Firing a coach to avoid hard Knocks is the equivalent of not improving the team in the offseason to hope for comp picks. Bears should fire Flus but not because of hard knocks.
Flus is about fundamentally sound mistake free football. His team is not.
Flus as a head coach would prefer for both of his coordinators to coordinate their side of the ball. DC looked incompetent until he was fired for HR reasons. OC looks incompetent. If one side of the ball looked competent and the team was disciplined, I would be all for letting Flus hire one new coordinator.
Flus is bad at interviewing coaches. Two of the coaches he hired has been let go for HR reasons. Do you want him hiring two more coordinators this offseason? I don’t.
We aren’t seeing Fields progress as much as we’d like. Fields inability to raise the talent around him makes it unlikely the GM that didn’t draft him will want to build a team around a QB with a top 10 salary. As we will likely have a new QB next year, the main reason to fire Flus is to not start the next top 11 draft pick with a lame duck HC that will be fired after one season and have to learn a new system their sophomore year.
If Bears draft a QB in April it is not because Justin Fields is the problem.