List of New York Jets head coaches

There have been 21 head coaches in the history of the New York Jets football franchise. The team began as the New York Titans in the American Football League in 1960, but was renamed the New York Jets three years later.^[1] The Jets remained in the American Football League until the merger with the National Football League prior to the 1970 season. The current head coach of the Jets is Jeff Ulbrich, who was named interim head coach following the firing of Robert Saleh, since October 8, 2024.

Sammy Baugh became the first head coach of the New York Titans in 1960, serving for two seasons before team owner Harry Wismer replaced him with Clyde "Bulldog" Turner.^[2] In terms of tenure, Weeb Ewbank has coached more games (158) and more complete seasons (11) than any other head coach in franchise history. He led the Jets to the AFL championship in 1968 and the AFL-NFL championship in Super Bowl III. Walt Michaels led the team to the AFC championship game in 1982; he was also honored as the Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year and UPI AFC Coach of the Year in 1978. Coaches Baugh, Turner and Ewbank are all members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame; Baugh and Turner were inducted as players, while Ewbank was inducted as a coach/administrator.

Three times in Jets history, the team has had an "interim" head coach. In 1975, Charley Winner was fired as head coach after leading the Jets to a 2–7 record.^[3] The team offensive coordinator Ken Shipp was named the interim coach for the remainder of the season, during which he won only one of five games. Shipp was succeeded by Lou Holtz for the 1976 season.^[4] Holtz resigned as Jets head coach with one game left in the 1976 season; Mike Holovak was named interim coach for the season finale against the Cincinnati Bengals.^[4] In 2024, Robert Saleh was fired five games into the season, upon which defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich took over as interim head coach.^[5]

Bill Belichick was twice named head coach of the Jets but never coached a single game or practice in that capacity. In 1997, he was named head coach for six days before the deal to allow Bill Parcells to leave the New England Patriots for the Jets was brokered, and Belichick became defensive coordinator;^[6] then, when Parcells stepped down after the 1999 season Belichick was named to replace him, but resigned the next day.^[7]

Herman Edwards is the only Jets head coach to lead the team to the playoffs more than twice; Rex Ryan is the only one with more than two postseason wins. Todd Bowles and Robert Saleh are the only ones to coach the Jets for more than two seasons without making the playoffs.

Key

#	Number of coaches[N 1]
GC	Games coached
W	Wins
L	Losses
T	Ties
Win%	Winning percentage
00†	Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach
00‡	Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player
00*	Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Jets

Coaches

#	Image	Name	Term	Regular season					Playoffs			Awards	Reference
				GC	W	L	T	Win%[a]	GC	W	L
New York Titans
1		Sammy Baugh‡	1960–1961	28	14	14	0	.500	—	—	—		[8]
2		Bulldog Turner‡	1962*	14	5	9	0	.357	—	—	—		[9]
New York Jets
3		Weeb Ewbank†	1963–1973	154	71	77	6	.481	3	2	1		[10]
4		Charley Winner	1974–1975	23	9	14	0	.391	—	—	—		[11]
5		Ken Shipp*	1975*[b]	5	1	4	0	.200	—	—	—		[12]
6		Lou Holtz*	1976*[c]	13	3	10	0	.231	—	—	—		[13]
7		Mike Holovak	1976[d]	1	0	1	0	.000	—	—	—		[14]
8		Walt Michaels*	1977–1982*	87	39	47	1	.454	4	2	2	Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year (1978)[15] UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1978)	[16]
9		Joe Walton*	1983–1989*	111	53	57	1	.482	3	1	2		[17]
10		Bruce Coslet	1990–1993	64	26	38	0	.406	1	0	1		[18]
11		Pete Carroll	1994	16	6	10	0	.375	—	—	—		[19]
12		Rich Kotite	1995–1996	32	4	28	0	.125	—	—	—		[20]
13		Bill Parcells†	1997–1999	48	29	19	0	.604	2	1	1		[21]
14		Al Groh*	2000*	16	9	7	0	.563	—	—	—		[22]
15		Herman Edwards	2001–2005	80	39	41	0	.488	5	2	3		[23]
16		Eric Mangini	2006–2008	48	23	25	0	.479	1	0	1		[24]
17		Rex Ryan	2009–2014	96	46	50	0	.479	6	4	2		[25]
18		Todd Bowles	2015–2018	64	24	40	0	.375	—	—	—		[26]
19		Adam Gase	2019–2020	32	9	23	0	.281	—	—	—		[27]
20		Robert Saleh*	2021–2024[e]	56	20	36	0	.357	—	—	—		[28]
21		Jeff Ulbrich*	2024–present[f]	7	1	6	0	.143	—	—	—		[29]

Footnotes

1. A running total of the number of Jets head coaches. Thus, any head coach who has two or more terms is only counted once.

• ^a The Win–loss percentage is calculated using the formula: ${\displaystyle {\frac {Wins+{\frac {1}{2}}Ties}{Games}}}$
• ^b Ken Shipp was the interim head coach for five games in the 1975 season.^[30]
• ^c Holtz resigned as Jets head coach 13 games into the season; he was replaced by Mike Holovak for the last game of the season.^[4]
• ^d Holovak coached the last game of the 1976 season, after Lou Holtz had resigned as Jets head coach.^[4]
• ^e Saleh was fired 5 games into the 2024 season, replaced by interim coach Jeff Ulbrich.^[5]
• ^f Ulbrich is coaching the final 12 games of the 2024 season, after Robert Saleh was fired.^[5]

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