Then why not stick with Wade until this sure fire, can't miss, yee-haw, arse kicking HC came along? Atleast then we could have had some decent draft picks.
Because ANYONE was an upgrade from 1-7 Wade. He was shit. He leads every team he inherits into the trash can. He always makes a team worse than when he takes it over. He's done it at 4 HC stops now, it was beyond proven that Wade was shit when that number was 3.
Garrett did represent an upgrade as we saw when he took over.
Cue argument: "But anyone could have done that!!!" Yes, lots of coaches could have. It's why I just said "ANYONE was an upgrade from 1-7 Wade."
But now that we have one of those "anyones" it is no longer the truth that "anyone" is an upgrade. Now we need someone who is clearly an upgrade. Not so easy when you are replacing someone from the vast number of in-the-middle-tier coaches. It is compounded by the fact that a guy who might have success elsewhere will not have success here because of Jerry, so unless we want to continue the merry go round, it should be a franchise leader HC.
If there isn't one available right now (and currently I don't see one), we should not be in a hurry to punitively fire Garrett because his presence as HC here 3.5 years after this season allows us to fire him at any time we see an upgrade. If we hire a Mike McCoy or something, we likely get another 8-8 coach who is now not fireable for a couple years.
We should have gone after Andy Reid in the offseason but didn't. Sooner rather than later another guy like him will be available.