NFL general managers generally get more than one swing at a head coach, but it still helps to get the first one right.
Look at the Hall of Famers. Almost every one of them hit a home run in his first at-bat: the Cowboys’ Tex Schramm (Tom Landry), the Vikings’ Jim Finks (Bud Grant), Washington’s Bobby Beathard (Joe Gibbs), the Bills’ Bill Polian (Marv Levy) and the Packers’ Ron Wolf (Mike Holmgren).
