A lot of people fail to see the bigger picture.
We get a win over a lousy team, and suddenly things look a lot better to people.
But the proof is in the pudding: When Kubiak faces a divisional rival, he is getting out-coached by a mile. This division's coaches have been onto Kubiak over the past 3 years, meaning he hasn't evolved as a coach.
I guess one day we're all going to wake up and this team will have magically found a way to radically reverse it's consistently charted course it's on?
The first two years, everyone wonders if a pattern continues (Could it be, we ask ourselves, that the players just are not comfortable in the system yet?).
After another two years, when the pattern continues in the same freaking fashion as the previous two years, most people reach a point where they have to confront the possibility that the coach is/isn't doing some things that is holding the team back.
At this point, as it was with the David Carr extended season (about half-way through that season), it is purely delusional for anyone to try and convince themselves that this ship's captain is going to alter his pattern.
He's trying to save his job, rather than having the mentality of a coach who is hell-bent on winning a title. That's two VERRRRY different mindsets. One mindset says "I'm going to dismantle my opponent. They won't know what hit them." The other mindset says "We're going to do what we do. And take as little chances as possible."
It's depressing to sit here and be able to remember the David Carr extended season, yet so many people don't see the direct correlation to the head coach situation we have right now.