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Why on earth is Tyson Alualu out on 6 snaps on Offense?  All because they didnt want a FB but then said they need a FB?

Quote:Why on earth is Tyson Alualu out on 6 snaps on Offense?  All because they didnt want a FB but then said they need a FB?

 

Well if you think about it, is it really worth keeping one roster spot for a FB to play 6 snaps per game? Regardless, he wasn't really the problem in those short yardage failures.

I guess....

 

From ESPN...

and even though owner Shad Khan had told the Florida Times-Union that making a midseason coaching change wouldn’t be a sane decision, it would have been hard to justify not making some kind of change had the Jaguars lost a game in which they led by 24 points. Teams that had trailed by at least 24 points at any point in a game over the last 15 years had gone just 4-733 entering Sunday’s game.

Quote:Why on earth is Tyson Alualu out on 6 snaps on Offense?  All because they didnt want a FB but then said they need a FB?

 

The running game has been just fine without a FB.  Unless we have the second coming of Greg Jones, we don't need one.  More WRs and TEs on the field spreads the defense and gives Yeldon a little more room to dance.

Quote:Why on earth is Tyson Alualu out on 6 snaps on Offense? All because they didnt want a FB but then said they need a FB?

Not only that but they give the oaf the ball on a key 3rd and 1. Hello!!!! Earth to Gus...

I think everyone was stunned seeing alualu in the game, the 4 down disaster, our 3rd TE catching instead of thomas. This was all icing on the cake.

A lot of people's minds were made up about Gus before this game, admit it. Mine was.

Luckily we played a team that had a high school QB hand us a W on a silver platter, and yet Gus almost knocked over the silver platter.

Some fine play by Blake and Hurns saved the day but we have all seen the clock management, the timeouts, the challenges, the coach speak

motivational speaker and many do not like him.

Those attitudes are justifiable based on his record and production, not just this game..

How he has a job is almost beyond belief, but we have a very patient owner.

He didn't get to be a billionaire by being an idiot, maybe he knows something everyone else does not.

I give Shad and Gus and Dave the benefit of this season. The final talley will decide Gus's fate.

Quote:Nobody wants to blow it up and start over. They just want a new coach.

 

And a new coaching staff and a new defensive scheme and a new offensive scheme and shipping out the players who don't fit the new schemes and drafting or signing players who do fit the new schemes.  Maybe in 3 years you get back to today. 

Quote:"He's scared inaccurate and indecisive. He may well be just as bad as Blaine gabbert. We need to continue try and develop but we better draft a qb next year."


You also said he was scared and just as bad as Blaine Gabbert. So who should we draft in the first round at QB next year?

Do you not feel like we need to have a developmental qb on the roster? I stand by what I say.

Quote:I'm sorry, but this is one of the dumbest statements I have ever seen in this board, and I've seen plenty.

 

I mean, seriously. Do you really think that Gus is applauding Blake's decision making? Do you really think he's admiring the defensive play?

 

Good lord. Some of you guys are so far deep into your agenda that you are just grasping at straws. 

 

It's getting old but that's just the way it is.  Gus is at fault for any bad decision the team or staff makes; but everything positive is the players "self" coaching themselves to do better.  Coaches just help them make mistakes and everything good comes from their intestinal fortitude.  If they stop listening to Gus and just play by themselves, PLAYOFFS BABY........then........SUPERBOWLLLLL. lol

Quote:Starting Gratz was not the only critical coaching error.

Each time Gerhart came into the ballgame was a critical coaching error.

Yeldon should have gotten those carries, and really Yeldon should have gotten more carries overall.  Bortles was good but they leaned on him too much.

Yeldon is clearly a better ball carrier than Gerhart; however, it would have been a mistake to run anyone up the middle four times in a row. That was simply bad offensive play calling from Olsen. Someone needs to point out to the big 'O' that there are other options when you're that close to the goal line than running up the middle. Play option, for instance, has scored many a touchdown for the Jags in the past in the same situation. We have some good receivers, a mobile quarterback who can make good throws on the run or run himself, and a back who can also catch the ball. 

 

Gerhart isn't much of a contributor to this team, but I don't put the onus of that series of failed scoring attempts on him alone.

Quote:Yeldon is clearly a better ball carrier than Gerhart; however, it would have been a mistake to run anyone up the middle four times in a row. That was simply bad offensive play calling from Olsen. Someone needs to point out to the big 'O' that there are other options when you're that close to the goal line than running up the middle. Play option, for instance, has scored many a touchdown for the Jags in the past in the same situation. We have some good receivers, a mobile quarterback who can make good throws on the run or run himself, and a back who can also catch the ball. 

 

Gerhart isn't much of a contributor to this team, but I don't put the onus of that series of failed scoring attempts on him alone.

I do 100%.  If you look at the run on 3rd down, i believe, there was clearly an opening in the B gap on the left side of the line that he clearly missed running with his head/eyes down.  He went to the middle and tried to push his own teammates forward to get in the endzone for ONE YARD when he could've easily went left and scored.  He tried to fall on top of lineman and hope he would get in, like he's in pee wee football.  NO EXCUSE.  Watch the reply of those plays and you will clearly see what i'm talking about; and that's why TJ should've been in to get that score. i think the call was a gut check by Olsen to the Offense to go 1 on 1 with the D and get it in and Gerhart blew it.  That call was good but the player just isn't.

Quote:I do 100%.  If you look at the run on 3rd down, i believe, there was clearly an opening in the B gap on the left side of the line that he clearly missed running with his head/eyes down.  He went to the middle and tried to push his own teammates forward to get in the endzone for ONE YARD when he could've easily went left and scored.  He tried to fall on top of lineman and hope he would get in, like he's in pee wee football.  NO EXCUSE.  Watch the reply of those plays and you will clearly see what i'm talking about; and that's why TJ should've been in to get that score. i think the call was a gut check by Olsen to the Offense to go 1 on 1 with the D and get it in and Gerhart blew it.  That call was good but the player just isn't.

I'm pretty sure that Olsen is aware of Gerhart and his foibles, therefore, for Olsen to call that play with Gerhart was pretty much asking for what happened.

 

(Conspiracy Plot Warning!) Did Olsen do that on purpose to demonstrate beyond a shadow of doubt that Gerhart isn't cutting it? Hmmm.

 

Would Yeldon have made that play? Possibly... or maybe he would've pulled up and started 'dancing' as he sometimes does, looking for a hole to go through, and would've been dropped for a lose. We don't know, all we do know is that Gerhart isn't all that good at the one thing that he might be retained on this team for. Olsen, on the other hand, developed 'tunnel vision' himself when we probably could've bounced outside on an option play and scored. 

 

So I do agree with you 100% that Gerhart was/is a problem. However, I also think that Olsen needs to think about what actually works with what we actually have on the roster. Olsen is also guilty for facilitating that failure to score.

Quote:I'm pretty sure that Olsen is aware of Gerhart and his foibles, therefore, for Olsen to call that play with Gerhart was pretty much asking for what happened.


(Conspiracy Plot Warning!) Did Olsen do that on purpose to demonstrate beyond a shadow of doubt that Gerhart isn't cutting it? Hmmm.


Would Yeldon have made that play? Possibly... or maybe he would've pulled up and started 'dancing' as he sometimes does, looking for a hole to go through, and would've been dropped for a lose. We don't know, all we do know is that Gerhart isn't all that good at the one thing that he might be retained on this team for. Olsen, on the other hand, developed 'tunnel vision' himself when we probably could've bounced outside on an option play and scored.


So I do agree with you 100% that Gerhart was/is a problem. However, I also think that Olsen needs to think about what actually works with what we actually have on the roster. Olsen is also guilty for facilitating that failure to score.

They were trying to make a statement. Only they didn't end up saying the right things.

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(Conspiracy Plot Warning!) Did Olsen do that on purpose to demonstrate beyond a shadow of doubt that Gerhart isn't cutting it? Hmmm.

 

 

 

I don't think it's any conspiracy, but I do think evaluation played a small role. 

 

They came up with this short yardage package with Tyson/Toby early on - and aside from one preseason game when it worked every time and a reg. season game when they had to run it on third and fourth to get a yard, it has been mostly a failure. 

 

The goal-line call in London will likely spell the end of that page in the playbook, or at least give it an overhaul. 

 

(it's Olson, BTW)

Blame me.  It was my fault.

Prisco agrees with me on should have kicked...., so I have that going for me, which is nice...

 

"The Jaguars beat the Bills in London, but they did so despite a couple of questionable decision in the third quarter. They had a first-and-goal at the Buffalo 1 up 14 with seven minutes to go in the third quarter. They took running back T.J. Yeldon out of the game and put in Toby Gearhart. That's mistake No. 1. Why not keep Yeldon in the game? Why bring in a back just because he's bigger? Gerhart has no elusiveness. Mistake No. 2 is like all teams bunching up at the goal line. Why not stay spread out and run it? Mistake No. 3 was not kicking on fourth down. Up 14, you make it 17. They didn't, were stopped, and it gave the Bills momentum. Coaches have to think game flow when they make those decisions. Gus Bradley didn't. But he got a late-game touchdown drive from Blake Bortles to bail him out as the Jaguars won 34-31. It was another case of a coach who blew the situational coaching part of the game, but got away with it."

 

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/writer/pete...l-the-vibe

Quote:Why on earth is Tyson Alualu out on 6 snaps on Offense?  All because they didnt want a FB but then said they need a FB?

I like the move of not keeping a fullback. Saves a roster spot.

Buffalo has a very good front 7 and they had 9 or 10 of them stacked in there.  Alualu opened a nice hole on 2nd down but Toby went left into somebody's backside.  The 4th down run was very close to a TD but Buffalo did a great job bending Toby back about a foot short. 

 

Running into the teeth of a great defense isn't the best strategy, and I think Gus knows this.  Going for 7 there is recognizing that you can take control of the game.  A 9-minute drive and a 3-TD deficit is a strong statement.  It's a back-breaker.  I have no doubt everyone on the team wanted to go for it.  They didn't make it.  Maybe they learn something or change something, but I don't blame them for trying.  And they won the game anyway.  It's a free lesson, not a costly lesson. 

Quote:I'm sorry, but this is one of the dumbest statements I have ever seen in this board, and I've seen plenty.

 

I mean, seriously. Do you really think that Gus is applauding Blake's decision making? Do you really think he's admiring the defensive play?

 

Good lord. Some of you guys are so far deep into your agenda that you are just grasping at straws. 

 

No agenda. If you saw the game when I watched it on TV, not long after the pick 6 occurred, Gus was on the sidelines clapping.


Like, really? Why would he do that?

 

Another thing that stuck out with me was that after Bortles did that clutch drive when he finished it with a TD pass to Hurns, Gus wasn't clapping then.

 

I can't make this stuff up. 

Quote:No agenda. If you saw the game when I watched it on TV, not long after the pick 6 occurred, Gus was on the sidelines clapping.


Like, really? Why would he do that?

 

Another thing that stuck out with me was that after Bortles did that clutch drive when he finished it with a TD pass to Hurns, Gus wasn't clapping then.

 

I can't make this stuff up. 

 

He was too busy thanking God for keeping his job another 2 weeks.