Quote:Do you know how bad a 12-38 record is? There have been 170 coaches in NFL history who coached at least 50 games, and Bradley’s winning percentage ranks 169th out of those 170. The only coach with a worse record was Bert Bell, who coached the Philadelphia Eagles from 1936 to 1941. And the only reason Bell wasn’t fired is that Bell was also the Eagles’ owner.

This is true, but Steve Spagnuolo and Rod Marinelli both coached 48 games, and have a worse record than Gus.  In fact as long as Gus wins 2 games this year (assuming he stays the whole season) he will still be ahead of them.  He's also still capable of passing a few guys who lasted even longer--

 

He can pass David Shula (who coached 71 games) with 6 wins.

With 8 wins he can pass Marion Campbell who coached 9 seasons (115 games).  He passes Joe Buegel (who also coached 5 seasons) with that amount too.  As well as Harland Svare (7 seasons) 

 

Of course noteworthy is that Marion Campbell served as head coach three times for two teams.  (Falcons-Eagles-Falcons), and Harland Svare had two stints as head coach too.  So it wasn't like they had one stint for four years with their kind of record.

 

David Shula remains the only other one that's really close (other than Spagnuolo and Marinelli, but they're the other way) that coached more than 4 seasons.  Not great times for the Bengals after him, either.  They still haven't won a playoff game.  They didn't even make the playoffs until almost a decade later.  Yikes!  

 

I'm thinking Khan will want to show patience, and not fire mid-season.  Unless he loses the fanbase, or Gus loses the locker room totally.  

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