Unless McC makes some "media can't stop talking" mistake during a game, he will be the HC in 23.
Let's say the team doesn't make the playoffs, aren't the two coordinators just as much to blame? Why hire them?
It is unknown as to whether Payton wants to coach but he passed up a rumored 20M a year from Miami. Do you really think Booger is going to even approach paying any HC that kind of coin?
McC is safe for the same reason Garrett was for 10 years, they are both HC in name only. Booger has to shoulder some of the blame because he wants the credit.
Booger, inadvertently, dropped the hint during a pc when he let it slip that he approves the game plans. Think all of the GM's do that? Think most of them even know how to do that? Before you answer that, 30 GM's work for owners. Do you think they want to be on the line for a HC's game plan if he is on the hot seat?
No, they hire the man and then let him go about building his staff and he's given the rope to pull himself up or hang himself. 30 GM's in the NFL are all about buying the ingredients, not getting in the kitchen where it is the hottest. There is only one owner that makes the HC announcements in the league. Not even Mike Brown does that.
So, if you consider Payton, Booger must pay him and stay out of his kitchen, think that will happen?
As far as hanging that playoff loss on McC, didn't Quinn know exactly what the Niners were coming to do? He didn't stop it, that was as much, if not more, on him than McC. And McC, shockingly, admitted in the post game to having no participation in the game plan or calling and this is a respected offensive coach in the league,
Bullet asks an interesting question to which I really only have one response. Does it really matter?