Tag: NFL Head Coach Rankings

Where Chargers’ Jim Harbaugh ranks among head coaches in 2024

Touchdown Wire released their rankings of all 32 head coaches heading into the 2024 season. 

Touchdown Wire’s Jarrett Bailey released his rankings of all 32 head coaches heading into the 2024 season.

Jim Harbaugh checked in at No. 14 overall.

Harbaugh’s probably a little too low for most people, but he hasn’t coached in the NFL since 2014 and I’m still rolling my eyes at the Greg Roman hire at offensive coordinator. Will the Chargers be a complete disaster like they were with Brandon Staley? I don’t think so, but I don’t expect them to be a powerhouse all of a sudden, either.

Harbaugh has been a winner everywhere he’s coached, including at the NFL level when he took the 49ers to the Super Bowl in 2012.

Harbaugh fell short in the big game, so he returned to the league to get another shot to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.

Harbaugh is bringing his old-school mindset of playing fast, physical and gritty on both sides of the ball. It has worked at all of his coaching stops, so why wouldn’t it work in Los Angeles?

With those principles paired with a talented quarterback in Justin Herbert and top-end talent on the roster, the hope is that he can achieve his goal of a Super Bowl and bring the first to the franchise.

Where Chargers’ Brandon Staley ranks among head coaches in 2023

The 33rd Team released their rankings of all 32 head coaches heading into the 2023 season. 

The 33rd Team released their rankings of all 32 head coaches heading into the 2023 season.

Brandon Staley checked in at No. 20 overall.

I’m not quite sure what to make of Staley at this point. He has two winning seasons, but it feels like the Los Angeles Chargers lose a bunch of close games they shouldn’t. Case in point, their Wild Card playoff debacle in Jacksonville.

Staley is entering his third year as the Chargers’ head coach with a 19-15 record with one trip to the playoffs under his belt, which came last season, resulting in a collapse to the Jaguars after being up 27-0.

There had been some speculations that after the implosion against Jacksonville, Staley would be fired.

Despite blowing the third-largest lead in NFL postseason history, Staley improved from 9-8 in his first season to 10-7 and took Los Angeles to the playoffs for the first time since 2018, all while dealing with a handful of injuries to key players.

Staley made coaching staff changes this offseason, adding a new offensive coordinator in Kellen Moore and a quarterbacks coach in Doug Nussmeier. He is banking on those additions to elevate the skills of quarterback Justin Herbert and for the team to stay healthy.

Time will tell if the Chargers can make a deeper run. But with all the talent on the roster, if they fail to do so, Staley could be on the hot seat.