Post by ratsalad on Jan 17, 2022 20:42:49 GMT -6
I'm in favor of rebuilding, not retooling. We don't know the GM, the head coach, the coaching staff, the QB situation is up in the air. That's huge. The defense has expensive, aging, injured pieces that are declining in production and lots of one and two year guys on it with some glaring holes and deficiencies in talent and coaching of them. Why would this have been a bottom 10 defense for 2 seasons in a row with a coach who specialized if not positively fixated on defense if that wasn't the case?
The offense this season isn't as good as people make it out to be. Right in the middle of the road on lots of metrics with key pieces having injury problems.
The team is either improving and trying to win every game or they are choosing to get worse. Tanking for a player doesn't work. Trading good players for picks doesn't work; at best you pick a guy that was as good as the one you traded away, or you miss on the pick and have nothing. Dumping players in decline doesn't return any meaningful assets.
The only path to a Super Bowl is to add as many pieces as you can as often as you can, every year. "We should suck more and get worse next year!" is the opposite direction from a Super Bowl; any owner, coach, player, assistant, laundry washer, or popcorn vendor that thinks any form of that can F right on out of the building and go take the Bears job.
If Zimmer really did suck and was a liability to the team and should therefor have been fired (and I think that was the case), then a better coach should be expected to get better results.
Tanking most certainly does work. While Trevor Lawrence looks pretty bad, the Jags tanked for him and got him. Same for the Colts and Andrew Luck, and they made it really obvious and it worked out great until he injured too much.
... and neither is this Chris guy.
