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Over the weekend, we took a look at how some of the most successful coaches in the league fared early in their respective tenures. How have first year New York Jets coaches done? We provide a look below.
| Coach | First Season | Wins Year Before | Wins in First Season | Change in Wins |
| Baugh | 1960 | N/A | 7 | 7 |
| Turner | 1962 | 7 | 5 | -2 |
| Ewbank | 1963 | 5 | 5.5 | 0.5 |
| Winner | 1974 | 4 | 7 | 3 |
| Holtz | 1976 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Michaels | 1977 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Walton | 1983 | 6 | 7 | 1 |
| Coslet | 1990 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| Carroll | 1994 | 8 | 6 | -2 |
| Kotite | 1995 | 6 | 3 | -3 |
| Parcells | 1997 | 1 | 9 | 8 |
| Groh | 2000 | 8 | 9 | 1 |
| Edwards | 2001 | 9 | 10 | 1 |
| Mangini | 2006 | 4 | 10 | 6 |
| Ryan | 2009 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
The Jets had a tie in Weeb Ewbank's first season so I counted it as half a win.
A note should also be made for Joe Walton in 1983. While the Jets did win one more game that season than the year before, 1982 was a strike season. There were only nine games played. The 1982 Jets were 6-3. The 1983 Jets were 7-9.
Over the weekend, we discussed how Bowles should show some early signs of success and how the team should be clearly on the upswing in year two. Recent Jets history shows how fleeting first year success can be. Three straight Jets head coaches, Herman Edwards, Eric Mangini, and Rex Ryan, got their teams to the Playoffs as rookie coaches but left the team with losing records.