In mild defense of the Avery pick, he often looked like the best receiver on the field. It’s just that Bulger hasn’t got the zip on the ball, or the timing with the receiver, to catch up to him yet. And, of course, he has been severely hobbled in playing time over the first two weeks, where Eddie Royal and DeSean Jackson were both given more playing time than was expected because of injuries to their teams’ starting receivers.

But yeah, both of those guys have been revelations. They’ve done everything you could ask with the playing time that’s been given them. Hopefully Avery feels the need to outwork the rest of his own sorry team to reach the bar that Jackson and Royal have set.

I hope you’re right. I hope that the decision to fire has already been made, and that it will cast a wide net when it is released. And I’d really like to see action no later than the start of the Bye.

But an important consideration remains for Rosenbloom – who to hire? If you’re serious about removing all the rot from the top of this organization, you create that many more decisions on who should be brought in to help restore things. So where I’d actually like to see everyone fired yesterday, I wonder what kind of management team can be brought together in such a short period of time?

Exacerbating this situation is the fact that Rosenbloom is a newbie to NFL ownership, and presumably doesn’t have deep contacts among the ranks of NFL and college coaches. I think the ideal situation would be to enlist Marshall Faulk and Dick Vermeil as a sort of “discovery team,” after you’ve cleaned house, to help Rosenbloom find potential diamonds within the shitpile, and identify potential candidates to coach and manage the team. Most importantly, Faulk and Vermeil have (I believe) a compatible philosophy on what it takes to build a winner. They can change the mindset of the team from the inside out, and they should have enough respect in reserve within the NFL to help bring some respectability and integrity back to the organization.

Plus, assuming that Martz stays out in San Francisco and Holmgren sticks around Seattle even after his ‘sabbatical,’ there are intriguing divisional rivalries for Vermeil and Faulk to get engaged in. Gotta bring that competitive spirit back!