Didn’t take a rocket scientist to know this was the right call.
Fun fact: No full time coach ever fired by the Lions has been named an NFL head coach again.
I feel bad for Detroit because they have allowed coaches and GMs time to build but they almost all inevitably fail. They have talent on the roster too. They have the offensive personnel to be good!
100% but let's pump the breaks on the GOAT talk...most of his throws are wide open...people love to say is is Brady or BB, there is far more of a legit question of it is Mahomes or Andy.
This isn't personal to you but I don't think the question/discussion/debate of who is more responsible for greatness is appropriate. You need both strategy and execution. The game plan should be what based around what the QB and offense does best vs how to attack a defense. Everything is connected and the coach and the QB work in tandem but ultimately no matter how well a coach designs a game-plan the physical and mental execution are paramount. Personally I think being able to execute it physically and mentally is harder than coming up with a game-plan in a vacuum. But I don't get why people want to compare two different things when you need both.
Andy Reid has been and will continue to be a good head coach. He generally knows how to maximize the effectiveness of his personnel.
Re: wide open throws
Brady threw to plenty of open guys for multiple reasons: because BB and Brady knew how to stress one defender forcing his hand to cover one of 2 guys, by using certain pre-determined play concepts designed to attack holes in different types of coverage and to add to that using movement pre-snap to help determine what the defense is going to run, route conversions are meant to get receivers more open and like all other teams the Patriots have a ton of different route conversions and breaks based on how the defender is playing the receiver, when they heavily used slot receivers against mismatched LBs and slower safeties in the 2000's, when they used 12 personnel to force mismatches when the defense went light or heavy, then when they used hurry-up to keep mismatches on the field and tire out the defense, and now they are trying to do that with bully-ball which would work in theory but their WRs and TEs leave a lot to be desired.
I wouldn't think less of Brady just because he enjoyed the benefits of the above-mentioned points as well as throwing to guys like Branch, Brown, Welker, Moss, Jules, Cooks, Gronk, Hernandez, Faulk, Vereen, White, etc.
I like how the Saturday to Sunday guys evaluate players by how they solve different problems on the field and which ones challenge them more. We know how Brady solves problems. He uses timing and anticipation, manipulating safeties with his eyes, having the answers to the test by knowing what the defense is going to do and being on the same wave-length with his receivers to exploit their weaknesses. Brady might not be a threat to run but he has great pocket presence and a quick release. He's never been a good out of structure guy. Mahomes has some overlapping skills in his problem solving toolset and some different ones. He makes pin-point accurate throws, has a cannon of an arm, can throw from multiple arm-angles/slots, is mobile and can not only throw on the run but scramble for yards.
I don't like the GOAT debate which is easy, Brady. I like talking about historical tiers. We've seen some historically elite QBs the last 20 years. Brees, Brady, P. Manning, Russ, Rodgers, and Russ and then to a lesser degree Big Ben and Rivers. Russ is still slaying today. If Seattle's offense had been more pass happy the last 4-5 years I think sportswriters would be talking about how Russ is on the GOAT path too. Mahomes current trajectory places him on the path to be a generational QB. 6-8 QBs every 20 years are in that category. Everyone 3-4 years we should see another great QB developing. Since Russ in 2012 only 3 QBs have been consistently excellent unless injured: Dak, Watson, and Mahomes. Lamar, Allen, and Murray might take that leap too or they could plateau or regress like Wentz and Goff. Could Tua, Burrow, or Herbert be next? If Mahomes sticks in his situation with his skillset, a consistently good set of players around him, and Reid as a HC unless he is injured he is going to get there. I don't see appreciating how good Mahomes is as being somehow disloyal to our guy, Brady, or cheapening his legacy of greatness. Mahomes obviously needs to continue being elite but he is already playing that way.