I don’t think that’s accurate. This offseason he:
Let the DB & DL coaches go and replaced them with
Changed out his SC coach & when his hire bolted promoted a guy but also hired an extremely experienced guy to work with him.
When his LB coach left he hired a guy who can coach and mentor his young DC
Promoted a promising young offensive assistant
We’ll see if any of the above works. If it does, great. If not, it’s (still) on him but at least he is trying.
The problem I see is the departures are either leaving for what they feel is a better situation, or we “fired” them and they were immediately picked up by good programs. Then, we replaced them with question marks that no one was pursuing except us. I don’t know that we’ve upgraded a single position in terms of coaching and you could argue we’ve gone backwards in several. I can commend him for doing
something about the current state, but guys like Sale and Couch still being employed make it feel like a superficial, please the mob approach while not actually addressing some of the greatest areas of concern. And lastly, the 3 recent departures don’t paint a very optimistic picture. As always, I’ll be there against um in week 1 and still would be happy if he miraculously pulled this out. But I don’t think the signs point to that.