Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Quote:Am i expecting depth to be starting caliber from top to bottom? Where do you even come up with this stuff.
And yes it absolutely was a shocker they scored on everydrive, are you freakin serious? That doesn't happen in the NFL.
Next man up doesn't mean you're going to get starter quality across the board. Depth is depth for a reason.
Two of our DBs and our best defensive lineman were inactive for that game. We also lost two additional DBs during the game forcing them to put a guy who was playing QB in college last year out there. It wasn't a shock that New England blew the Jags out.
Quote:Next man up doesn't mean you're going to get starter quality across the board. Depth is depth for a reason.
Two of our DBs and our best defensive lineman were inactive for that game. We also lost two additional DBs during the game forcing them to put a guy who was playing QB in college last year out there. It wasn't a shock that New England blew the Jags out.
Tough to defend a 34 point loss...come to the dark side. Stop blindly defending the team.
Quote:Next man up doesn't mean you're going to get starter quality across the board. Depth is depth for a reason.
More brilliant insight by "the thinker".
Quote:Tough to defend a 34 point loss...come to the dark side. Stop blindly defending the team.
I'm not defending a 34 point loss. Not at all. But, I don't see that as the benchmark by which this team should be judged. It's the anomaly this season.
Quote:More brilliant insight by "the thinker".
Clearly you need someone to state the obvious. You say next man up, but then do the two step saying you don't expect depth to be starter quality. What will the next dance maneuver be?
To me, the last 3 games are more telling than the Patriots blow-out.
To me, the measuring stick games just wrapped up. If we really are progressing as a TEAM, we should have beaten those teams that have less talent than we do.
You have to admit that when we played the clots we had the more talented team. same with the last 2 weeks.
Yet we still lost to all 3 teams. I mean, it's pretty simple math, isn't it?
In 3 years we have gone from the worst team in the league to the worst team in the league....
Improvements are only measure in wins. Period.
How come the NFL doesn't keep track of moral victories?
"The Jags were 4-12 last year but their moral victory record was 8-8"
Quote:The NFL wants us to keep Gus so we keep losing. It gives them hope that if we keep losing we will stop supporting the team Shad Khan can move the team to London, which will generate all sorts of marketing revenue and appeal to a larger audience, which of course means more money in the NFL elite..
I just made a thread about this in the sideline and they're calling me crazy for it... clueless group this is
Quote:This entire post is a complete contradiction of itself.
No point debating with fat boy twinkle fingers. He's been saying the same stuff for years defending different regimes in One Everbank Field Dr. looking stupid each and every year. Him defending this is the band continuing to march through hell. It's no help for fat Timmy until finally one year the Jags go 9-7 and he can finally say I told you so. Harping on the passing game solely as improvement when the entire team outside of that sucks to high heavens is nothing but spinning. Even that is inconsistent and cost us games.
Quote:I just made a thread about this in the sideline and they're calling me crazy for it... clueless group this is
Cuz you are crazy. It's a baseless thing to say.
Quote:The defense is definitely struggling, but how much of that can be attributed to having zero pass rush, and how much of that can be tied to injuries? It's not like they didn't focus on improving the pass rush this off season. Unfortunately, they lost the guy they were putting a lot of expectation in to help in that regard to IR, and their best defensive lineman only got back on the field in a limited role last week. We've also seen our secondary decimated by one injury after another, and we've had injuries to our LB corps as well. It's been like a MASH unit for the defense this year.
The lack of a pass rush by the front four is obvious to everyone from the waterboy on up. So why haven't the Jags tried to compensate. In the last three games the Jags faced QBs and offensive lines that were ideal to blitz against.
1. Indy had a QB who, if he ran, risked disaster since they had no real backup. Their OL was cobbled together and using extra rushers was very likely to create confusion and an free path to the QB.
2. Tampa Bay had a rookie QB, a guy who had just thrown a boatload of interceptions the previous game, and their best offensive lineman was out.
3. Houston also had OL injuries, and when the Jags did blitz it affected Hoyer.
Watch the three plays starting at 6:15 in the 3rd quarter of the Houston game and tell me again why Gus' and/or Babich's (whoever was in charge of that call) failure to to blitz on 3rd down was anything but an obviously stupid decision. That failure is 100% the fault of Gus Bradley since Babich is his chosen DC, and that series of plays is a microcosm of the overall failure of the coaching staff.
Have the Jags improved? Of course! The personnel has improved a lot. Yet we just lost three consecutive games to some of the worst teams in the NFL. Close losses is an improvement, but not close losses to really bad teams. Starting in week 5 of last year the Jags had close losses too, but against mostly good teams. Even considering closer losses there's no improvement in the results. It's obvious to anyone who has followed the team this season that Bradley is one of the worst head coaches in NFL history. Waiting another ten games isn't going to change that.
Quote:Cuz you are crazy. It's a baseless thing to say.
To each their own. But hey, on your profile are you referencing the MNF game in 06?
So we loss to a Colts team who trotted out a sick 40 year old backup qb with a bad roster, a team who picked 1st in the draft with a error laden rookie qb, and a team with no quarterback who also lost to the 40 year old sick quarterback. That's some real progress and improvement. That's damn near impossible to go 0-3 against teams that are that bad in a row.
Quote:The lack of a pass rush by the front four is obvious to everyone from the waterboy on up. So why haven't the Jags tried to compensate. In the last three games the Jags faced QBs and offensive lines that were ideal to blitz against.
1. Indy had a QB who, if he ran, risked disaster since they had no real backup. Their OL was cobbled together and using extra rushers was very likely to create confusion and an free path to the QB.
2. Tampa Bay had a rookie QB, a guy who had just thrown a boatload of interceptions the previous game, and their best offensive lineman was out.
3. Houston also had OL injuries, and when the Jags did blitz it affected Hoyer.
Watch the three plays starting at 6:15 in the 3rd quarter of the Houston game and tell me again why Gus' and/or Babich's (whoever was in charge of that call) failure to to blitz on 3rd down was anything but an obviously stupid decision. That failure is 100% the fault of Gus Bradley since Babich is his chosen DC, and that series of plays is a microcosm of the overall failure of the coaching staff.
Have the Jags improved? Of course! The personnel has improved a lot. Yet we just lost three consecutive games to some of the worst teams in the NFL. Close losses is an improvement, but not close losses to really bad teams. Starting in week 5 of last year the Jags had close losses too, but against mostly good teams. Even considering closer losses there's no improvement in the results. It's obvious to anyone who has followed the team this season that Bradley is one of the worst head coaches in NFL history. Waiting another ten games isn't going to change that.
Play calling is something that's certainly open to scrutiny. We know we don't have the horses to create a pass rush with the front 4, but for some reason that's what Babich has continued to try to do, and because we're not getting pressure on the QB, we're getting picked apart. And when they make a play against our secondary, the message board GMs immediately blast the DBs for not doing their job despite the fact that the QB had 7-10 seconds to stand back there and wait for a receiver to get open. People lambasted Branch last year when he would get a sack because they had to scheme the defense to get him to the passer. They're not even doing that this year, opting to put everything on the DBs to hold their coverages for a ridiculous amount of time. Even the best in the business can't lock a receiver down for as long as they're expecting our guys to do here.
Nobody is lauding the coaching prowess of Gus Bradley. There's plenty to question where he's concerned, and if the team doesn't make significant improvements across the board the rest of this season, I wouldn't expect to see him get a year 4 at the helm. For a team built around youth, Gus was a good hire to help the younger guys transition to the NFL. I don't see him as the guy that's going to take them from acclimating to the NFL to competing for the post season at this level. He could certainly change that perception if they suddenly start to click, and that's a remote possibility. I'm not expecting it to happen. But, the team has improved, and should continue to do so as these younger players develop and continue to mature. If a new coach is brought in next year, he'll have a good core to work with.
Firing anyone with 10 games to go isn't going to change anything, IMO. Especially if you're dumping the head coach. He's got this season to prove himself. Nothing short of a catastrophic collapse will assure he makes it to the end of the year.
Quote:To each their own. But hey, on your profile are you referencing the MNF game in 06?
You are free to provide any evidence you have acquired. I mean, if that was the case then why did we fire Murlarkey when the already had their sabotoger?
Honestly I would have to look back to tell you. It sounds about right.
Quote:I just made a thread about this in the sideline and they're calling me crazy for it... clueless group this is
I don't believe anyone called you crazy.
There were more accurate definitions.
So in summation, Bradley is a colossal failure as a head coach and should be fired. We all seem agree on this, it seems. Let's just leave it there and move the <expletive> on. Barring a miraculous turnaround, he won't be here next season. FBT is right (imo), whether its now or the end of the season...as long as he's gone (or our boys play lights out and don't lose another game...lolwut) it's not really going to matter.
The problem is "fit". A young team needs an experienced coach, an X and O guy who can get the most out of young players while teaching them .. having a first time head coach lead a young team is going to lead to many mistakes. Gus would be a great coach on a team of vets who know the game and need a cheerleader/friend coach at the end of their careers.. They know how to use timeouts and manage the clock and will help him learn to coach.
Fire him.
Quote:Literally the only improvement is the passing game. Defense is worse. Running game is nonexistent. Special Teams is terrible. Passing is the only improvement. Unfortunately, it is inconsistent. Which is an improvement over consistently terrible the last 3 years.
OUCH, seeing all those flaws right there in a row is just a cold hard slap of reality.
Quote:In 3 years we have gone from the worst team in the league to the worst team in the league....
Improvements are only measure in wins. Period.
How come the NFL doesn't keep track of moral victories?
"The Jags were 4-12 last year but their moral victory record was 8-8"
You must have given the Jags a moral victory when you said they were 4-12 last year, because they were really only 3-13, but everything else you stated was spot on.
Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12