It’s not about turning the season around. The season is fucked. It’s about wiping the slate clean and setting expectations, as well as getting a jump on the open head coaching market. Additionally, why have a walking dead coach in your building, when he knows he has Damocles’s sword hanging over his head? Why would you trust that guy with any decisions at all? Look at what happened with Lovie Smith and Houston, for example.

And there has to be a player trust component to this as well. I can’t imagine that any of their players are in a good frame of mind with this lameass walking around, in command of the team. You’re likely to lose your few good players this way, if you haven’t lost them already.