I think that's part of the rationale behind letting Philbin have the keys for a few games. Murphy and Gutekunst have likely already made up their minds on Philbin's fate. No sense in putting a guy in that spot that might force you to give them a harder look.
Can’t argue with that.
sure there was...a bit for the team but mostly to save MM the continued questions, stress, and anguish of the next four weeks.
Exactly. The only issue I had was that it had the, "we can't get you out of here fast enough" appearance to it. Other than that, there were a lot of reasons to end it now. Like you said, saves the inevitable weekly questions. The locker room that knows the coach is likely out at years end. It saves the locker room from division or further division if there is already in chosing a coach you believe in, or the QB you know is staying. They can really together behind a staff familiar with everything that has been installed and worked on all year, who also has zero pressure or expectations of anything, and give these players a chance to progress, get better, and grow.
If that happened... I’d be pretty angry with both Rodgers and McCarthy because it would be pretty damning evidence that they put their personal feelings above the team and could not work together to succeed. It’s not like Philbin will be running a different offense.
less than 17%
And that's more of what i expected from the front office. I was talking about the firing and announcement about 2.5 hours after losing to the Cardinals with a quarter of the season yet to go. I thought that was a bit tacky.
If he can manage 5 wins in the final 4 games then we should keep him. Otherwise he should be gone.
I don't understand a statement like this. Are you professing to know what Philbin did in his role? He certainly wasn't calling the plays since that was McCarthy. The guy was an important part of the offense prior to his departure in 2011 but I don't think many of us outside Lambeau really know what he was and wasn't allowed to do by McCarthy this season.
Well Title Town isn’t going to answer for a while since apparently he’s been put on vacation for a bit lol..... However i’ll jump in with a thought. If I remember correctly, Philbin’s issue in Miami was that it appeared that the inmates were running the Asylum. I don’t think he has a forceful enough personality to be a good head coach. He may be a good offensive coordinator, but a head coach needs to be able to control the team. This sounds like terrible idea unless you just want Aaron Rodgers running everything....
There are a lot of ways to run an asylum though. A strong head coach. A brilliant mind with a personable personality, but an iron fist GM that will handle inmates that get out of control. A dictator, a benevolent dictator, a democracy, or any mishmash of the above. Maybe Gutey and Murphy want to chose the HC as an OC type and keep Pettine as DC and rule as a group with the HC being the locker room liason and game planner among the other coordinators and they'll handle the personnel.
I understand your point, but the situation he had Miami doesn’t help his case.
no one left to clean out except zook and pettine. i can't imagine they would like to move pettine out. philbin out seems like a given.
I think the owner should coach the remainder of the season. Jerruh would.
