You have gone off the deep end with this.
Actually, it's quite the opposite.
If he had any ounce of coaching ability we would have won at least 1 game out of the 7.
Oh, so if we had won 1 out of 7, we aren't sitting here having this conversation? Then he'd have coaching ability?
I mean odds are that with any amount of coaching ability he could have pulled one win, right?
That is a dumb way to look at it. I'm not going to sit here and celebrate him as a genius if he can Mr Wizard us into a 2-5 record with Romo out instead of 0-7. To me, that means jack and shit, because for the vast majority of the time he will be coaching, he will be doing so with a starting caliber QB that he planned to have around.
Judging him based on his adjust-gameplan-on-the-fly abilities is not the same as judging his coaching abilities as a whole. And since being without your starting QB happens once every like, 6 seasons, and would derail almost every team to something like a 2-5 record, I'm not going to go flying off the deep end that we only went 0-7.
As far as last year's team didn't Wade win 13 games one season? He is taken off of playcalling duties. Told to walk around and clap. We finally start running the ball and win 12 games. Yeah. He had a lot to do with that.
Yes, he did have a substantial amount to do with that. And the fact that you refuse to give him any credit shows how off the deep end you are.
If you want to have a rational conversation about this subject, I'm totally willing, and we can start with the fact that I'd agree with you he hasn't done an acceptable job of coaching this team this season, Romo or no. There are far too many things wrong that would still be going wrong even if Romo were here for us to be on the same level as last year. I see regression and that is a valid point.
But he deserves one more chance to get it right after winning the division last year, and if you think most coaches who just came off their first division crown wouldn't get that chance, you are delusional.
The Romo injury is a further legitimate excuse for him.
The "he went 0-7 instead of 1-6 or 2-5" is just crackpot silly.
Lets leave it at the obvious... it doesn't look like we would have taken a step forward this year with Romo healthy, and very possibly would have taken a step back. Next year that will have to be reversed, or it IS a serious indictment of his actual head coaching abilities... inability to get his (fully healthy) team moving in the right direction.
You don't want to give him that chance simply because you don't like him, but the vast majority of owners who liked a coach enough to give him a five year extension last year is never going to run their coach off for losing his starting QB the very next year. If you think otherwise you're the one not being rational.