I am disappointed as well. I never bought into the hype neither and I never buy anything jones sells. btw, garrett was offered the job with the ravens.
the only coach that has had true impact on this team has been parcells. we were chaotic, disorganized and lacked direction until he got here. wade's rode the coat tails of parcells with the team, it wasn't wade, it was parcells. we had some of our worst drafts in history under wade and couple of our great drafts with parcells. once we started to draft bad again, the team deteriorated very quickly as we weren't able to replace talent nor provide depth. the team also became lazy, laxed and lacked discipline. which eventually ran out of steam from parcells structure and totally collapsed.
I blame Jerry first, I blame wade and I blame garrett. I have also come to accept that it doesn't matter who the coach is, they come here to fail. the organization as it operates today is not set up to succeed. it will fail and even if it starts to find success, Jerry starts to meddle even more, which leads to failure.
I was against wade as a head coach because he had failed in the past and had proven he might be a great DC, but not a great head coach. the only reason he got the job was because he coached the 3-4 and he was willing to take garrett as an OC. he just wanted a head coaching job. he didn't care. if he did, things wouldn't implode like they did.
now, in regards to those three end of season games. I never expected us to be there in that situation. first year I picked us to be last in the division. last year I didn't take we make it and although I started to have some expectations for the team to start to improve, as soon as we changed to 4-3, I knew we would not succeed, because change of scheme is a 2 game set back minimum. this year, excuses or not, we had a lot of injuries to deal with. our defense was going to struggle switching schemes, but having injuries just made it really really bad.
I think garrett is got a lot to learn, but given circumstances, lack of head coaching experience, he has done as good as possible or better in the current situation dealing with Jerry. we have had better drafts. we have gotten rid of fat cats and locker room cancers. we have some semblance of direction. his game management still needs work, he needs to control room better (but that's jerry more than anything else).