Quote:Regarding predictions of Green Bay wilting in the September Florida heat, long time fans may remember how hot the Jaguars first training camp was, in Wisconsin.
The heat and humidity is an advantage, period. That said it's not enough of an advantage to allow the Jaguars to beat a better more motivated team. If the Jaguars are going to win they're going to have to be good enough to make the heat an issue. If the Jaguars do their typical act under Bradley and come out and try to run the ball into ten man fronts to "establish the run" and such then they're likely to get their [BLEEP] handed to them.
Now that we have a bonafide threat of a passing attack, I wouldn't worry about that...
Quote:The heat and humidity is an advantage, period. That said it's not enough of an advantage to allow the Jaguars to beat a better more motivated team. If the Jaguars are going to win they're going to have to be good enough to make the heat an issue. If the Jaguars do their typical act under Bradley and come out and try to run the ball into ten man fronts to "establish the run" and such then they're likely to get their [BAD WORD REMOVED] handed to them.
I don't know what team you were watching because Bradley's offense had zero hesitation throwing the ball against 10 man fronts last year.
Quote:I don't know what team you were watching because Bradley's offense had zero hesitation throwing the ball against 10 man fronts last year.
"GERHART GOES FOR ZERO ON FIRST DOWN! ZERO ON SECOND DOWN! ZERO ON THIRD DOWN!"
"Maybe they'll try a pass here, Frank?"
"GERHART GETS STUFFED! The Jaguars turn it over on downs."
Seldom...that was a series from the Buffalo one yard line.
An average team SHOULD make one yard on four runs under those circumstances.
Don't portray that as if it was first and ten from the Jaguars own 40.
Quote:Seldom...that was a series from the Buffalo one yard line.
An average team SHOULD make one yard on four runs under those circumstances.
Don't portray that as if it was first and ten from the Jaguars own 40.
It was misguided and simply an example of the team doing things very foolishly. As the season wore on I thought they let Blake throw it around more, which is good.
So it's foolish to expect a team with sufficient OL talent to be able to gain one yard rushing on 4 tries?
Quote:"GERHART GOES FOR ZERO ON FIRST DOWN! ZERO ON SECOND DOWN! ZERO ON THIRD DOWN!"
"Maybe they'll try a pass here, Frank?"
"GERHART GETS STUFFED! The Jaguars turn it over on downs."
That's a player the caliber of Gerhart running behind our caliber of line that got those results.
Thanks for proving my point once again.
Add Linder and Ivory to that situation and we would be talking about a touchdown.
Quote:So it's foolish to expect a team with sufficient OL talent to be able to gain one yard rushing on 4 tries?
I think it's foolish to go against your team's greatest strength four times in a row when it hasn't worked multiple times already. The Jaguars finally found a franchise level QB and have an elite TD making WR. It's only logical to hand it to slowby four times in a row, right?
So are rushes in short yardage situations innately flawed strategy, or is there a reason they weren't always successful for the Jaguars, irrespective of whether that's your team's strength or not?
I mean, it isn't as if Bortles has excelled at throwing the fade, which is another passing strategy in the red zone.
Quote:So are rushes in short yardage situations innately flawed strategy, or is there a reason they weren't always successful for the Jaguars, irrespective of whether that's your team's strength or not?
I mean, it isn't as if Bortles has excelled at throwing the fade, which is another passing strategy in the red zone.
If I recall correctly Bortles had somewhere around 25 red zone TDs on the season, the Jaguars had something like one red zone rushing TD, so I guess that fade pass he doesn't throw well didn't really matter that much. They also did poorly in short yardage rushing all around. I don't know if that's because it's a flawed strategy, but it seems like a flawed strategy when you're halfway through the season, practically, know a guy isn't getting it done very well in short yardage, but go ahead and hand it two him to get stuffed four times in a row while your franchise passer throws his hands up in disgust.
Quote:If I recall correctly Bortles had somewhere around 25 red zone TDs on the season, the Jaguars had something like one red zone rushing TD, so I guess that fade pass he doesn't throw well didn't really matter that much. They also did poorly in short yardage rushing all around. I don't know if that's because it's a flawed strategy, but it seems like a flawed strategy when you're halfway through the season, practically, know a guy isn't getting it done very well in short yardage, but go ahead and hand it two him to get stuffed four times in a row while your franchise passer throws his hands up in disgust.
Right. Flawed strategy. Just another excuse for the coaching staff having to deal with sub par talent.
That's why Caldwell spent big bucks on Ivory in free agency because of flawed strategy.
Quote:Right. Flawed strategy. Just another excuse for the coaching staff having to deal with sub par talent.
That's why Caldwell spent big bucks on Ivory in free agency because of flawed strategy.
Right, because running it four times in a row is the only possibility. Obviously the real problem is that the Jaguars aren't the All-Madden team, so that no matter what play gets called it's going to work.
Quote:Right, because running it four times in a row is the only possibility. Obviously the real problem is that the Jaguars aren't the All-Madden team, so that no matter what play gets called it's going to work.
There is no guarantee that throwing the ball gets a TD.
Like I said before, with Ivory and Linder in that lineup, we would be discussing an easy TD.
We were at the goal line. No special strategy or deception should be needed in that situation nor an All-Madden team. It just demonstrates the lack of talent the coaches were dealing with.
Predator...
Exactly right.
A team with sufficient talent at OL and RB should have no problems punching it in from the one on the ground, given four downs.
Sometimes teams can get too cute down at the goal line (see: Coughlin, Tom, in both Jaguars' AFC Championship games)
Quote:There is no guarantee that throwing the ball gets a TD.
Like I said before, with Ivory and Linder in that lineup, we would be discussing an easy TD.
We were at the goal line. No special strategy or deception should be needed in that situation nor an All-Madden team. It just demonstrates the lack of talent the coaches were dealing with.
Or maybe it demonstrates that every team can't be better than every team they face in every matchup and sometimes the coach has to actually put his team into position to win.
Quote:Predator...
Exactly right.
A team with sufficient talent at OL and RB should have no problems punching it in from the one on the ground, given four downs.
Sometimes teams can get too cute down at the goal line (see: Coughlin, Tom, in both Jaguars' AFC Championship games)
Just think the prior superbowl too.
Seldom...
But the team won the game.
The team led for the overwhelming majority of the game. Turnovers committed by passing the ball contributed to Buffalo taking the lead.
Seems to me Bradley put them in position to win the game.
Quote:Or maybe it demonstrates that every team can't be better than every team they face in every matchup and sometimes the coach has to actually put his team into position to win.
A power run play at the goal line is about the best match up and the best odds of scoring that a coach could possibly give his team. If the players can't execute that then that's on the players.