I really don't know what to think, has anything like this ever even been done before? I'm not sure any of those are great comparisons. You could just as easily flip those particular comparisons... Dungy took his act to Indy and won. Gruden took his act to Tampa and won. Sure those were some differences... but it's not like Bill Walsh and Mike Holmgren had the exact same mix either. Heck, the biggest comparison of all is Belichick took his act to New England and created the dynasty of our generation. Parcells didn't win it all but he took his band of merry men and made contenders out of New England and New York when they were complete dog feces.
This is a fairly unique situation, and I'm not confident there's any precedent to sit there and look at and say "This is what's going to happen." It's still up to Pioli and Haley to make good decisions.
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