Originally Posted by
YardRat
Well, if you consider Whaley's first three years here a complete dumpster fire and want to believe Polian built a Super Bowl team in two years , I guess that's your prerogative.
At the same point of their careers, Polian didn't accomplish much more. Of course, right now, Polian is a great GM...30 years, three teams, and a Super Bowl ring later. If you want to believe that Marrone leaving and Wrecks failing is all on Whaley, then again, that's your prerogative. Maybe Marrone walked because he didn't get along with Whaley...maybe not. One thing is pretty certain, however, Wrecks wasn't canned because of anything Whaley had done.
Maybe if Russ Branding had butted the **** out three years ago they would have.
Whaley's first three years have resulted in 24 wins...that's the most wins in any three year period for the team this century. He took over the reigns of a team that hadn't finished 8-8 or better in almost 10 years. The first 14 years of the 2000's the team finished .500 or better 3 times. They have done it twice in the last three years...despite having a moron for head coach #1 and a clueless OC, and twin morons for head coach #2 and his defensive specialist.
Is it the playoffs? No. Is it anything to crow about compared to making it to the conference championship after the third year? Not really. Is it better than we've seen since TMCM? Yeah, undoubtedly.