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Again he took over a team that had 3 conference titles games in the 6 years before he got there. They were bad in 1990 because Carson sucked not the team. He actually retained a large portion of the teams feature players. Yes we will never know whet would have happened if he wasn’t fired, but he sill was 1 out of 5 in winning seasons. We also know that everyone involved looked at what he did and basically dismantled it and rebuilt and they were proven right by winning a SB in the same amount of time Bill had with the team.
Which leads me to my overall point they he did nothing impressive in Cleveland. Plenty of coaches took much worse teams to a playoff in quicker time than Bill did there and a chunk maintained it, which he didn’t do. He’s getting lenience and spin because of who he is.
When you said he retained a large number of their former players I was curious. He did retain 10/11 offensive starters and most skill positions remained the same minus Ozzie newsome at TE. OL was misleading as he kept 4/5 starters but only 2 of those were starters in 91. Essentially he’s replaced 60% of the line.
Defense is an entire different story. Of the 11 starters on the 90 defense he retained 5, and only 3 were starters. That’s not only a major overhaul in personnel they were also switching to his style of defense.
Of the total roster he replaced over half between 90 and 91. That’s pretty much an overhaul of the roster. Like a few of us have said, a rebuild. And Even though it took a while to become successful it stinks that he wasn’t able to see it through. Worked out for us though making it to the Super Bowl the following year with BB as DC.