Extenuating circumstances matter a lot, I wouldn't just can him short of truly underachieving/losing the team.
Booze is right that this team is beginning to smell itself. Schotty's right in the middle of it talking about how talented the roster is. The 2008 team was talented, shit before the season people thought it was loaded.
Now that was a colossal coaching fuck up.
I remember that 1998 Washington team that signed Dana Stubblefield and Dan Wilkinson and they already had Michael Westbrook, Chris Dishman and some other star names and you should have seen their fans fellating themselves over how amazing their team was going to be. They finished 6-10 and I laughed at them the whole season. They just hadn't formed a team at any level.
Same thing happened in 2000 when they added Deion Sanders to the mix. Good lord their fans were rimming each other.
8-8.
But sometimes you need time for things to gel, and with the NFC super-competitive, all the wildcards could easily come from the West and North.