Firing Petke seems odd, but then again if you know you like Marsch and you know you're going to take the roster in a new direction post-Henry, there's no real benefit to taking a 'wait + see' on Petke. Act as soon as you know what your real decision is.

Not that different than what happens in Portland with Spencer's firing, which by the way looks very shrewd by management in hindsight, bit yeah the fan base + FO *still* have scars from the interim period where the team readjusted to the new regime.