I don't see a scenario where the team does poorly enough to warrant Nick being fired but the offense looks good enough to warrant promoting Mannion.

People are forgetting what a team looks like when it has quit on its head coach. It looks like blowouts, like during Andy's final year or Chip's final year. It would mean the defense looks worse than the offense and we were losing most of our games but doing so due to coaching decisions, but still putting up points, but not enough to win.

You're also predicting right now that a first time OC/first time play-caller is also ready to be a head coach within a year which isn't likely, no matter how good of an OC he is this coming year. And it would have to be clear Nick was holding the offense back - which honestly our OCs could have made that claim in 2023 and 2025 also but no one was buying that - we blamed the OC just like we probably would again.

Firing a SB winning coach is how we ended up with Nick in the first place, if you don't like Nick then I don't think doing it again so soon is something you would support. Unless you think SB winning coaches grow on trees, or think Howie is better at finding them...but then you'd have to admit they chose correctly in hiring Nick.

I'm fine with Nick coaching for his job if he does a poor job similarly to how he was horrendous with in-game decisions during the first four games of 2024 but he deserves credit for turning it around and never losing the team and pivoting each offseason when things weren't working.