This. This is why you cannot just look at Marrones record in Jacksonville and take it at face value.
Marrone took over a team that went 3-13..... one of those wins was at the end with him as interim.....
The following year they went 10-6. The Jags had not won double digits since 2007 and had not won their division since 1999. That year they won two playoff games vs Buffalo and put up 45 points in a win Vs Steelers in the Next round. They then lossed 24-20 to NE and had the lead until The final drive. BLAKE BORTLES WENT 23-36 293yd 1td 0in IN FOXBOROUGH.
The next year they hired Tom Coughlin as president of operations and despite starting the year 3-1 including a win over New England..... the plan was in place to began a tear down Bc trade rumors started flying and they wanted out of the bortles contract. Thus leading them to trading 4 prime pro bowlers from the best 4 man front defense of the decade just to switch to a 3 man front (their following drafts point to this).
How would this translate to being the coach of Tennessee? Idk. But it’s lazy to just look at his record and not actually look at the context of the situation and organization as a whole.
Look at Jim Caldwell for example. He had Manning in Indy, two great years. Manning is injured.... ownership wants to tank and they go 2-14.... Caldwell is painted as a bad coach.
he gets hired again and in 4 years of the lions coach he went 11-5, 7-9, 9-7, and 9-7........ you see what the lions have been since him.
Point being: in the NFL... a head coach can only do so much.... Owner/GM/Front Office and QB have more power and say on outcome than the actual head coach.
We see it happening now In Philadelphia. They fire a Super Bowl winning coach his first down year because Doug never was sold on Wentz but the ownership was. Gonna be interesting to see what direction they go Bc they seem keen on keeping Wentz in green.... for some reason.
