I'll listen to the argument that maybe we should have had an AD in place sooner. I'm sure in hindsight knowing Leach was going to pass, Keenum wishes he would have moved more quickly on an AD as well, but clearly what happened was unexpected.
So without an AD and our should-be HOF coach having just died, what decent coach would have taken our job? And how many players would we have kept? It obviously didn't work with Arnett, but at least we pulled the rip cord quickly. Hire a bad coach because that's all that would take our job, and then we're locked in for multiple years.
The point is the main driver of the mess we're in was the unprecedented death of the head coach during the season, and the timing of it made worse by not having an AD in place.
