Staxxxx;4550536 said:
^^^^THIS
I think the biggest argument against him is that another team wouldn't hire him. I think that's a bunch of BS. Guys with 25 years of Front office experience don't grow on trees. Would he have been hired by another team 25 years ago? No. Would a team hire him now? Heck Yes. People learn from their successes and failures and he has had a front row seat in a classroom that has witnessed the building of 3 Superbowl teams as well as the building of 3 straight 5 and 11 Teams. He saw fresh faced kids like Aikmen, Irvin, and Smith develop into hall of famers, while others like Quincy Carter let their 2 cent heads lead themselves to oblivion. How is this not as valuable as spending 10 years in your station wagon driving from the Comfort Inn in Iowa City to the Super 8 in Madison to the Best Western in Ann Arbor and back to Ames Iowa.
Let me play devil's advocate and ask the $64,000 question - if Jerry and SJ have all this experience and knowledge and have "seen it all" then how do we go from:
2007 - we have a core of young players with a young franchise QB, we go 13-3, have a bunch of Pro Bowlers AND have -not one- but 2 first round picks for the upcoming draft and from that we go:
2008 - 9-7 - miss the playoffs
2009 - 11-5 - one playoff win
2010 - 6-10 - started the year 1-7, missed playoffs
2011 - 8-8 - missed playoffs
Surely all that experience would have produced a bit better results......
Maybe doin it the old fashion way and spending time in that station wagon driving to that Comfort Inn is the better way to go... just throwing it out there...