Serious question: what HC candidate in their right mind would want to come here?

[Mr. Scot]

Similar take...

 

[t96]

8 minutes ago, jamos14 said:

The issue was not the winning/losing IMO.  It's that there has been 0 growth.  It's actually gotten worse as the season went on.  No potential to build on.

 

Yeah completely understood but sometimes that growth does take time to manifest itself. Of course it's a balance with no exact answer -- no team these days is going to give a coach 5 losing seasons and a .500 season before finally winning (like Tom Landry) on that extreme end of the long leash spectrum. But 11 games is really just too short of a time to properly evaluate a coach. I didn't like the idea of getting Reich in the first place and obviously he's sucked so I'm happy we're moving on, but sending a message to candidates that the leash can be that short just isn't good. Maybe it won't wind up mattering and we can land Ben Johnson or whoever but we probably should've waited until after the season. I'd also have considered just keeping Reich and Bryce next year to give them a last chance to turn things around or alternatively (more likely) be some excellent tank commanders for our '25 pick. '25 would be a better time to hire a coach for this franchise too.

 

This team since Tepper took over has been simultaneously rebuilding and trying to compete and flip flopping between the two, which has us in this terrible limbo of suck. In years where we should be rebuilding we've traded away draft capital for win-now players like Gilmore, and then Tepper decides we have huge expectations and want to compete immediately this year, after having just traded away DJ and McCaffrey -- who would probably be our 2 best players on the entire team right now if they were still here (maybe Brown has an argument over DJ, but no other player is in the discussion). Just further evidence of Tepper having no idea what he's doing

[Mr. Scot]

This doesn't exactly bode well for us either...

 

[heel31ok]

3 hours ago, t96 said:

Knowing that a slow start with an atrocious roster could get him fired within 11 games. fug you Tepper

not if he can coach, lead a staff, and hold people accountable.

[t96]

19 minutes ago, heel31ok said:

not if he can coach, lead a staff, and hold people accountable.

you trust Tepper to evaluate those things?

[Mr. Scot]

So it turns out this was already a concern last year...