NFL Head Coaches Between 2000-09 Quiz

Answer: Oregon State

Erickson was the 49ers' coach for two seasons, winning a total of 9 games and losing 23. He was Idaho's coach in 2006, leading the Vandals to a 4-8 record in his lone season as coach. He coached Arizona State between 2007 and 2011, compiling a record of 31-31 as the Sun Devils' head coach. Between 1995 and 1998 he was the coach of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and amassed a record of 31-33 before being fired.

Answer: 5

Mornhinweg went 2-14 in 2001 and 3-13 in 2002. His winning percentage of .156 was the worst for a non-interim coach in Detroit Lions history. After being the head man in Detroit he spent the next ten seasons on Andy Reid's staff with the Philadelphia Eagles before spending the 2013-14 season as Offensive Coordinator with the New York Jets.

Answer: False

Todd Haley was the Chiefs' coach for this season, serving as Head Coach for three seasons starting in 2009. He compiled a record of 19-26 with the Chiefs. He had one winning season with the team, going 10-6 in the regular season for the 2010-11 season before losing to the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Wild-Card Game.

Herm Edwards was the Chiefs coach between 2006 and 2008 after spending five seasons as Head Coach for the New York Jets.

Answer: Romeo Crennel

While all four men were at one time the Head Coach of the Browns, Crennel was the one coaching them in 2006. He was their coach from 2005 to 2008 and compiled a record of 24-40 for a winning percentage of .375. During the 2011-12 season he became the interim coach for the Kansas City Chiefs, winning two of the three games he coached. He was named Head Coach of the Chiefs and went 2-14 in his only full season at the helm of the Chiefs.

Palmer coached the Browns for two seasons between 1999-2000, winning a total of five of the 32 games he coached. Butch Davis was Palmer's successor, serving as Head Coach from 2001-04 and going 24-34. Eric Mangini took the reins of the Browns in 2009 after spending three seasons coaching the New York Jets. He went 10-22 during his two seasons with the Browns.

Answer: Offensive coordinator of the San Francisco 49ers

Turner became the offensive coordinator of the 49ers after spending two seasons as the Head Coach of the Oakland Raiders. He was the OC for the Dolphins for the 2002 and 2003 seasons before taking the Raiders' head job. He amassed 56 wins and 40 losses as coach of the Chargers before being fired at the end of the 2012 season.

Answer: True

Harbaugh was the Eagles' Special Teams Coordinator from nine seasons between 1998 and 2005 before becoming their defensive backs coach. As of the end of the 2014-15 season, Harbaugh has compiled a record of 72-40 as the Ravens' Head Coach. He was their coach when they won Super Bowl XLVII.

Answer: Dom Capers

Wannstedt spent four full seasons as the Head Coach of the Dolphins between 2000 and 2003 before being fired after nine games during the 2004-05 season. Bates was the interim coach for the remainder of that season, going 3-4 in his seven games at the reins. Gailey, who has been a Head Coach twice in his career (Dallas Cowboys, from 1998 to 1999; and Buffalo Bills, from 2010 to 2012), did not serve as the Head Coach for the Dolphins at any point between 2000 and 2009. Gailey was the Dolphins' Offensive Coordinator for two seasons in the early 2000s.

Capers was an assistant coach with the Dolphins for the 2007 and 2008 seasons before becoming the Defensive Coordinator for the Green Bay Packers.

Answer: Jon Gruden

Gruden played quarterback for one season for Muskingum College in New Concord, OH in 1981 before transferring to the University of Dayton. He was the Flyers' backup quarterback,playing for coach Mike Kelly but never seeing much playing time during his three seasons with the school. Gruden went on to serve as Head Coach of the Oakland Raiders from 1998-2001 and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2002-08. He won Super Bowl XXXVII as the Buccaneers' coach.

Tice was a tight end in the NFL, playing for the Seattle Seahawks, Washington Redskins, and Minnesota Vikings between 1981 and 1995 after going undrafted in the 1981 NFL Draft. He spent five seasons as the Vikings' Head Coach between 2001-05 where he compiled a record of 32-33. This does not include his 1-1 record in the playoffs.

Dungy went undrafted in 1977 after playing quarterback at the University of Minnesota. He played safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers and San Francisco 49ers in a three-year career. He signed with the New York Giants in the 1980 offseason but did not make the team. Dungy coached the Tampa Bay Buccaneers between 1996-2001 and the Indianapolis Colts between 2002-2008 before retiring after the end of the 2008 season. He went 54-42 with the Bucs and 85-27 with the Colts for a total regular season record of 139-69. He also has a career postseason record of 9-10, including a win with the Colts in Super Bowl XLI.

LeBeau was selected in the fifth round of the 1959 draft by the Cleveland Browns but was cut in training camp. Later that same year he signed with the Detroit Lions where he would play for 14 years as a cornerback and free safety. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010. He served as the Head Coach of the Cincinnati Bengals between 2000 and 2002, posting a record of 12-33 for a winning percentage of .267.

Answer: Dave McGinnis

Tobin was the Cardinals' Head Coach between 1996 and 2000 and compiled a record of 28-43 before being dismissed. McGinnis coached the Cardinals to a 17-40 record during his three-and-a-half seasons as the head man after taking over for Tobin midway through the 2000-01 season. Green was hired to replace McGinnis in 2004 and won 16 games and lost 32 between 2004 and 2006. Green's most memorable moment of being the Cardinals' coach was, arguably, his tirade after his team lost to the Chicago Bears on October 16, 2006 where he famously uttered the line, "The Bears are what we thought they were. They're what we thought they were."

Reeves was a Head Coach during this time frame, but with the Atlanta Falcons, not the Cardinals.

Answer: None

He spent the 2002-03 season as the defensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers, not their linebackers coach, before being given the top job by the Jaguars. He complied a record of 68-71 in the regular season with the Jaguars and 1-2 in the postseason. He was hired after the 2014-15 season as Head Coach of the Oakland Raiders.

He was the Saints' linebackers coach in 1998 and served in the same capacity with the Ravens between 1999 and 2001 before being offered the DC position with the Panthers.