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Originally Posted by loochy
Yeah. I mean it's the Raiders so it's hard to feel bad, but WTF is he supposed to do with that team and especially that QB situation?
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Nothing.
But fix the QB situation and he'd still do nothing.
When the QB sucks, it's hard to tell if you have the right guy. I don't think it's that hard to tell if you have the wrong one.
Pierce was overmatched from the jump. And there's no better place for that to be proven than the division with Reid, Payton and Harbaugh.
The latter 2 aren't in the same class as Reid, but Pierce isn't in the same class as them either.
There are too many good coordinators out there to stick with a guy who's ceiling as a HC is mediocre. When Dennis Allen is the sort of guy you might end up as someday, I just don't know what the point in keeping you around is.
I honestly don't know how you break the door down as a defensive-minded HC anymore. You have to be successful immediately to get the sort of buy-in that would be necessary to build a program that way.
DeMeco Ryans is the only guy you can point to as a guy who really got a quick turnaround and seemed to have bought himself some time. But man, if they go one and done and then Stroud continues to spin his wheels next season, they may move on from him as well.
If you can point to whiz bang offensive shit you do, you can buy yourself some time (see that ridiculous frontrunning fraud, Mike McDaniel). But these defense first CEO style coaches have to point to their record and it had better be good in a hurry.