Best QB "Second Acts"

Best head coaching second act? The answer is obvious.

 

George Seifert?

 

Joe Montana nearly led the Chiefs to the Super Bowl (if only that RB had held onto the short pass before the end of the 1st half in the AFC Championship game.)

 

Don Shula. Yeah, he made it to one less SB and won one less title than Darth, but at least his team finished undefeated.

 

Mike Ditka [/bluefont]

 

Tom Coughlin
Bill Belichick

 

Dungy
Gruden

 

Weeb Ewbank says Don Shula is a punk-bitch second actor who couldn't win a title with Unitas like he did and then got beat by him in Super Bowl III.

 

Non-championship division (coaches) Coryell, Knox, Levy, and George Allen.

I rank the top five as Belichick, Coughlin, Shula, Vermeil, Gruden (I still don't think the Bucs win their Super Bowl if they are playing anyone besides the Raiders, and Raiders don't lose to anyone else but the Bucs).

I think second acts for qbs are obviously more unique. Figure if a guy is "the man" something has to go wrong for a team not to want him anymore - hard to regain that aura away from the environment that helped you get it in the first place.

 

Levy is a good one. He was so out of his league in his first gig he was running a Wing T.

Which he was mocked for by Belichick when Bill B. was in Cleveland.

 

He's not alone ...

 

Weeb won two NFL titles with the Colts, then a Super Bowl with the Jets. Hard to top that combination.

The Browns made a living on excellent second-chance QBs in the 1960s, first Frank Ryan, who they got from the Rams, and then Bill Nelson, who they got from the Steelers.