I hope we don't get bogged down in this is impossible to fix, because that would be impossible to fix.
You have problems in front of you, are you willing to solve them. You do the immediate the best you can, move on to the next and so on.
1. DC. That is the most immediate problem.
2. QB.
3. DBs and LBs
4. Keeping the OC
If you solve all those, to the best of your ability, does that mean we win more games next year? Absolutely not. Cam Ward 2.0 is not walking through those doors. But to D$ point, you don't need to have Cam 2.0 to improve on what we did here, because the D caused us to NEED Cam Ward.
I'm not putting rosey sunshine here, I don't think we get 10 wins next year, but I think we can improve on our position in we get better at where we are horrible at and make improvements we can build on.
2024 had the real opportunity to be special that doesn't come around often, but we blew it. We need to move past that and let it go. Getting rid of Mario would be stupid, as it would be 4 steps back instead of 2. But Mario has to take steps forward.