren – 12/17 seasons in playoffs, 13 postseason wins, .542 winning %

T-8. Tom Coughlin – 9/20 seasons in playoffs, 12 postseason wins, .632 winning %

T-8. Bill Cowher – 10/15 seasons in playoffs, 12 postseason wins, .571 winning %

*Dan Reeves, Bill Parcells, Pete Carroll, Mike McCarthy, John Harbaugh, and Marv Levy are all tied with 11 postseason wins.

Once again we have some of the best coaches of all time represented on this list. These are the coaches that made the playoffs routinely and still managed to have a winning record in the playoffs.

Two things stand out when looking at Andy Reid here. First is simply the fact that he is second all-time in playoff wins. While his postseason winning percentage isn’t quite that of guys like Bill Belichick, Joe Gibbs, and Chuck Noll it is still very good. The other thing that stands out to me is that Andy Reid has the highest percentage of making the playoffs out of all of these legends. Making the playoffs in 18 of your 24 seasons as a head coach is simply astounding.

This is also probably a good time to remind everyone of Reid’s amazing 10 conference title game appearances. That means in 10 of his 18 postseason appearances he made it to the conference title game. That’s over 50%. The fact that he made it five times with both the Chiefs and Eagles is also impressive.

This isn’t a guy that just lucked into a good situation. In fact, Reid’s sustained excellence is unparalleled. His five NFC Championship appearances included a run of four straight seasons making it in Philadelphia and now he is in a stretch of five straight seasons making it to the AFC Championship Game in Kansas City. No other head coach in NFL history, including Bill Belichick, has been able to maintain that kind of consistency year after year and Reid has done it with two different teams.

When you combine Reid being 5th all-time in NFL history in wins, being 2nd in postseason wins, having the highest percentage of making the playoffs out of the top ten coaches in postseason wins, and his unmatched consistency in making the conference championship, you can make a strong argument that Andy Reid is the most consistent winner in NFL coaching history. The only thing he doesn’t have is multiple Super Bowl wins.

So let’s take a look at the most Super Bowl wins by head coaches.