Well, Let's get Ben Johnson as HC and a QB with a top 2 pick in the Draft
Please prepare yourself, there is almost no shot that DA gets fired. We would have to get blown out in every remaining game for it to even be considered. Even then there is no guarantee.
That became obvious to me when Loomis extended Carr's contract, Cam's and a few others. This guarantee's a few things.
1. We have a load of dead money coming our way and big contracts of massively underperforming vets, creating future cap issues. If you think we were having cap problems last offseason, just wait. It gets worse.
2. No great head coach candidate is going to sign on with a sinking ship unable to sign free agents, with little draft capital, with an aging roster that is underperforming greatly. Our cap, and roster, essentially locking Carr into the starting QB role for at least two more years means we're not looking at starting over. Carr is Dennis Allen's guy. As long as we're tied to Carr, we're tied to Dennis Allen.
3. Even if we move on from Allen this offseason, the head coaching job would be about as attractive as Carolina/Cleveland.
At this point, the only thing that makes any sense at all, is for Loomis to keep DA next season and the season after, eat as much dead money as possible next offseason and the season after, and then start over. If we were going to have any solid shot at starting over, the cap cleanup and roster cleanup needed to start this offseason. We could've done it in 1 year, but after extending Carr and some other aging bloated contracts, it will likely take two years.
If you think this season is bad, just wait till next year when Carr, Taysom and Kamara are older and more prone to injury, Davis, Jordan and HoneyBadger are older and underperforming, and we move on from Lattimore.
DA will have to rely on Werner, Adebo, Taylor, Raheed and Miller. LOL. They're great players, but they're not good enough to come anywhere close to outplaying bad coaching. Our lone super bright spot is Kamara. And again, he can't do it all by himself without good coaching.