This is a major flip flop move right here. He promised the kid he wouldn't have to look over his shoulder and 7 games later he goes back on his word. He shouldn't have ever made that promise at all. If I'm a player I don't know If I can be fully behind a coach who doesn't keep his word.
Putting Hill in there this late doesn't save this season. It's already lost so what does this accomplish a few extra wins in a best case scenario? This has job preservation written all over it and has little to do with what is best for the team IMO. Hill can't save the season and he has Zero upside for the future.
At this point I'm hoping Fisher gets the same treatment from Kroenke and has his time unexpectedly cut short.
So, by your own admission, the season is "already lost". Well, why is that? You seem to think that because Fisher gave Davis the keys to the car, once he wrecked it, (season is lost--- your words).....he should just let him ride it out with no regard for the rest of the team? Because AT THE TIME, he said Davis wouldn't have "to look over his shoulder" to give him the opportunity to just go play and see if he could develop....... Now that he has not shown the ability to develop, and refrain from making the same mistakes over and over again, you prefer Fisher just let the season go?
I see many who seem to think this is about NEXT YEAR, and needing to somehow find out what they have in Davis. I think that has been clearly defined, and yes, it didn't take 7 games to determine that. It seems to me, to be more a case of him exposing the reasons why he got cut each of the past two seasons, and why he was a week away from it happening again, had it not been for Bradford's injury.
Contrary to what you seem to think, THIS SEASON still has 7 games remaining. And I have a pretty good feeling that everyone in the locker room, and coaches offices are going to do whatever it takes to go out and win as many as they can. And this move has more to do with that, than going back on his word. The tell tale sign for me, is you don't hear one word coming from Davis, or any other player that this is an issue.