How to fix things?
Prepare the team for the next game as well as the logistics involved with an overseas game.
Firing people and/or cutting or trading away players after WEEK 3
does not build a good NFL franchise. The season will turn around, but it has to start with the next game.
Quote:How to fix things?
Prepare the team for the next game as well as the logistics involved with an overseas game.
Firing people and/or cutting or trading away players after WEEK 3
does not build a good NFL franchise. The season will turn around, but it has to start with the next game.
We can agree to disagree.
Quote:If you were appointed GM today, how would you change things? Who would you fire? Who would you promote? What deals would you make? What positions/players would you target in free agency and the draft?
1. First off, I fire Gus Bradley, Greg Olsen and Todd Walsh. I then promote Monte Kiffin to interim head coach, Jerry Sullivan to Offensive Coordinator and Robert Saleh to Defensive Coordinator. I drop the 4-3 hybrid scheme and go to a straight 4-3 for the rest of the season and see how things play out. If we turn things around, I hire Kiffin to be the head coach, if not I search for a new staff with an emphasis on someone who can bring in a strong QB coach who is known for developing young signal callers. I would preferably move to a 3-4 scheme, but that isn't set in stone. I just think we're best set up to succeed as a 3-4 defense.
2. I cut Cyprien and Gratz, Henne and Joeckel. I then I try to swing a deal. I offer Marqise Lee, T.J. Yeldon and a 3rd round pick to the Dallas Cowboys for La'el Collins, Alfred Morris and a 7th round pick. I will up the offer to a 2nd rounder, if they don't bite, but that is where I draw the line. If they take the offer, I immediately install Collins at LT and move Beachum to LG. Alfred Morris would then split carries with Ivory.
3. At the end of the season, I re-sign Prince Amukamura and I target Safeties Eric Berry and Micah Hyde in free agency. I make sure one of them would be a Jaguar. I then look at adding a CB. I target Trumain Johnson, Stephon Gilmore or Logan Ryan.
4. In the draft, I focus on building depth and competition on the O-Line. I look at players like Centers: Kyle Fuller of Baylor or Dan Voltz of Wisconsin. I look at OG's like Pat Elfein of Ohio State, Dan Feeney of Indiana and Nico Siragusa of San Diego State and OT prospects like Julien Davenport of Bucknell and K.C. McDermott of Miami. I also look to add a young running back in the middle rounds like Sony Michel of Georgia, Royce Freeman of Oregon and Jalen Hurd of Tennessee.
5. I look to play a much more aggressive style of offense with an emphasis on pass protection and utilizing the RB's as receivers out of the backfield. We have arguably, the best trio of WR's in the NFL with Robinson, Hurns and Greene. We need to make opposing defenses fear our passing attack.
This is only the things I can think of off the top of my head, but I wonder what you guys would do.
I would stop applying Madden logic to real life, for starters.
Quote:How to fix things?
Prepare the team for the next game as well as the logistics involved with an overseas game.
Firing people and/or cutting or trading away players after WEEK 3
does not build a good NFL franchise. The season will turn around, but it has to start with the next game.
Someone is definitely living up to their username. I can dig it.
I have absolutely no faith in this coaching staff to pull off the nigh improbable but stranger things have happened, I reckon.
Quote:I would stop applying Madden logic to real life, for starters.
Quite a few need to do this.
Quote:Someone is definitely living up to their username. I can dig it.
I have absolutely no faith in this coaching staff to pull off the nigh improbable but stranger things have happened, I reckon.
It's week 3 going into week 4. People need to get it through their heads that the Jaguars are not going to win every week. There is plenty of time to turn the season around and the schedule looks better for us in the second quarter of the season. We win at least 3 out of 4 of those games, there will be the "playoff" talk around here.
Yes the start of the season really stinks, but I'm willing to bet that it gets turned around rather quickly.
It all has to start with a win this coming weekend. Undefeated teams are going to drop a game and some teams are going to win games that they
should win (Jaguars, Saints).
Fire Gus and Wash first and foremost.
Marrone to interim HC
Hire a new coach in January.
Bam! Problem solved.
Quote:I would stop applying Madden logic to real life, for starters.
You guys are just too afraid to take any risk. Apparently you're satisfied with how things are now. Same players, same philosophy, same schemes. That's why we're in this rut to begin with. Sometimes you have to make wholesale changes to improve.
Quote:1. First off, I fire Gus Bradley, Greg Olsen and Todd Walsh. I then promote Monte Kiffin to interim head coach, Jerry Sullivan to Offensive Coordinator and Robert Saleh to Defensive Coordinator. I drop the 4-3 hybrid scheme and go to a straight 4-3 for the rest of the season and see how things play out. If we turn things around, I hire Kiffin to be the head coach, if not I search for a new staff with an emphasis on someone who can bring in a strong QB coach who is known for developing young signal callers. I would preferably move to a 3-4 scheme, but that isn't set in stone. I just think we're best set up to succeed as a 3-4 defense.
Wow, you'd hire an ancient coach who hangs his hat on the antiquated Tampa 2. Real forward thinking here.
2. I cut Cyprien and Gratz, Henne and Joeckel. I then I try to swing a deal. I offer Marqise Lee, T.J. Yeldon and a 3rd round pick to the Dallas Cowboys for La'el Collins, Alfred Morris and a 7th round pick. I will up the offer to a 2nd rounder, if they don't bite, but that is where I draw the line. If they take the offer, I immediately install Collins at LT and move Beachum to LG. Alfred Morris would then split carries with Ivory.
Joeckel hasn't been bad at left guard this year. If you cut him, you might lose a compensatory pick.
4. In the draft, I focus on building depth and competition on the O-Line. I look at players like Centers: Kyle Fuller of Baylor or Dan Voltz of Wisconsin. I look at OG's like Pat Elfein of Ohio State, Dan Feeney of Indiana and Nico Siragusa of San Diego State and OT prospects like Julien Davenport of Bucknell and K.C. McDermott of Miami. I also look to add a young running back in the middle rounds like Sony Michel of Georgia, Royce Freeman of Oregon and Jalen Hurd of Tennessee.
This is about the only area that has merit.
Quote:You guys are just too afraid to take any risk. Apparently you're satisfied with how things are now. Same players, same philosophy, same schemes. That's why we're in this rut to begin with. Sometimes you have to make wholesale changes to improve.
Except that your wholesale changes are straight out of a Madden-inspired fantasy land.
The way I'd approach it is for next season is:
A)Hire a head coach who has led an NFL team before. There's no time for someone to learn on the fly this time so they need to have been a head coach before. The new head coach needs to know that he has 2 years to get it done. Year 1= In the playoff hunt and looking like a real team Year 2= Playoffs or fired.
B) The culture has to change and that's all on the new staff who come in. Its a noble endeavor to want to help the players grow as men and in a comfortable environment but that does not get wins. The bottom line should be that losing is not acceptable and if you are not doing everything in your power as a player or a coach to win then you are held accountable for your actions. The players will respect you if you get wins and treat them like men.
C) Coordinators should be flexible to alternate playstyle when needed. On defense that means the ability to mix up different coverages and blitz packages to keep a QB guessing. The best defenses are simple for players to understand and execute yet tough for the opposing QB to decipher. You have to show them different looks and keep them guessing with a combo of man, zone and blitzs that can come from anywhere. The key here should be playing players to their strengths i.e a slow LBer should never cover a #3 WR in man coverage
On offense with the players we have it should be pretty easy for any competent mind to make a good offense.
1) Fix the line, need at least 3 new additions to it.
2) Only run what the offense is actually capable of. For instance if the interior run blocking is poor then slow developing handsoffs ain't going to work. You may need to simplify things and bring a FB into to run 4 yards.
3) Personally I'd rather lose by being too aggressive than lose by playing too conservatively. Think being aggressive shows you have faith in the players and it also tells your opponent that you are going to play how your team wants to play.
With the players we have downfield passing is what works. Tell Blake to sort out his mechanics or his future here is in jeopardy.
That's pretty much it. Everything I said is achievable and doesn't take superhuman effort or brain power. Mostly just common sense.