2 of those coaches were asked to leave. 1 was fired, the other accepted retirement. Every other one quit. Every single one made the choice, without ANY pressure from our owner, to leave. The owner especially wanted to keep Jimmy Johnson and Nick Saban, but they both either retired or asked to be let out of their contracts. What point are you trying to make? 1 in 6 coaches gets fired, and thats "pressured"? To me, that says "free rein until you mess up on a historic scale".
When you lose 15 games in a 16 game schedule, your liable to get fired. When members of the team start screaming at you because of your lack of leadership, your liable to get fired. When you draft players based on personal friendships and not on the field talent evaluation, your liable to get fired.
I'd say you are overlooking the fact that he benched Ronnie Brown at the beginning of the season. As a slap in the face, he had Ronnie Brown returning kickoffs in pre-season. This doesn't even take into account the fact he flat refused to take back Ricky Williams(who by all accounts has had the better success) until losing upwards of 5 running backs to injures(in part because of lack of offseason conditioning).
By the way, many on this forum wanted Patrick Willis. We needed someone to line up beside Zack Thomas(before Cam Cameron forced Dom Capers to switch to a 4-3 during the season) and eventually take his spot when he retired. So go ahead, ask the question: Where's Willis now?
So excuse me, seeing how im not impressed by your revisionist history.
