Nolan finally out, but will it help?

ESPN.com reported today that "barring a dramatic change of course" Mike Nolan will be fired as the San Francisco 49ers' head coach after the team's game with Seattle this Sunday. Well Niner brass, what exactly would a dramatic change of course be? Say Nolan's team goes out and destroys the Seachickens - like they probably will do. What happens then? The guy is the face and stable force of the organization right now. He took over the team after you essentially got rid of all of its talent and drafted an over hyped quarterback. Seven wins out of a team like that is an accomplishment. You let Jeff Garcia go because TO wouldn't shut up, then let TO go; you dropped Julian Peterson because you didn't want to pay him; You disassembled the offensive line and the defense; then, in a desperate attempt at appealing to the fans who had been griping for a decade about how you don't want to spend money, you overpaid for a corner and a backup quarterback who played three good games (two of them, really). The decisions you left up to Nolan haven't been bad. He drafted Patrick Willis, Joe Staley and Manny Lawson; he hired Mike Singletary, Mike Martz and developed Frank Gore into an elite NFL running back. He developed the defense into one that can compete, after years of being a laughing stock. It's kinda hard to argue that Nolan is a bad coach. What head coach can win games in the NFL without a capable quarterback? You can have all of the overpaid talent in the world, but if you don't have a field general, you can't win as a head coach. He has gotten every bit out of his talent and supported himself with coaches who do the same. Ironic that one of those coaches might unseat him.
-Alex