You will all see that Kenny still sucks even with a different OC at the helm. I am hoping the FO realizes this and that we cut ties with Kenny ASAP. I cannot deal with us playing out his entire rookie contract. Sunk cost. Move on and go get Fields or bet the farm to go up and get Caleb.
If his play doesn’t improve, we’ll not get: “You can’t expect him to come in and play well under a new OC? I mean that’s even worse than when he didn’t get enough reps with the starters in training camp in year 1!”
KP still gets next year IMO.
I think this move is because they were losing the players (DJ outburst on the sideline and Najee’s press conference after the game). I think they’d done a really good job having the players keep their issues behind closed doors. But when they’d been patient and done what was asked for this long and they finally boil over, it’s time for the coach to go.
We’ll never know, but my guess is that Tomlin was ready for this to happen earlier but needed Rooney to OK it. And based on team history, Rooneys don’t like paying coaches to not work for them.