I had high hopes for Pettine
Part of my ongoing frustration with this team is I knew the guy was a freaking bum in over his head since the day he signed.
He was the defensive version of Pat Shurmur, a pedestrian coordinator that no other team was even interviewing for head coach. He wasn't on any other team's radar for good reason. Look at what the Bills defense turned into once he got the hell out of town.
The fact that he was willing to take this job knowing (at the time) he would be working for Joe Banner told me all I needed to know about Pettine. He was probably as shocked as the rest of us that any team was even calling, and he would have said yes to anything at that point.
It has bled over into his hiring of coordinators as well. Other than Shanahan, he has surrounded himself with other guys not qualified for their jobs that other teams had no interest in.
He accepts failure and quite frankly encourages it. Jim O'Neil wouldn't still have a job if Pettine believed in any semblance of real accountability.
He road his poppies name to his first jobs, and then Rex Ryan's play calls to his Buffalo job, and then was the only guy willing to work for Joe Banner.
I am an angry Browns fan. If I can tell the guy is a bum, how the hell can't the front office who is getting paid millions of dollars a year? Then again, I think they are bums as well so it is not a surprise that in this case failure seems to attract more failure.
Bring me a modern offensive mind with a real plan and I will be the happiest Browns fan in the world. No more of these guys unqualified for their jobs trying to play football like it's still the 1980's though. I can speak for Browns fans everywhere when I say we have all had it. It's all a giant waste of everyone's time.
Jimmy should just fire all of them now and stop delaying the inevitable. We all know how this is going to end, and the sooner we put a stop to it is the sooner we can get on the task of building a viable NFL contender. Making us suffer through another couple of 5-7 win seasons because you're embarrassed you screwed it up again on the hire is just rubbing salt in the wounds of all of us.