Quote: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.
They won the game. I'm not sure I'd say it was about Bradley doing something significant, though, considering the Jaguars let the Bills come back from multiple TDs down and needed Bortles to have a game winning drive to clinch it. Still if you want to credit it to Gus that's your prerogative.
Quote: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.
So you're a "Maddenist"? You think the guys on the field are just like blips on a screen and whatever the coach calls should work regardless of the realities of the game at hand? Vic would have loved your take.
Predator...
I recall in that series a play where either Beadles or Joeckel got absolutely abused, keeping Gerhart from going anywhere.
Sometimes it is execution.
Running the ball into a goal line defense is not a bad strategy.
Seldom...
Maddenists?
Not in this instance. As Predator observed earlier, there's no guarantee a pass would have worked under those circumstances, either.
Just because a play or series of plays don't work, doesn't mean it was a coaching failure.
Quote:Seldom...
Maddenists?
Not in this instance. As Predator observed earlier, there's no guarantee a pass would have worked under those circumstances, either.
Just because a play or series of plays don't work, doesn't mean it was a coaching failure.
Like I said, Bortles, Hurns, Robinson, Thomas. I'd trust that two of those four can succeed more often than Gerhart and the offensive line succeed last season. Either way we seem to be done with this discussion, there isn't going to be movement of opinion on this one.
Fair enough, Seldom.
It's not as though you have zero basis for your stance.
But I am curious as to what makes the passing game more trustworthy than the running game if they are on the same team?
Quote:Fair enough, Seldom.
It's not as though you have zero basis for your stance.
But I am curious as to what makes the passing game more trustworthy than the running game if they are on the same team?
I thought I said it earlier, it's about how well a team matches up with an opponent. Exploit any advantages you can, and I don't see the Jaguars rushing game against the Bills defense as a better matchup than the Jaguars passing game against their defense. I understand it's good to run the ball sometimes too just to see if you can keep a defense off balance, but after two tries it was clear Gerhart wasn't getting it done, after the third one they probably should have kicked the field goal, but if they had to go for a TD I'd have rather see them try the more favorable matchup of Robinson/Hurns/Thomas.
Quote:So you're a "Maddenist"? You think the guys on the field are just like blips on a screen and whatever the coach calls should work regardless of the realities of the game at hand? Vic would have loved your take.
No, I am a person who actually played football and know first hand what is expected of the players in those situations.
Quote:No, I am a person who actually played football and know first hand what is expected of the players in those situations.
Incredible non sequitur, bravo.
Quote:Incredible non sequitur, bravo.
You don't even understand what that means.
Quote:You don't even understand what that means.
Your lack of understanding isn't indicative of everyone else possessing a similar lack of understanding.
If you think a direct answer to a question is a non sequitur, then you need to get a new dictionary.
Quote:If you think a direct answer to a question is a non sequitur, then you need to get a new dictionary.
Non sequitur simply means that your conclusion doesn't follow from your premise and you're trying to pass off two unrelated things as being related. The team should be able to get a TD rushing the ball four times, you know this because... you played football.
Quote:Non sequitur simply means that your conclusion doesn't follow from your premise and you're trying to pass off two unrelated things as being related. The team should be able to get a TD rushing the ball four times, you know this because... you played football.
You asked me if I was a maddenist, moron.
You are too stupid to realize what you are writing LOL!
Quote:You asked me if I was a maddenist, moron.
You are too stupid to realize what you are writing LOL!
On the contrary, it seems you can't even follow the conversation. You said that the players should be able to execute that play, I asked if you're a Maddenist, a new term I just coined, with your declaration, and you said you were a football player.
So let me go ahead and connect all of the dots for you, the premise is that since you were a football player you can conclude that you know that the coaches were correct to run Slowby into the backs of the offensive linemen four times in a row.
Unfortunately the two aren't logically connected. Whether you played football or not has nothing to do with whether that was poor play selection for the 2015 Jaguars against the 2015 Bills in that game at that point.
You're welcome.
I just don't understand why it was Gerhart 4 straight times. Yeldon had the hot hand that game and I'm sure he would have slithered into the endzone on one of those carries.
Quote:I just don't understand why it was Gerhart 4 straight times. Yeldon had the hot hand that game and I'm sure he would have slithered into the endzone on one of those carries.
He was the power back and it was a goal line situation. You have to also remember that this was a team still trying to find it's pieces. You sometimes have to force these situations just to find out the capabilities of the players on your roster.
These failures assured that some of these players are no longer on the roster.
You have to remember that the coaches didn't have the luxury of hindsight the way we can look at it now.
Seldom...
so why does the Jaguars passing game match up better against more opponents than the Jaguars running game?
Quote:On the contrary, it seems you can't even follow the conversation. You said that the players should be able to execute that play, I asked if you're a Maddenist, a new term I just coined, with your declaration, and you said you were a football player.
So let me go ahead and connect all of the dots for you, the premise is that since you were a football player you can conclude that you know that the coaches were correct to run Slowby into the backs of the offensive linemen four times in a row.
Unfortunately the two aren't logically connected. Whether you played football or not has nothing to do with whether that was poor play selection for the 2015 Jaguars against the 2015 Bills in that game at that point.
You're welcome.
Man you are slow.
Let me break it down to your simpleton level. I did not learn football by playing Madden. I learned it by actually playing the game. That is the answer to your question if I am a "Maddenist" (your stupid made up term).
Jeez you are dumb.