That sounds like DA's "keep doing what we're doing" and "chopping wood" approach. Curry may not have had play calling experience, but he'd been here for years and knew the plays as well as anyone. And maybe you're right that we were still in the playoff hunt at 5-7 and not technically eliminated, but it was more a product of the other division teams also being bad. Not our team playing well.
So I understand why we might not have, I just see it as a massive missed opportunity to have gotten a preview if we were ultimately going to tie our boat to that dock for the next couple of seasons.