The offense is better. The team isn't.
The defense looks almost historically bad. By just the math, replacing Pete with a random NFL coach bringing a random NFL nets us a better result. It would be tremendously difficult to be worse than the worst defenses ever. Though Pete has had a funny trend of being the architect of some of the worst defenses ever. So there is that.
(Also, some of you act as if this roster was foisted upon Pete. That he is doing the best he can with what he has. This roster is his fault. Some of the problems are due to decisions that Pete made with the roster before the season. But much is the staff. This defense is literally his fault)
So yes, replacing Pete would have almost assured us a better defense. Would it be a good defense? With all the holes likely not. Would we be better as a team? Probably be at least 2 wins by this point.
I honestly think it is funny that people are fawning over the offense being better but not realizing that the defense being this bad means we are in such a worse position than we ever expected at the start of the year. This doesn't fix in 1 year almost assuredly, no matter who your QB is.
For all the laughing and jeering about Wilson, Pete is just as terrible so far - in terms of actual results. Both teams are probably going to end up at .500 and that will be the amusing thing.
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Team 3 would never have stayed on with Pete. The perception was that Pete was holding Wilson back. Wilson wanted an offensive coach to help him put up better #s. So no, there was no chance that Pete stayed and Wilson stayed....the only way to keep Wilson would have been to either jettison Pete or MAYBE kick him upstairs Tom Coughlin style.
So the argument over Wilson is lost and now there's a pivot to say Pete should be gone?... ok...
And replaced with what brilliant mind that's proven to be an upgrade? To say just flatly that we'd be better off cutting the coach that has now proven to have been handcuffed by a diva, as someone said- 'stuck on snadlot mode' qb for the last 6 years... sour grapes.
One of the winningest franchises in the last 12 years. Team of the decade. 2 superbowl appearances... and now OBVIOUSLY potential squandered in the playoffs in 18, 19, and 20 because we didn't have a qb who could run a legit offense. He never deserved the crap he took for 'holding Wilson back' . And his refusal to let Wilson have things his way kept us from looking like the Donks look now. For that, I'm eternally grateful because you could see it coming if Pete let it.
The defense is out of sync, but they won't be forever. It's been proven that despite the label of control freak, Pete has given considerable leeway to his coordinators to call games. He gave too long a leash to Norton. He's giving his new coordinators on D time to figure things out. How they'll do it this year with a shortage of players to run what they want to run, I don't know. But it doesn't make sense to start from scratch, scheme wise, 6 games in unless there's no chance to make the transition they're looking to make.
This team will be a force again very soon. But go-ahead and advocate getting rid of the guy who's built it all. He hasn't been perfect, but there's no way you get rid of a HOF coach on the cusp of a 2nd era of greatness.
It's the same logic that wanted Wilson here with a 'brilliant offensive minded coach' that could better utilize his talents and was ok letting PC walk. How's that logic working out?