McCarthy inherited both Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers. He had okay QBs to start.Appreciate the response Chair because your opinions provide context to your opinion of Tomlin as an excellent coach. Given those guys are equivalent to Tomlin, it’s appropriate that you also rate them. Now when you say Tomlin is excellent, we know that you have a tendency to over inflate things. Can you do my next 5 performance reviews? .
As far as the last let if you’re post, what I asked was who has inherited a super bowl roster and a HOf QB in his prime. Payton hasn’t it. And I don’t think McCarthy did either. McCarthy took over 2 struggling franchises while Tomlin took over 0. So Tomlin’s record should Trump his and it doesn’t.
Now, I do credit Tomlin for taking over a super bowl team and winning. Not everyone can manage the egos as a new coach and do that. He did. He should be recognized for it. It’s just not as impressive as taking over a bad team and building it into a winner.
The Packers were 4-12 the year before McCarthy took over. Even with Brett Favre. The prior 5 years, they were 10-6, 10-6, 12-4, 12-4 and 9-7. He did not inherit a struggling franchise. He inherited a team off one bad year where they had a lot of injuries the prior season.
Payton's first year, they signed Brees before the year. So, he was pretty stacked at QB from the start. I did not include it in inherited because it was a signing. But, he started with Brees, which is a very solid advantage.
By the way, both Favre and Brees were better players than Ben was when Tomlin took over (as in, they both were better players at that particular career point than Ben during their first years under the new regime).
As far as your next career review, if you are as good as someone that is 16th All-Time (like Tomlin is with NFL wins) at something (out of a pool of probably like over a thousand guys) where you have always been consistent, won huge games and dealt with a great deal of adversity along the way, I would probably give you a good review. I would guess that you are not top 2% rare in what you do though, so I mean, it is just not a fair comparison in all likelihood.
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