I quit believing in Pete last year.
Pete is a defensive minded coach faced with a roster where all his advantages over the other team rest on the offense.
He is not capable of taking advantage of this. With great defensive players, he is an asset. Without those great players, he is a liability.
He holds philosophies that do not work but he has a massive ego so he will not acknowledge it.
One of the girls once put money in a claw machine and got a doll out of it. For YEARS, whenever she went past one of those machines she insisted she could get another. She was convinced that it worked once and so it could work again. His obsession with splash plays has killed us. But worse, this tendency to try to hit home runs (while it worked with some draft picks) is the same disease that brought in Harvin to kill the team or Graham to destroy the run game which was working.
His obsession with Home Runs is the root of the problem and cannot be solved without removing him.
He is old and his philosophies are tired and outdated. More significantly, he cannot adapt. We know his fingers are on FO moves, and so a large part of this roster he cannot work with is likely his doing. The irony is that if we did not drive off all those players that were 'getting paid too much' and disagreeing with him (because he is now near incompetent) - we would still be competitive. (Ask SF how Sherman is doing now)
He figured out how to use players with different body types than the standard metrics in different ways. That got us that talent much cheaper. And he is fantastic at developing talent he has. But if he cannot hit on those players he cannot compete.
He is a master strategist, but one of the worst game-day coaches in the league.
He is a tremendous evaluator of talent and developer but poor to average evaluator of assistant coaches.
He is a tremendous defensive mind but one of the worst offensive minds in the league.
He does not put enough credence into failure, both learning from it and avoiding it.
Will consistently believe that he can bring in people that have failed elsewhere and make it work for him. It worked once, wonderfully, with Lynch. The rest were steaming disasters.
He is constantly scheming for little advantages in one direction, that lead to huge gaping holes in other directions.
If he does not have a materially better roster than his opposition, his teams will struggle over the long term. And for us, without a great defense to cover his flaws on offense, he is a net liability.