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Sincere question: are there examples of when firing a staff, of a bottom-tier team, mid-season helped accelerate a turn-around? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by wigglethetail@alien.top to c/bears@nfl.community

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I’m struggling with this one. Obviously I want this coaching staff gone, but what benefit does letting them go now bring? Would love to hear about past successes if anyone has any.

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[–] SwissyVictory@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Teams tend to win an extra half game after firing their head coach, especially early on.

However it's difficult to compare any of them to our situation. Normally the DC and OC kind of step up and take over their side of the field, and the let the HC just do HC stuff.

Bears already lost their DC and the HC is effectively the DC.

So let's say we fire Flus and Getsy. Now we have a positional coach or outsider as our HC, OC, and DC. As far as I know, that's never happened.

Let's just say we fire Flus, the team will have been through 3 DC changes in a single season.

On top of that, we decided to go with a really young coaching staff to back up our first time HC, OC and DC. It's great to have alot of young fresh tallent you can shape, but now that we;re in a situation like this, you don't have much experience to lean on. How do you fire your coaching staff and trust things are going to fall apart further?

Position	Age
ST	43
LB	41
S	46
TE	36
CB	66
QB	35
OLine	??
DLine	??
WRs	56
RB	??

And to anyone who says it can't get worse, it can always get a whole lot worse. We not only have to worry about this season, but this offseason where we have to convince free agents we were just a QB and coach away.

With games like the Lions, where we barely lost, we can do that. If we lost by 20 points, maybe not.