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Analysis: Rookie coaches need more time for job evaluations

Rookie head coaches usually inherit losing teams and are tasked with quickly building a winning culture in the NFL.

If they don't get it done fast enough, it's onto the next coach.

There's no patience in sports, but judging guys before the midpoint of their first season is unfair.

Only one of the NFL's seven first-year coaches has a winning record. Brandon Staley is off to a 4-2 start with the Los Angeles Chargers. It helps that he took over a team that finished 7-9 last year and already had a franchise quarterback in Justin Herbert.