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1Cut kearse and lane.
2.Sign whitworth and TJ lang, draft some safeties and corners.
3.Fire bevell and cable
4.Win SB
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I don't invest my life much into the business side, but from what i understand cutting Lane would be incredibly costly and rather painful. The deal is done and he's ours basically. At a minimum hopefully he can make the jump next year to serviceable. Kearse ain't going anywhere in 17 either.
It's rare for a division champion with a playoff win to then go and fire coordinators also. Bottom line is if we keep continuity and improve some areas to keep up with the division, we're a LOCK for the division next season.
I don't like Bevell either but I just really hope he takes the off season to analyze his weaknesses. We certainly had an ineffective bubble screen yesterday that put us behind the chains, and our red zone offense is our Achilles heel. To me nothing screams scheme problem like a team that moves the ball and fails in the red zone. Bevell needs to completely reinvent his philosophy from inside the twenty.
If he fixes the RZ issues, stops handing off to the full back on third/fourth and short, and gets Russ moving early and often, I'm at peace with the fact that Pete is not firing him. That's just plain old reality after 49, if he wasn't canned then, he's for Damn sure not after a successful season with holes in the boat elsewhere.