Which episode is this ? <| sep |> Not go to work , hang out with family and friends <| sep |> So , you want this team to be the 07 Patriots , is that right ? ? Did I ever say that ? No , but if you think this team is a complete team then we don ' t really have a lot to go on here . No one said the team should apologize for winning so you can keep knocking down them strawmans all day , but its not going to get you anywhere . You know , Caldwell could win the SB here , and he ' d still be hated or underappreciated . He has a lot of shortcomings as an X ' s and O ' s guy , but he ' s a leader of men , and that ' s much more that whatever this franchise has had in the modern era . Just because he ' s better than a literal dumpster fire doesn ' t mean hes actually good . 2014 is still on Caldwell , if he had stepped in and done anything to try and right the offense , or even just not hire the most inept OC he could , that team would have been a powerhouse poised to make a deep playoff run . 2015 was a disaster that was also largely on JC . Righting the ship just as the Playoffs were all but out of reach doesn ' t give him any kind of a pass . The 13 start this year is also largely on Caldwell . This team came out and got manhandled by an absolutely awful Bears team . We let a medicore Packers team do whatever they wanted with us and effectively put the game out of reach before we even got to half time . We havent actually won anything that matters yet , and those losses could easily come back to haunt us . The players respond to Caldwell , I will say that much , but that ' s not a trait that ' s specific to Jim Caldwell . The team also comes out into every game and looks woefully unprepared , or they jump out to an early lead and then completely go silent in the second half . This is something that has consisently happened in his 3 years as a coach . I would go so far as to say that in his 2 and a half years here the team has come out and played a complete game less than a third of a time . If thats not the mark of a medicore coach in this league I don ' t know what is . His coaching staff is at least above average , and he has cut down on stupid mistakes , time management has been a plus this season , I concede , the team has completely stopped shooting itself in the foot , players are evidently more disciplined , and Stafford is in a careerbest season . He has failed in 2 tries to deliver a postseason win , but if you go backwards and rewatch his introductory press conference , he has delivered on everything else he promised . And if he wins that elusive post season game here , he ' d have delivered on absolutely anything he promised . If a single post season win is all you expect out of your team then you set the bar woefully low . Teryl Austin was a good hire , but even he has suffered the inconsistency bug that ' s plagued this team in the Caldwell era . As far as I ' m concered he gets no credit for JBC because if you knew you had a guy like him and you let Joe Lombardi run this team into the ground for a season and a half then that ' s even worse then simply believing Lombardi was the right guy for the job . A lot of the things you mentioned he improved on were improved on because Bob Quinn hired people to manage these things for Caldwell , not because he ' s improved as a HC . I don ' t see how you can say the team has stopped shooting itself in the foot when we literally lost a game because we couldn ' t stop making dumb penalties . When I watch a team shut down in the second half and play as inconsistently as we have I don ' t see a disciplined unit . Stafford is having a career year but I really don ' t know how much credit you can give to Jim Caldwell for that . At the end of the day Jim Caldwell is a mediocre coach . He ' s been a better coach then I thought he could be this season , and he might even work for this team in the short term , but the overwhelming amount of evidence all points to him being a mediocre HC .