Saleh is certainly better than Brick because with him and Brick both focusing on defense, defense was better earlier this year, though clearly not as good as last year even before Saleh left. But with Saleh essentially we could count on getting to 7 wins this year. With Brick we probably will get 5. Which one would you rather have? Getting to 7 wins, which all Saleh can do, to me is meaningless. Frankly speaking, I would prefer 5 wins to 7, which would ensure we get new regime and a better draft pick (top 5 pick) for that regime.
While I agree with your point, and I believe we are in desperate need of a regime change, the 5 versus 7 pick is far less important, as is more a function of who does the picking than the actual draft order. If we don’t select a top GM, it becomes meaningless to me.
We are on the same page there. Presumably a higher pick would be more attractive to the new GM, increasing the chance of whoever that is to be better. But it is just theory. Either way, I prefer a better pick to the worse one, given we were not sniffing play-offs regardless. But also, don't forget the benefit of 5 wins, which it is it will make sure we get all new regime. With Saleh still here and 7 wins, dumbass Woody might be thinking it is just Saleh he needs to get rid of and keep JD and others. So, overall, while I acknowledge Saleh is better than Brick and defense would have been better, and maybe we would have won a couple of more games total, we would have still sucked, and I still think firing Saleh is better for us. Would have been better if it were done last year, but I don't miss the guy.
It's really wild how many seasons we've had over the last decade where the ideal outcome by Thanksgiving was to do as badly as possible the rest of the way.
