(11-17-2024, 05:43 PM)rfc17 Wrote:

(11-17-2024, 05:01 PM)MIJagsFan Wrote: I hate this logic. Like if you know you're firing him anyways the question in my mind shouldn't be why now? It should be why not now? I mean the benefits are that if say the interim takes over and does amazing, you got to try a new person at the helm and maybe keep them. You also send a message to other coaches and players that the team isn't messing around anymore, perform or you're gone. What's the benefits to keeping him?

I don't care one way or the other but it doesn't matter which direction they go. Unless there is someone on the staff they think has longterm potential (which i hope they dont), then yes that would make sense but otherwise it doesn't matter.

Remember when we had mel tucker finish the season for del Rio and then we hired malarkey? Or when we had Bevell finish for Meyer and then brought in pederson? Did it matter in the slightest we didn't let del Rio and Meyer finish the season? No. Or what about when they gave marrone the chance to finish for Bradley and then we kept marrone? Probably made us worse off cuz marrone didn't work out either.

It's similar to those stories at the end of each losing season where we talk about finishing strong to carry into next year. It's always silly of course because it doesn't carry over. It never does. 

The last 6 games of this year are completely meaningless. The only thing that could have any impact is if a player we will count on next year suffers a major injury that will limit their practice time with whichever coaching staff we bring in this offseason.

Again I don't care what they do. Today or after last game of the season. I'm just saying it will make zero difference. It just doesn't matter at all other then making fans feel good.

Yes, it very much did.

You have players on the roster under contract that need leadership, development, and opportunity. If you keep subjecting them to poison, eventually they turn ill. Get the disease gone as soon as you discover it.

Most teams don't fire coaches when they are winning, or have potential to win. So yeah, would make a bit of sense to say interim coaches rarely fare well. Usually the move comes when the last bit of patience has worn.

The Aints are 2-0 under their interim. Is he the next Tom Landry? Probably not. But the mindset of the team changed, the approach changed, and the funk of disappointment has changed. They probably won't win out, they probably won't make the playoffs, they probably will have a different coach next year. Allen wasn't it, and they needed to move on, plain and simple. Saving it for the end of the year wasn't going to benefit them in any way, other than not having to change the nameplates on offices.

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(11-17-2024, 06:37 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: Someone posited on whether Ryan Nielsen would ever work as a DC again. The same goes for Doug as HC. He's set a definite pattern of capturing lightning in a bottle for the first two or three season and then faceplanting. He'll end up as an OC somewhere with the agreement that his boy Press can't come along.

Doug's gonna sit at home and enjoy time with the grandkids. I don't see him even pursuing another major position. He doesn't seem to have that fire that you see in coaches that keep chasing vacancies.

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