He ' s been a head coach for six years , and in 5 of them he ' s equaled or improved his win total from the previous year . Our success this year is an incremental step forward from 2015 , just like 2015 was an incremental step forward from 2014 . In each season under Franklin , his team has overachieved . Our underlying numbers and analytics don ' t suggest that this year ' s performance was a fluke , and he ' s improved our team ' s performance in terms of numbers and analytics each year . Quite frankly , there ' s no evidence in Franklin ' s career to suggest that his 2017 team won ' t perform just as well if not better with the talent we have . Does that mean we definitely won ' t underachieve ? Of course not . But all the evidence suggests that what we ' re seeing this year isn ' t a fluke .