I get we are upset with the team' performance and with Gase, but I dont know how much blame Chris deserves and how happy we should be to have Woody back.
This is Chris' first time working through this. He clearly made a mistake with Gase, but hes done two admirable things since then.
1. He fired Mcagnan. Most owners including Woody would not have fired Duff when he did. They would have fired him at the end of this season. It takes balls to admit you made a mistake after you made a $100MM investment. Should he have seen this earlier, maybe. But I for one am happy that our owner will make decisions to change things as soon as he realizes he was wrong and something needs to be done. No reason to stew in your own excrement.
2. He hired Douglas. FWIW the media praises this decision, and we probably wouldn't have gotten joe if we didnt fire Duff abruptly after the draft.
I would also put money on Chris allowing a reorg of the working structure (coach reports to gm) over Woody. Woody makes the same mistakes over and over again, Chris atleast seems to learn from those mistakes.
Things have been shitty over the past 3 months, but I think I still prefer chris to woody. I'd like to see how he progresses through this as he learns.
Making a mistake is fine him being unable to admit it and learn from it is the real problem.
And he didn't hire Douglas. He thought Gase was some brilliant move and savior of the franchise probably getting manipulated by Peyton Mannings charm and endorsement, then put the faith of his franchise in this snake oil salesman who told Chris Johnson to fire Mac and hire Douglas.
So in summary Chris Johnson
Has never had a real job
Is a naieve freaking idiot
Is a stubborn crybaby freak who can't handle criticism or admit he's wrong l
Bent over and calls Gase daddy
People slobbed on his gnob for being progressive and supporting the football players during the kneeling thing. Not because of anything related to football.
If the dude can make tough decisions in the offseason, and realize that having a leadership structure where a guy who has never had a job let alone knows nothing about football overrules the GM in football related decisions is a stupid freaking thing. Then maybe I'd start to respect him.
Till then he's excrement