Quote:Just to clarify after a couple of your posts in this thread, are you now advocating getting rid of Caldwell?


I feel like he has been veey methodical in his approach and has had a plan this whole time.

 

What I'm saying is this feels an awful lot like the same old circles and the franchise is chasing it's own tail.  Traction has been difficult if not nearly impossible.

 

Lets see... let's go back to the beginning of the fall...

 

We suck and the roster is bad.  Let's fire the coach/GM.  Coughlin gone.

 

We're soon good again.  Roster improves in spite of high profile draft pick busts.  We slump after hitting the playoffs, so we fire only the GM.

 

Under new GM talent is depleted, losses pile.  Fire only the coach.  Del Rio gone.

 

Talent is an all time low.  Gets both GM and coach fired again.  Mularkey, Smith gone.

 

New regime.  Talent and wins improve, but both at a very trickling pace.  Team seems like it may be getting traction, but uncertain that it might actually slip back into the rut.

 

All this, during the current regime, has run through Caldwell.  The player and coach selections, all Caldwell.  Just as those who are placing responsibility on Gus for all under him, all that is under Caldwell.

 

An indictment of one, is an indictment of the other, is it not?  It may have not been that way in the past, but that was explicitly the way it was set up this time.  No "committee," no owner hand in the process... just Dave.  I'm not saying fire anyone.  I just think we need to take a breath and take a broader perspective on it all.  If there are internal issues, there's one guy at the top where the buck stops - and it's Dave.

 

Make no mistake, this is just as critical a year for Dave Caldwell as it is Gus Bradley.  If there aren't significant improvements across the board, it's arguable that's more on Caldwell than it is Gus.  His players, his coach.

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