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That's the baffling part. It wasn't a mirage. You don't accidentally beat Miami, Dallas, KC and Buffalo all in a row, 3 of them with comebacks. Yea they had flaws we all saw but fixable flaws. They showed incredible grit to keep fighting through all that though.
This was year 3, the decision is whether to keep him for year 4.
Maybe I'm just not able to think of one, but I don't think the "Give the coach one more year to try to turn things around" after a disastrous season has ever seen that coach turn things around enough to win (or make a serious run at) a SB. It usually goes one of two ways: they improve some things and achieve mediocrity until they are fired, or they flail around even worse trying to save their skin and don't make it through that next season.
I think that’s the case with many who rely so heavily on their legs. He looked so slow so early on as well. His rushing and the RPO’s should be a staple of the offense and we barely ran them this year.
If the coordinators have such free reign to be awful for 7 weeks with no adjustments, isn't that enough of a reason to think he isn't the right coach going forward? He's either asleep at the wheel or obliviously driving the bus, as the bus goes off the cliff. Neither is a good look.
Bradberry and Slay both fell off. Bradberry swan-dived off an Acapulco cliff and Homer Simson'ed off the cliff face the whole way down. Slay just got older.
I agree with what the premise of your question is basically asking "Why would anyone"
He seemed to be a players coach that the players liked and played hard for. Until the SF game, he got them to buy in for 2.5 years. Then it just stopped.
And we have to be real here. His warts are showing and he's reading like a guy who does well when his seat gets warm before going right back to what got him there shortly thereafter. MAYBE it's the owner but right now Howie reads like a GM who's great at building for a year and horrible at retaining.
I think it's as simple as: personnel changes, the skills of the personnel change (forward or backward), and the league/teams adjust and evolve. If you're not flipping the right switches to react to all of that, you're not going to succeed.
Howie is way down on the list for me. Yes the LB and safety were issues but it wasn't like he didn't address them. Other teams have inferior talent at positions too but they don't look like they're running a backyard scheme.
But they competed and grinded out wins despite those deficiencies. After SF, they didn't care it seemed.
I agree. Just highlighting what Ive noticed from him the past few coaches
The book was out at that point for both sides of the ball. Every single team attacked the same way after that game.
I'm not sure making the case the team stunk the entire year, not just the last two months, is really a point in Sirianni's favor.
Yeah something happened at some point. It just looks like the players stopped caring and the play callers also stopped caring. It was just that comedy of calling the same 10 plays in the same sequence on offense every single time. And the defense, which I believe was like #1 against the run the first 7-9 weeks of the season, just stopped doing that. There were injuries, but nothing to the defensive line. It just seems, as simple as it is to say, we just had 2 really bad coordinators, 3 if you count Patricia. Brian Johnson was by far the worst of them. It was like he realized "Yeah we can just throw it to AJ, he will do it all the time" and over time the league just said, OK NO we aren't going to let you do that easy go ball stuff every play.
