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Quinn got Thomas Dmitroff’d. After that Super Bowl, they were in such cap hell that they had to dismantle the majority of the team that got them there (Like Tevin Campbell and Devonte Freeman) to afford the huge contracts he was paying to Ryan and Julio Jones. If Quinn wasn’t a good coach, they wouldn’t have made it to the Super Bowl. It wasn’t all Shanahan. Quinn made chicken soup out of a chicken poop defense whose stars were such juggernauts as Vic Beasley and Adrian Clayborn. I think it’s unfair to give Shanny Jr all the credit for Atlanta’s successes and only hold Quinn accountable for their failures. That’s like giving Shanny Jr props for all of SF successes the year they went to the Super Bowl even though it was their defense that got them there.
Wins and losses are a team sport. There are lots of coaches out there who people clamor about who’ve never coached a team to a Super Bowl, even as a coordinator. John Fox, for example, gets a lot of ire from people for Fox ball or whatever, but he did coach 2 completely different teams to Super Bowls. Everyone seems to wanna suck on McVay’s crank all the time, but he’s got the most expensive/mercenary/non-drafted/non-sustainable roster in the league and he hasn’t won a Super Bowl. He got them there once and then his supposed unbeatable, innovative offense couldn’t even score a TD. He bombed out just like Shanny Jr and like, dare I say, Fox and Quinn. If McVay or Shanny Jr were available, I’m sure everyone would be pounding the table for them, though. Because they’re innovative? They have the same track record as Quinn right now.