How are you feeling overall about Poles & Flus entering yr-3

I'm not opposed to Flus because he's DEF-minded. HCs can have success no matter what their background is. I'm not high on Flus because he coaches poorly and not to lose when the game is tight. If he can break this habit, and trust his OC+OFF to win and close out games I'll be happy and admit I was wrong. 

This is what I fear: Flus/Getsy blew the Denver game and then they both choked away the first Lions game. Then came the Browns game and Flus decided to get risky but still blew it with a terrible playcall in that situation. thats 3 losses, and the only one he's going to remember is the Browns game. He took a chance to close out a game and it backfired. I don't think he has it in him to take another chance. 

I think ownership saw Flus as a safe hire after the disaster that was Nagy. (They actually have bounced back and forth with their recent hires. Lovie (DEF) to Trestman (OFF) then back to DEF with Fox, and then to Nagy (OFF). Nagy didn't work so lets go back to DEF-Flus.) From Trestman to Flus seems to me to be a knee-jerk reaction hire each time.  

If Williams is the man, than it won't matter--IF Flus can let the OFF play. I just have my doubts based on his history (again, not that he is a former DC) that he can do that.

I definitely see all of your points and they are valid.  Part of the success equation is to have that elite QB1 on the roster.  Then you need a GM who can manage the roster quality within cap constraints.  That is huge, especially now that contracts for some key positions are outrageously escalated.  We are going to see teams with 50% of their cap sunk into 3 players and the GM will need to complete the other fifty remaining players  - with half the money to work with.  I definitely agree that Eberflus needs to develop as an HC in this 3rd season.  If he does then we have our GM/QB1/HC in place for the next several years of winning.  I'm thinking of the great dynasties of the past... that is certainly possible if we have those three factors GM/QB1/HC set with quality guys. That is how sustained success can happen.  I think we probably have 2 of the 3 set... and I am so hoping Eberflus proves to be the 3rd for us.  

Happy with poles, but a little worried about his ingrained tendencies and think he will be a little more erratic after Cunningham leaves. I think more and more Cunningham is his voice of reason and a big part of the brains. Not to say poles is useless without him, but I think as a team, they are VERY successful. I think it will go down a notch but also hope Poles keeps growing in the meantime.

Not spelled out. But I read that Poles wanted to use a pick to trade up to get Rome, but Cunningham talked him down. And I can't remember what exactly (hell, I can't remember what I did 10 minutes ago), but I remember reading about another instance where Cunninham talked him into or out of a bad move. So no, nothing I heard says he makes most of the moves. Of course, he might, none of us really knows the internal workings, but Poles seems like a take charge confident dude. I imagine he calls the shots. No reason to think otherwise.

Now, that does not mean that Poles does not have good instincts on his own or that Cunninham is the real GM or anything like that at all. But it does tell me that they make a good team bouncing stuff off of each other and that Cunningham has great instincts that have helped Poles in the past. So it tells me that he probably won't be as good without him. That is no way means he will be bad.