Monday afternoon, in his press conference discussing the decision to fire head coach Mike McCarthy, team president Mark Murphy mentioned an apt corollary. “I felt change was needed, and Mike’s tenure had run its course,” Murphy said. “We needed a new voice, and it happens in our league. I look at the situation a couple years ago with Andy Reid in Philadelphia.”
After 14 seasons leading the Eagles, Reid was let go at the end of the 2012 season. The Eagles’ next coach, Chip Kelly, didn’t stick, but five seasons later, under Doug Pederson, they won a Super Bowl.