I get where
@Silverdude2167 is coming from. Some of this is hard to understand from the outside so it’s understandable to be worried they are making a mistake by letting the best football coach in history go.
I think the Krafts are looking at this somewhat like they are parting ways with a longtime CEO who has managed a company for a long time and still has certain business lines humming along but has increasingly had higher and higher profile failures that he’s been unable to address.
There are almost certainly things about the organization as it is today, even with the 4-13 record that they feel good about – and other aspects that they concluded would require new leadership. Based on the fact that they brought in BOB to fix a specific area of the organization and things actually got worse, my sense is that it’s probably less things like “offense” and “personnel” they identified as the issues so much as the decision making and cultural things that go into those areas. And those are at Bill’s feet.
I think we tend to simplify the problems this team has had into binary terms – defense good and offense bad, coaching good and personnel bad. And so forth. But again, those are outputs. I don’t think you can watch and follow this team over the last few years without concluding that, based on both the reports and the on field results, the organization had become dysfunctional. And ultimately the Krafts concluded that they couldn’t address the dysfunction with Bill still in charge.