Right and many here felt Winston was a good qb, Bowles did it with Baker, he was a cast off. Regardless, you make my point, both coaches had the same record but one is ranked way above the other. The rankings are not based in logic.
Here is the thing.....
-Winston getting hurt kept us from the playoffs, competition with a 13 win team for the NFC South and Payton getting Coach of the Year
-Bowles wins a division title at the weakest that it has been in a recent memory with a team that had it's 2nd worst offensive season since *checks notes*, the 2022 season.
To say that Payton hasn't done anything since Drew makes one question if people really paid attention to what was going on during the 2021 season and to compare what Payton did with what he had in 2021 to what Bowles did last season is nuts..lol
Payton is ranked ahead of Bowles because he has been far more successful. But he’s ranked at 16, which takes into account his last two seasons. When Brees was playing, I think an overwhelming majority of people who have agreed that Payton was a top 5 coach.
I’m not defending the list or the thinking that went into. It’s just somebody’s opinion.