When you assemble an expensive roster that analysts and executives alike largely agree is studded with legitimate talent, you can’t fail. If you do fail, as teams like the Falcons and Browns have done in disappointing 2019 seasons, the blame is always going to fall squarely on the head coach.
That’s what’s happening to Dan Quinn, who is very much on the hot seat as I write this. Quinn is a good man and, by all accounts, a coach beloved by his players, who have fiercely stood by him this week as calls for a coaching change have intensified.