says who? We're on the outside looking in, exactly how this team clearly prefers it. If we've learned anything from this front office, it's that they handle their business in house, and they present things strategically.
If they want to let Kliff go, so be it. I'm not gonna be mad, but damn there are people on this board acting like the guy hasn't led us to be better offensively than any coordinator we've had over the last 30 years. To that point, that offense took us further than any offense we've had over the last 3 decades despite having all the 'benefits' that Kliff had last year. A top 5 QB pick. MULTIPLE times having a bottom of the division schedule. We've scraped into the post season by virtue of losing seasons... yet the line we draw is that this guy is the problem? Come on.
My point is, since we aren't behind the closed doors, we don't know all of what goes into their decision making process. So at one level, with that, there is a "who do you trust" with what we are able to see and what I guess we assume/guess to be true.
So, who do we trust given that?
I understand very well, that if we look at statistics, injuries, and the performance last year and this year, BAM. I don't see a good argument for letting KK go. How is that the whole story though?
Again, there IS more, and it's visible. Then, there can easily be MUCH MORE that IS invisible (behind closed doors).
Visible: DQ and KK with directly contradicting pressers, which is potentially a sign of dysfunction (for some, it automatically is, but for others, it depends on how it plays out; these contradictions have gone over 2 years which I would say is a problem).
Visible: KK does not play some of AP's draft picks much and there isn't any *visible* reason. We can assume KK sees problems with Sinnott. Can we also guess that KK liked Ertz a lot? Can we see a world where that *could* be true and rankled AP? I mean, look that's conjecture, but we can come up with 1000 similar conjectures that lead to what we have seen and a problem with Sinnott being benched, because as many of us have pointed out, his reps haven't completely lined up with what we have seen in his limited play, plus his need for more game time.
There is more to list here, but I think the main point is more simple. There are things going on behind closed doors in any well run organization that we will not be privy to. Those details could be better for KK than we know, or they could be worse. We just don't know. So what do we believe here?
I totally get the logic that says, KK with an ALL-AGREED garbage defense got us to the NFCCG, why on EARTH would we move on from him so soon, when there are all these injuries this year. IF that is the whole story. It's not though. There is more to this story, and there may be a LOT more that we don't know.
So for me, if they fire Kliff, I won't be surprised or sad. I also don't think it guarantees we will be better for it next year in terms of *results*. It's just the case sometimes that a coordinator just doesn't mesh for one reason or another within an org. It doesn't mean they are good or bad, but the fit isn't right.
Also I want to remind everyone that Josh Harris is on record FREQUENTLY (along with AP who has parroted it a few times) that he wants to build a long-term contender. So no, one trip to the NFCCG means nothing if they see signs of dysfunction in any place (including where we can't see, but I think we CAN see some) that would hinder our ability to compete consistently.
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