I also don’t know what the totals are for a new coach coming into a .500 or worse team their first seasons…I feel like it’s not great, barring a badly mismanaged loaded roster. You take two first seasons (6-10, 5-11) and you’re already at 11-21, which pads the argument. Again, context matters.
Although, again, he’s also being penalized for telling Rehbein to go off and scout a QB, and then fighting the owner for said QB the following season vs the $100 million incumbent, and then being penalized again while having success with a player who flawlessly executed their game plan both during the regular season but also the postseason when it mattered most.
Average coaches don’t win six Super Bowls with super star QBs…we’ve certainly seen that. And great coaches rarely win with subpar QBs. They gambled on Mac Jones and lost, But more importantly, Bill gambled on small coaching staffs, didn’t promote from within which saw talented personnel guys/scouts/coaches bail, and got crushed when McDaniels poached his staff after 2021. Add in bad personnel decisions and he set up his own implosion.
It’s unfortunate. But to say what he did on Sundays meant absolutely nothing is not only not true, it devalues everything guys like Bruschi, Law, Harrison, Seymour, Wilfork, Hightower and so many others did here over the years. That’s like calling all those guys JAGS because Brady was here. Not at all the case.
I get people are mad…but calling him a mediocre coach based on the narrative that keeps running on the radio is just so strange to me. I get it - people have their opinions - but I also know how people viewed things here in real time and the fact they’re going back on that now (ie: things like the Cleveland years) is just sort of head scratching.