I would say that who ever the GM candidates are, they already have a list of coaches.

Hunt probably wouldn’t keep Thum around if he thought he would be more of the same. It is really encouraging to see the direction that Mr. Hunt is taking this team.

Their flights were delayed so they organized a pick up game with Lord Lucan, Sasquatch, a Gray Alien, Amelia Earhart , the crew of the Marie Celeste and Jimmy Hoffa.

And the new regiem here fails, I don’t expect many people to step up. If he goes in elsewhere and fails, I do expect a lot of crowing, even if the new HC does poorly.

Especially if he’s so radically different in approach that he guts the team of our current talent, and starts over, and we have a few more poor-to-mediocre years. Or worse, he brings in a lot of overpriced FAs, and masks his failure for a season or two with another one-short “run at the SB” in year 2 or 3., then bails when the house of cards comes crumbling down.

I never have claimed that Herm’s an elite HC, but we’re far enough into the youth movement that I’d rather take another year of Herm, followed by a good fit, than a quick new HC hire who can’t use the talent pool we have.

For HC and QB: getting an upgrade would be good. Just so that we don’t end up sabotaging the Team in rolling the dice on new guys in either slot. Any replacement at either position had better be able to upgrade their positions immediately. Jam yesterday and jam tomorrow, but never jam today was Carl’s schtick, and I, for one, am sick of it.

Respectfully, that goes the same for those who dream here about how angelic the new GM/HC team “will” be. I don’t have the patience for much more “wait until next year” with a new staff, so if Herm’s out the door, then the next set had damn well be ready to hit the ground running, and show immediate results with the talent we have /now/. YMMV.

Herm’s got game-day weakensses, right enough – but he does have one quality that is pretty rare: moral courage. He didn’t take the patchwork route, covering his own ass thereby. He made the hard choice: gut out and elderly team, knowing that he’d take a hit from fans in doing so. You don’t see that every day in life, let alone in the NFL. If he’d gotten the chance to do it back in ’06, we might be havi8ng a very different discussion right now. (yeah, yeah – coulda, woulda, shoulda. Just as valid as maybe, expectedly, hopefully).

Going back to, let’s say, the playoff game vs. Indy.
Huard finishes the season strong – Trent Green comes back for the playoff game and is named the starter – Trent comes out and sucks goat nards for pretty much the whole game. At no point does Herm even consider putting Huard in to try to give the team a spark. His decision to stick with Trent through a whole game because that was “what was right”. This is a playoff game mind you, where everything should be on the line, spare nothing. If it were a regular season game, fine.

Keeping McIntosh at RT early in the year when he was playing miserably – for the sake of cohesion on the O-line – while going against the whole philosophy of his “youth movement”. It wasn’t until the move to the spread that McIntosh started to look ok. I believe it was more due to scheme than McIntosh improving.

While not entirely his decision (I think), choosing to cut Barth at the start of the season due to his “youth an inexperience”… again while touting a so called youth movement. Ultimate stubbornness would have been never bringing him back mid-season. Perhaps this wasn’t an example of stubbornness, just poor decision making.

So I may be off on a few of these. But this is what made me call Herm stubborn. I’m sure there are others that I just can’t recall right meow.