Originally posted by NC49er:
Originally posted by genus49:
Originally posted by Method:
Kyle is not a good head coach. 1 playoff year out of 5 years is unacceptable. Fire him.
I love this.
Who are you replacing him with?
Fans love to fire/cut people but rarely have a solution in mind. At least one that makes sense.
I use to be general manager for a dealership and we had this one guy in the parts/service department who would piss off at least one customer a week. It was so bad that when another employee would come in and say there is an upset customer on the phone, we knew who it was about. As a matter of fact he's the only employee that we ever got calls about.
I begged the owner to let me fire him but she would say " But if we fire him who are we going to get to replace him?"
Never was able to fire him and there's no telling how much business was lost due to him.
Bottom line, it's bad for any business to retain a F up because they are scared they can't find someone better.
I believe you give any coach,player a shot to do their jobs but Kyle's had enough time and a pattern is forming,and that pattern is not good.
He does not even acknowledge he is a large part of the problem and is unwilling to adapt or remedy the problems.
I get the analogy but the difference is parts don't have a mind of their own so it sounds like you guys had a person who sucks at dealing with customers in a customer relationship area.
Shanahan definitely has made a mess of things this year but the fact remains that in the NFL offense rules all right now. Josh Allen talked about how the best thing for his development was keeping the same people around after his early struggles. Firing Kyle after we just made that major move for Trey Lance just doesn't make sense.
We absolutely have to see how he does with Lance for a full season. Now if we just completely fall apart here then I don't think Lance saves him but you wouldn't be just getting rid of a f up as you put it...you'd also be f'ing up the players and a young QB in the process.
And let's be honest if we're getting rid of Kyle then we're going through a full blown front office change. No way John Lynch stays behind as GM as we bring in a new HC.
Any time a new coach comes in there are a lot of changes. Personnel changes - the guys Shanahan was high on may not fit the new guy's scheme.
Do we really want a full blown rebuild? We have a lot of young players on this team, do we want all of them having to learn a new scheme?
In your analogy if your boss let you replace him with someone who knows those parts odds are if he's good with customers he'd be an improvement. Players aren't interchangeable parts.
You make that change and the rest doesn't just fall into place IMO. Plus if you get rid of Kyle then unless you bring in another offensive minded HC who can call his own plays, you're in danger of doing the OC shuffle - a QB nightmare.
