Tobin in the hotseat?

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(09-28-2020, 05:21 PM)TJHoushmandzadeh Wrote: It's not about this season. It's more about next season but mainly about 2022 and 2023 when we have a cost-controlled QB approaching his prime.

This isn't something you can fix overnight. It's unlikely rookies will get it right immediately which means we need to be drafting them in 2021 for the 2022 and 2023 Super Bowl runs. To draft them in 2021 we need to be scouting them now. 

To appoint the right coaching staff we need the person with the right vision in the front office. Is that Tobin?

If not, now is the time to move on. The window to exploit Burrow's rookie contract is closing.

The problems pre-date the current coaching staff, but even where the coaching staff are to blame, then you have to look at who appointed them. 

I get it's not about this season. So because of that, there should be no hesitation to change up the coaching staff. They are who they are at this point. The defense can't really get much worse, nor can the OL. You can bring in Alexander as a stopgap OL coach and someone like Wade Phillips to try to coach up the defense. Just like Marvin did after Austin was let go midseason, you won't be able to turn it completely around but you can shift from terrible to mediocre.

The way you phrased your OP was that there isn't benefit to changing the coaching staff midseason because it won't impact anything this season. But Tobin has 0 impact on the players on the field at this point in the season, unlike the coaches, so moving on from Tobin doesn't really accomplish anything. Besides, most of the "good" candidates to replace Tobin probably are going to be consumed with their current team, so why not wait until the offseason when there's a better crop to pick from?