For those who don’t think we should fire Frank this year, and give him an additional year to see what shapes out… why? I truly want to understand what it is that you see differently than the rest of us.
We’ve had plenty of “why Frank should be fired” posts, so I’ll keep my points short for the initial post. If you’re on the “keep frank” side, please let me know what your view on these points is.
1. We have gotten worse week over week
2. Play calling is very clearly an issue since the pre-season
3. Frank has shown time and again that he is set in his ways and does not adapt
4. Keeping a coach we know won’t have long-term success does more harm to Bryce’s future and puts us in a NY Jets/Cleveland Browns type of situation.
I’m team bring in a new GM and let them decide what to do, but here’s the pro-Frank argument:
it’s simply a personnel issue. The results wouldn’t be meaningfully different with any other coach. You just can’t accurately judge a coach unless the roster is at some minimum level of talent (this is the main reason)
all of the complaints about his personality/if he has lost the locker room are just total nonsense that people make up when frustrated with the season. He takes blame in press conferences because that’s who he is as a person. He will never, ever do anything except put the blame on himself, even when it’s not accurate (and that’s what a good coach should do publicly). The lack of emotion is just nonsense people complain about when their team is losing. Nobody complains about Andy Reid, Shanahan, etc not being emotional. You have no idea what the locker room is like and how the players feel about it.
a new coach and new scheme will just stunt BY’s progress even more as he has to learn all the new stuff
this staff is very, very qualified, yet everyone likes to point fingers that this entire staff of highly respected coaches across the league is actually just terrible. But I think there’s a non-trivial chance that this staff is actually not the issue and the roster is just that bad. There is no guarantee a new staff is better.
Basically, it boils down to people placing WAY too much blame on the coaching staff. The best coaches in the world are worth ~3 wins. The best QBs are worth 2x that and the best GMs are worth even more as they pick the players. It’s the worst offensive roster in the league. Bottom 10 at every single position (bottom 5 at a few). That’s the problem