Quote:It's tough to support a coach who is averaging 3.4 wins a year, particularly when the "defensive coach," led his defense to 24th place in the NFL in his third year.  If you can't get to even numbers in your third year, the time should be up.

 

Look at veteran John Fox, he was at Denver for 4 years, but got tossed because he didn't take his team to win the Superbowl, after going to 3 AFC Divisional games and a Superbowl appearance.  Look at Andy Reid, he has 3 seasons where he lost more games than he won in 17 years.

 

Look at brand new to head coaching in the NFL Bill O'Brien, he took a 2-14 team and produced 9-7 in his first two seasons, all with shite for QBs.  Looks at Jim Harbaugh, he comes in his first NFL head coaching job and goes to NFC Division Championship, lost in the Superbowl, NFC Division Championship, but he goes 8-8 and he and the team have a "mutual disagreement." Now look at Chip Kelly: 10-6, 10-6, 6-9 and he's fired. 

 

In my opinion "rebuilding a team" is like lighting a fuse and it's going to go off soon: NFL teams need to have high standards, you win or you don't win, and it better be very, very fast.

 

* exceptions always exist

All of those teams were in way different situations.

John Fox got "tossed" from Denver for wanting to move on from Peyton Manning at QB.

Andy Reid was displaced in Philly because he was there forever and sometimes, the freshness is what a team needs. Chip Kelly ruined whatever leftovers Reid had left him.

Harbaugh took a team that was already built. If the previous coach had been given another season or two, I have no doubt the 9ers would have had their solid 2-3 year run anyway.

 

BoB is interesting... yeah, he's had crap for QBs for the most part, but he's had a dominate D.

 

NONE of these teams had a true complete rebuild when these coaches came in, nor did any of them do that when the coach went out.

 

Blame Caldwell all you want for doing something way different than other clubs. But truth is, no coach would have won many games with this team in their first two seasons.

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