And those were all bad converging drivers at the exact wrong times. Just wrongwrongwrong timing.
Who gives a **** about............"hey this is what got us here".......... you have to adjust and have awareness in the moment, the situation, and make decisions accordingly.
There is NOBODY that as those events unfolded thought those decisions/playcalls were a good idea. Literally everyone watching that happen was saying to themselves, or out loud, "wtf is he doing here?"
I wouldn't fire him for it, he deserves some leniency considering what he has done with that team.
But if he ever does the same thing again I probably would. Even if it was week four against a non division opponent. Because if you do this kind of thing more than once I can't trust you in another big situation.
He took away a trip to the Super Bowl from a ballclub that actually needed exactly that to revitalize itself.
After that you get no more mulligans. I'm wiring money to Bill Belichick and going forward.