Yeah, I'm not sure what people are expecting. He has a better win percentage over his career than Vrabel who many really wanted and nearly the same career win percentage as Payton, both with one Super Bowl win. And almost all of us would take Payton back if he would come back.
I would like a younger and more innovative coach, but if we are really going to stop "looking beyond the record" then you hire a guy with a .608 career winning percentage. He has his warts, but I don't there is a coach out there that is guaranteed to be better than him and many will be much worse than him. It's somewhat of a safe hire, but when safety is a .608 win percentage it's hard to argue with.
It's not a particularly exciting hire, but he might just be the kind of boring that we need right now. He has a really high floor as a HC.