A new spin on Saban and Belichick

[tmny99]

There are a lot of fans that got their expectations raised early on the season when we beat the Broncos and Panthers. Those expectations and our team's recent blunders have had people very upset at Saban. Then there are those who ask for patience and even compare this season to Belichick's first season in New England. Personally, I think it will take some time for us to get back to dominance, but that's not the point of this thread. This morning I was thinking all these comparisons between Saban first year and Belichick first year in NE are inaccurate because it is a comparison of a rookie head coach to someone who was in his second coaching job. So I thought I would present some info on Belichick's years in Cleveland since that was his first head coach position, therefore, the comparison would be a little more to the point.

In 1991 (his first year), Belichick led the Browns to a 6-10 record. Then the team had back to back years of 7-9 in 92 and 93 before finally going 11-5 in 1994. So as you see, it wasn't until his fourth season in Cleveland that Belichick led the Browns to a winning season. I haven't seen these numbers posted, so I thought it would be good for everyone to know. Based on this information, do you view change on how soon Saban needs to produce results? Any thoughts?

 

[DeDolfan]

I think that alot of folks are now upset simply because they had very high unrealistic expectations for this season anyway. Ppl soon forgot a very big lesson we learned with JJ. Everyone had SBs twinkling in their eyes when he came because of his past history. Same here and Saban never won a SB.........yet!!

 

[FinsAreLife]

i agree, fans are upset because we had our sights on playoffs, realistically i thoght we had a 7-9 team, im a little upset that were probably not even going to reach that, we under achieved for some time, we are at best 8-8 and at worst 6-10, if we do not finnish somewhere in that range i will become a little more upset, but then again it is only sabans first year so i cut him some slack....

 

[dolphan117]

I agree with DeDolfan about the unrealistic expectations. Thanks for posting that tmy, the sad reality is that building a franchise just isnt as quick as we all want it to be as fans. The good news is that Saban is as intense kind of guy and will work his *** off to get us there.

 

[Shouright]

I just haven't seen a good explanation for why we looked a lot better early in the season than we do now.