How long should a successful rebuild take?
Depends who is orchestrating it…
This would be the key component of any rebuild. Who’s the person actually in charge of the rebuild.
We have seen it throughout the NFL, sometimes ownership (Jerry Jones/Shahid Khan/Woody Johnson) get overly involved in the composition of the coaching staff or the team.
It really just depends on what direction Mrs Gayle wants the organization to go or to be. Would she like us to rebuild around what limited talent we have on offense/defense, through the development of draft picks? If so do we want to bring in an offensive or defensive head coach? Do we give that coach the capability to bring in and develop players for his system or want him to cater to the players on the roster and incorporate a system to fit the current roster, and use FA and the draft to find players that excel in that system.
It can be done within 2-3 years in my opinion which seems to be the consensus on the board. I think a lot depends on the culture that is established. Unfortunately I don’t believe that we have a “winning” culture in the building anymore. So that has to be established again by whoever we hire.
I know that I might be the outlier here and I’ll get plenty of 👎 for saying this but in my opinion I still think Mickey, Dennis Lauscha, and Greg Bensel need to go. Maybe give Khai Harley a run at the GM or even offer Drew Brees (sorta like a John Lynch). I truly believe that if Sean Payton felt like he could have built a championship winning team with our current leadership then he would have came back here after his stint at FOX instead of requesting a trade.
Of the 31 other teams I’m not sure how many are currently looking for or will be looking for a GM but if Mrs Gayle parted ways with ML, tell me exactly how many of those teams would actually hire ML?