Did you have DQ in mind ? When you hold NE and some of its obvious weapons to 19 that should be a W. Promote an Al Harris to DC then clean house on the offensive coaching side of the ball if things don’t improve as this season starts . It’s one game but what I’ve laid out could be a path forward in 2023.
As a matter of fact, I did. Ive said for a while that, if Mike's out, then DQ should be promoted. Payton isn't much different, and DQ got incredibly unlucky against the Pats in that second half. He's also 1-0 as an interim with us when Mike was out against the Saints. I think he'd make a great choice. Furthermore, Garrett and Mike are all offensive-minded, and they've failed (though, I get the distinct feeling that Moore is trying to give Mike the Wade Treatment). I think we do better when our HCs are defencive-minded, including with Wade with whom the only losing season we had was in 2010, and I think it's quite clear that he was sabotaged. The only defencive-minded HC that failed here miserably was Dave Campo, and that, in part, was because Jerry made some bafflingly destructive decisions such as passing on Randy Moss, trading for Galloway, and missing on Brady when we knew that Aikman was on his last legs (I was just starting as a new fan around then). I think if Jerry had the foresight of planning, then we'd have had a much different set of moves and who knows how things would've planned out?
