I think there are 4 more winnable games (MN, ATL, AZ, and GB). Given that it’s always been a rebuild project, I think we keep Poles, Flus, and Fields if we get 7 wins, especially if we look okay in the losses.
The team is on the way up, still playing hard, and I think 3 years is a more reasonable timeline.
Someone said it in another thread. Good coaches don’t lose 14 straight. Eberlose has to go.
Good Coaches win division games (more than one even!). Good coaches string (at least) two wins together.
I don’t particularly care for Flus but even a mediocre coach can be very successful if the team is just built the right way.
“Great” coaches can do the business with a mediocre roster but there are not many out there.
Is it possible that Flus is bad by design?
You’re rebuilding so you hire a 101-level teacher to re-establish the basics, bomb a few seasons for draft picks, re-stock young dudes, and trade for a few culture guys. Build your core until you lose they locker room and then go for the innovative coach when your team is ready.
Didn’t the Cubs do this same thing with Rick Renteria?
The Bears themselves did this with John Fox. After the shitshow that was the end of the Trestman era the Bears hired John Fox who was clearly already washed up but who could maintain a locker room. They reset the culture and tried to strike big with Nagy. It would’ve worked but Mitch didn’t develop and that was the end of the Pace era.
What about good quarterbacks