It's all about expectations. And the fan expectations have so far been very different to the team's expectations, as I've pointed out before. From the fan viewpoint, Gus is a horribly underachieving coach. From the team viewpoint, he's come close to what was expected and planned.

This year is interesting, though, because for the first time expectations of the majority of the fanbase and of the team are starting to converge, somewhere just north of 8-8. That doesn't mean Gus will be automatically gone if the team doesn't go 10-6 (or whatever arbitrary number you want to assign). But the same results that would disappoint the fans again are going to disappoint Shad Khan for perhaps the first time. And you don't want to be disappointing Shad Khan as a coach.

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