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You have to put everything in perspective. Pioli and Clark keep talking about stability, and Clark wants to emulate the Pittsburgh model, and Pioli and Clark keep talking about the head coach and the GM sharing a vision and the head coach being the face of the franchise and going out and getting players that mesh with the head coach's personality.
So if Clark really wants to keep stability in the organization, he either has to give Herm an extension, a commitment for the long term, or go out and get that new coach who they will be patient with. Letting Herm coach one year while speculating all year as to who replaces him or if he's doing enough to come back would be totally in contradiction to the whole stability thing they keep harping on.
Keep in mind that Pioli also threw out something there in the interview about the draft, while it is the main way to build and sustain your team, is not the only avenue the NFL provides, and that all avenues need to be looked at to bring in talent, wherever it is. You can't restrict yourself to the draft. This to me signals his intention to target certain free agents for this team or trade for certain players, and remember Herm wasn't exactly for that last year, he just wanted to stockpile as many draft picks and free agent non-draftees he could and build the team that way, and not sign many free agents. There's a lot of things I've heard Herm talking about that don't seem to mesh with the way Pioli wants to do things...
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