Xee wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 8:19 pm
Agree with @Rakshir and @@BR0D1E86. As infuriating as some of Nagy's decisions were, he technically hasn't had a losing season yet. Let's compare that to the stats of previous coaches in their first two seasons:
Wannstedt - 4-12 & 4-12
Jauron - 6-10 & 5-11
Smith - 5-11 & 11-5
Trestman - 8-8 & 5-11
Fox - 6-10 & 3-13
So this is the first coach in over 20 years that's done a halfway decent job. Granted, the bar is not high but he deserves another season
at least before any decisions are made.
Records are really deceptive when taken out of context of what phase the team was in at the time.
(Also, those are Wanny's last 2 years, not his first 2)
Wanny year 1, they tried to win with old Ditka guys and nearly succeeded. Year 2 they started the turnover in earnest - and went to the playoffs and won a game in the first year of rebuilding.
Jauron's last season was a rebuild - partly forced on him by Angelo, partly his own choice. So when Lovie arrived, they were already 1 year into it. He won 11 games in his 2nd yr, which was the 3rd year of rebuilding.
Poor Trestman never even got a chance to rebuild. He inherited an ancient team with a delusional mandate to keep winning with it.
Fox rebuilt for 3 years, never winning.
Nagy stepped into a rebuild 3 years underway and won in his first year, but the 4th year of rebuilding.
(Jauron's tenure is murkier and harder to define, at least from what I recall without researching, so I'm leaving it out.)
So, in that context, the HCs first broke out in (rebuild yr, their yr)
Wanny 1/2
Lovie 3/2
Trestman -/- (no rebuild, no breakout)
Fox 3+/3+ (didn't happen within 3)
Nagy 4/1
So, with that context, Nagy's breakthrough was pretty long into a team rebuild. There's no way to prove whether he could or couldn't have achieved it sooner, if he'd have gotten the job 1-2 yrs earlier (although I'm skeptical). But I see scant debate to be had that he stepped into the best situation of anyone being compared here.