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Originally Posted by apballin
Holy fuck did this season go off a Thelma and Louise cliff not even halfway thru
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Jim made a fatal error in not gutting the leadership at the end of last season.
The way we ended the year was endemic of a team that was fraying at the edges. Obviously Frank and Ballard convinced him way too much of it was on the shoulders of Wentz, and while a LOT of it was, clearly there were much deeper problems belying this squad.
They obviously oversold their ability to do better with a more polished QB even though LT was a huge problem.
It would certainly seem that Frank did little to no quality assurance work during camp to identify that we had a train wreck coming on the line, and thus there was NO effort to remedy it.
Frank appears to have been so oblivious to the level of awful in camp and pre-season that he never made any type of game plan adjustments to compensate (which is a terrible reflection on how bad he is at doing this shit).
Thus we arrive at this point where there is no way to remedy this shit- it's too baked into the season plan (though I contend a real coach would be able to at least keep it somewhat on the up and up).
Jim Irsay has no choice but to fire both Reich and Ballard. They've proven they aren't good at this and seemingly are willing to lie to him over and over and scapegoat others to save their asses. No place on a team for those type of selfish motherfuckers.