Within the NFL, it is vital for the important thing decision-makers to be on the identical web page. That is very true for a staff’s head coach and basic supervisor. The GM sometimes picks the gamers, who should swimsuit the philosophy and imaginative and prescient of the staff’s head coach.
Forward of the opening of coaching camps in July, Yardbarker NFL writers rank the top coach-GM combos inside every NFC division.
NFC East
1. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES | HC Nick Sirianni, GM Howie Roseman | With a 48-20 document within the common season, Sirianni owns the fifth-highest winning percentage in NFL history amongst coaches with at the least 4 NFL seasons. Roseman owns two Govt of the Yr awards and collectively, they share two of the previous three NFC championships and a Lombardi Trophy from Tremendous Bowl LIX.
2. WASHINGTON COMMANDERS | HC Dan Quinn, GM Adam Peters | Quinn and Peters got here aboard in 2024 and took a 4-13 staff from 2023 all the best way to final season’s NFC Championship Sport. Washington is lucky Chicago selected quarterback Caleb Williams over Offensive Rookie of the Yr Jayden Daniels within the 2024 NFL Draft, however Quinn and Peters deserve credit score for bringing him alongside in what must be the primary of many profitable seasons for Washington.
3. DALLAS COWBOYS | HC Brian Schottenheimer, GM Jerry Jones | Schottenheimer has but to name a play because the staff’s new coach, however proprietor/GM Jerry Jones has a 319-261 regular-season document over the previous 36 years. He and Schottenheimer would possibly rank larger if not for the staff’s 29-year Tremendous Bowl drought and 16-15 playoff document underneath Jones.
4. NEW YORK GIANTS | HC Brian Daboll, GM Joe Schoen | Daboll and Schoen arrived in 2022, the season they helped lead the Giants to their first playoff look since 2016, a feat that earned Daboll Coach of the Yr honors. Since then, the staff is 9-25. This combo might by no means get better from making a multitude of contract negotiations with former Giants working again Saquon Barkley throughout HBO’s “Laborious Knocks.” — Bruce Ewing
NFC West
1. LOS ANGELES RAMS | HC Sean McVay, GM Les Snead | Since Snead employed McVay in 2017, the Rams are a mannequin franchise. That duo has produced seven profitable seasons in eight years (together with six 10-win seasons), two journeys to the Tremendous Bowl and a Tremendous Bowl title.
2. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS| HC Kyle Shanahan, GM John Lynch | Lynch and Shanahan have had a ton of success collectively and made 4 appearances within the NFC Championship Sport and two Tremendous Bowls. However not profitable a title regardless of having supremely gifted groups knocks this combo down a peg. Plus, the debacle of the number of QB Trey Lance with the third general choose within the 2021 NFL Draft and an unpleasant 2025 offseason are massive negatives.
3. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS | HC Mike Macdonald, GM John Schneider | Macdonald is barely getting into his second season as HC of the Seahawks and continues to be a little bit of an unknown. However Schneider has been in Seattle since 2010 and produced two Tremendous Bowl groups (together with a Tremendous Bowl-winning staff) and helped the franchise keep aggressive after navigating by means of Russell Wilson’s departure.
4. ARIZONA CARDINALS | HC Jonathan Gannon, GM Monti Ossenfort | There may be a variety of potential with the Cardinals going into the 2025 season, and competing for a playoff spot — if not the NFC West general — must be the naked minimal expectation. However at this level, all the things with this duo is predicated on potential and never outcomes, which places them on the backside of the division rankings. — Adam Gretz
NFC North
1. DETROIT LIONS | HC Dan Campbell, GM Brad Holmes | Campbell and Holmes have achieved what many males earlier than them deemed inconceivable: They turned the lowly Lions into official Tremendous Bowl contenders. Detroit went from 3-13-1 within the first yr of the Campbell-Holmes period in 2021 to 15-2 and the No. 1 seed within the NFC final season, all because of its passionate head coach and GM.
2. MINNESOTA VIKINGS | HC Kevin O’Connell, GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah | For as a lot success as Campbell and Holmes have loved of their 4 years with the Lions, Minnesota’s duo of O’Connell and Adofo-Mensah isn’t far behind. The Vikings are 34-17 within the common season since O’Connell and Adofo-Mensah took over the franchise, and so they have one of many extra well-rounded rosters within the league in 2025.
3. GREEN BAY PACKERS | HC Matt LaFleur, GM Brian Gutekunst | The LaFleur-Gutekunst connection acquired off to a scorching begin with three 13-win seasons and two NFC Championship Sport appearances of their first three seasons collectively, however the Packers are 28-23 with just one playoff win since. It’s truthful to criticize LaFleur’s hesitance to teach aggressively at occasions and Gutekunst’s draft technique.
4. CHICAGO BEARS | HC Ben Johnson, GM Ryan Poles | As a lot potential as this Chicago duo has, it doesn’t have sufficient expertise to warrant a rating any larger than final on this loaded division. The Bears are 15-36 since Poles took over as GM in 2022, and Johnson is getting into his first season as an NFL head coach. — Jack Dougherty
NFC South
1. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS | HC Todd Bowles, GM Jason Licht | The Bucs are doing one thing proper, and the NFL has taken discover, with the Raiders hiring Bucs assistant GM John Spytek as its GM and fellow assistant GM Mike Greenberg interviewing with the Jaguars and Jets earlier this offseason. Bowles has been a gentle hand following Tom Brady’s 2023 retirement, guiding the Bucs to a few consecutive NFC South titles, making this essentially the most profitable period in franchise historical past.
2. CAROLINA PANTHERS | HC Dave Canales, GM Dan Morgan | Canales has developed a fame as a QB whisperer, coaxing profession revivals out of Geno Smith, Baker Mayfield and, most lately, Carolina’s Bryce Younger, who languished throughout a tepid profession begin. Morgan, like Canales, is getting into his second season with the Panthers, and invested $92.275M in guaranteed salary throughout free company to repair the league’s worst protection; nevertheless, the manufacturing of extensive receivers Tetairoa McMillan and Xavier Legette, the staff’s previous two first-round picks, looms giant in his general evaluation.
3. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS | HC Kellen Moore, GM Mickey Loomis | Moore is an unknown as a first-year head coach, whereas Loomis is getting into his twenty third yr as Saints GM, which has coincided with the franchise’s most profitable years, together with its solely Tremendous Bowl win, three NFC Championship Sport appearances and eight playoff journeys. Nonetheless, Loomis has made questionable choices in latest seasons in a ham-fisted effort to maintain the Saints in competition. As an alternative, they missed the playoffs the previous 4 seasons, the staff’s longest drought underneath Loomis since his first 4 seasons (2002-05).
4. ATLANTA FALCONS | HC Raheem Morris, GM Terry Fontenot | In his second stint as Falcons coach after serving in an interim function in 2020 following Dan Quinn’s firing, Morris went 8-9 final season, his third dropping document in 4 full seasons as an NFL head coach. It’s unclear if the 2021 Tremendous Bowl champion Rams defensive coordinator is the proper man to get the Falcons into the postseason for the primary time for the reason that 2017 season. However it’s more and more clear Fontenot, who has made many ill-fated strikes since being employed in 2021, is working on borrowed time. — Eric Smithling
