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[QUOTE="orangenirvana, post: 1195265, member: 156"]
These days a quality head coach can "get the intangibles going" from the day he's hired in January through the following Labor Day weekend. Good head coaches don't need years to build an NFL team into a winner.

Look at the 49ers and Chiefs. 49ers were a perpetual 6-10/7-9 team throughout the 2000's. Harbaugh comes in and the Niners [I]immediately[/I] become contenders. The Chiefs were irrelevant and posted the worst record in the NFL in 2012. Andy Reid walks in and they immediately become a perennial playoff team. It's not a coincidence. Head coaches are extremely valuable in the NFL and quality HC's are recognizable in Year #1...the middle of Year 2 at the latest.

The Bills had a lot of pieces in place when Marrone came in so he has very few excuses. But what's really killed him are his questionable personnel decisions and being such a train wreck as a game manager. One thing (perhaps the only thing) that has saved him to this point is his landing of Pettine and Schwartz in consecutive seasons to be his DC. If not for the defense - hoo boy.
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