They fired the wrong coach. Bowles is terrible in the HC spot and the defense this year suffered for losing him as the full time coordinator. Brady had a good year by most standards but was clearly lesser against his own two previous years. Part of that is probably age but a significant part is that the team lost Ali Marpet to retirement, Alex Cappa to Free Agency and Ryan Jensen to injury most of the year. Plus the return of Fat Lenny didn't help either. They need to fix the line or it won't matter who is under center, they lost their trench strength and just can't run the ball at all anymore.

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