That’s revisionist history. Reich was pretty well respected in the league and had the same win% in Indy as Rivera did here despite crappy QB play, and a bad owner/GM situation.
I’m not saying he was a good hire. Not by a long shot, but he was considered a safe hire at the time. Yeah, I think he realized that Tepper was just as bad, if not worse than Isray and he seemed to completely check out, but “guaranteed to fail” he was not.