Quote:Continuity isn't worth a damn if you don't have the right people in place. Stalling just means giving people who are bad at their job more time to sink the ship.

 

Would you have wanted Gene Smith around for 3 more years, do you think he would have fared any better?

 

Jack Del Rio holds the record for being the longest tenured head coach (9 years) to have a losing record. You tell me, how did that patience work out?

 

Three years was enough of Gene Smith.  It wasn't getting any better.  So, why does it seem so unreasonable considering the way they blew this roster up and how they've rebuilt it to give them the time they say they need in order to turn things around.  Caldwell, Bradley, and Khan have all been on the same page in saying that year 3 is the year where the team needs to make that turn.  We've played exactly one game of year 3. 

 

Del Rio managed to get a contract extension coming off a playoff win.  That extension never should have happened.  Neither should the deal that was signed by Garrard.  Nobody is left from the group that made those decisions including the owner, so it's okay to move on.  I was very much in the fire Del Rio camp from the point where it became clear he wasn't going to be able to sustain any level of success here.  That was more than a year before he was fired.

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