Next year will be interesting. I am very curious to see if this was just a down year for some of our players (and for that matter, our coaching staff), or if we are in serious trouble going forward.
I do think that we have to move on from Wade Phillips regardless. His Super Bowl performance was outstanding, as was his 2018 playoff showing as a whole. That won him everyone's confidence after a so-so 2017-18 regular season. But he is in his 70s now, put in another season where his body of work is nothing special, and the 3-4 defensive scheme is generally the lesser model, in my humble opinion. If we don't cut ties now we will need to do it in a year or two. Pull off the band-aid now, I say, and start moving forward.
