Ballard and Steichen are safe

[Kray007]

Reports are that they’ll be back next year

[nate505]

After this amazing season and successful track record, of course they are.

[ChoppedWood]

The Socials are exploding in rage at this. With good reason. We are rewarding failure, over and over and over again.

[ChaosTheory]

Aw, poor beat writers.

[Hoopsdoc]

Not sure how I feel about this. I can see both sides of the argument.

[Dewey 5]

We're screwed. Is Ballard banging Carlie?

[Lov2fish]

I was on the boat of, if they went good. If they stayed, good. I know SS is green and he shows flashes of being a great coach. Then he does stuff remedial football players know are wrong. Since he is going to be here I hope he watches film on himself and sorts it out. Ballard struggles with certain aspects of talent evaluation, and excels at others. Maybe he can put his ego aside and get someone to help him where he is weak. A stretch I know, but as a fan I can wish.

[Puck]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

Not sure how I feel about this. I can see both sides of the argument.

I agree. We saw how it looks when were full strength. Shane has obviously done a very good job when he has a good QB. Injuries screwed us.

I will continue to say this even though many disagree. Jim held Ballard back on FA. IMO This yr he went for it and it made us a pretty good team Again Injuries screwed us.

IIRC Both Ballard and Shane are under contract through 2026. They will get paid no matter what. So they would have to pay their replacements also.

replacements would be coming in knowing they do not have a 1st round pick for the next two drafts.

I do expect we will be losing some players like some or most of us want gone

[Kray007]

No one should be surprised. Until their starting Quarterback broke his leg, they were one of the most dominant Offenses in the league. On D, few teams could overcome the avalanche of injuries that sank that side of the ball into mediocrity. In addition to losing Ward, Gardner and Buckner, they lost Walley before the season began and injuries kept their most promising cover Linebacker, Carlies, on the sidelines.

Some will try to say that it’s possible to overcome injuries. They’ll point to San Francisco as evidence. The difference is that the 49’ers were never reduced to signing someone like Phillip Rivers off the street. They never played a game in which they started a 6th round draft pick who was 4th on the depth chart.

If you want to see the impact of a catastrophic rash of injuries at QB, look no further than Kansas City, where their 3rd stringer managed 260 yards passing in 3 games and KC scored a cumulative 34 points.

[IndyNorm]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

Not sure how I feel about this. I can see both sides of the argument.

Same. It's probably the best for next year, but not so sure long term. As I said in another post if inherit a business that's been in the red for 5 straight years and 7 of the last 9 then it's probably time to move on from your COO.

Also, I'm pretty disappointed that we lost to HOU after they put in most of their backups in the 2nd half. Especially disappointed w/ how our OL performed against their backup DL.