Mike Holmgren is assembling his staff in Cleveland, and has dug into his Green Bay past to fill some of the holes. Here we take another look at the "Family Tree" that is the Holmgren head coaches.

For the sake of my rankings, I'm not going to evaluate the second generation guys, or the coaches from Holmgren's run in Seattle. That leaves us with the following:

1) Jon Gruden - Only Super Bowl winner on this list. I remember being very surprised when Tampa Bay fired him after last season. Also, if you give him the Snow Bowl/Tuck Rule game, which improves his playoff record to a much better 6-3. Really didn't do much with his team in Tampa which Tony Dungy had essentially built up, but did get them over the hump, something for whatever reason, Tony never did.

2) Andy Reid - When referring to Philadelphia sports icons, except for Allen Iverson of all people, this adage generally applies, "Underrated in Philadelphia, Overrated around the rest of the country." Has there been a more tumultuous relationship between a successful quarterback/coach combination than Donovan McNabb/Andy Reid and the Philadelphia fans? Redi has never won the Super Bowl, and probably should get penalized for making so many NFC championship games, yet only one Super Bowl appearance, a loss.

3) Steve Mariucci - Stepped in with 2 HOFers on offense, and still did very well. No real breakthrough playoff appearances that could potentially make him better.  Gets major bonus points for making the post Barry Sanders Lions mediocre.

4) Mike Sherman - The man that Packers fans like to hate, and with good reason. His team was stacked, could never get a reliable defense. Then magically became GM when Ron Wolff retired. Sherman wasn't that bad of a drafter, but was horrible at free agency and he hit rock bottom when he traded up in the Third round for a PUNTER, who never even played.

5) Ray Rhodes - Started out great for the Eagles, but fell out of favor. Then for some reason Green Bay hired him and guess what, average season, which eventually got him fired.

6) Dick Jauron - Had one good incredibly lucky season with the Bears, and besides that nothing but mediocre.

7) Marty Mornhinweg - 5-27? I I know it's the Lions, but Mariucci was able to at least make the Lions mediocre.

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