In addition to what you mentioned, the fact that the game at Indianapolis has no playoff implications for each team makes that game that much more meaningless in the evaluation process.


Though Doug Marrone is someone that the Jaguars should interview for the HC position in the next couple of weeks or so, there's absolutely no question that his limited body of work as Jaguars interim HC works against him compared to if he had a much more extensive interim opportunity.

Exactly. Even if he has an equally impressive game next week, we still don't know for sure if he is the coach of the future. If we had done this earlier, we would of had an idea of how Marrone acts under different scenarios, and if it didn't pan out, then we'd do what we were going to do anyway and hire a coach this offseason.


The whole "changing a coach mid season is useless" thing is just so dumb it's hilarious.


"But history says..." blah blah blah. History also said Gus Bradley was a terrible coach.

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Exactly. Even if he has an equally impressive game next week, we still don't know for sure if he is the coach of the future. If we had done this earlier, we would of had an idea of how Marrone acts under different scenarios, and if it didn't pan out, then we'd do what we were going to do anyway and hire a coach this offseason.


The whole "changing a coach mid season is useless" thing is just so dumb it's hilarious.


"But history says..." blah blah blah. History also said Gus Bradley was a terrible coach.

But 4 years ago he was a hot up and coming coordinator showing promise...If only there was something like a crystal ball to look through to see what he would be 4 years later we would have known... 

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While it does leave the door open to say "what-if", it just isn't a successful move to fire a coach mid-season.

 

http://toplevelsports.net/dont-fire-nfl-...id-season/

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But 4 years ago he was a hot up and coming coordinator showing promise...If only there was something like a crystal ball to look through to see what he would be 4 years later we would have known...

And optimism is fine, I thought Gus Bradley was going to be our savior when we first hired him.


Luckily, you don't need a crystal ball, you just need to know what you're looking at. Gus Bradley's glaring pitfalls where not just this year. Poor clock management, poor coordinator hires, pointless running/ defensive schemes, and an overall lack of preparedness followed Gus his whole time here.


In year three of his rebuild, Gus Bradley couldnt defeat a colts team without Andrew Luck for the lead in the division. That's when I officially lost all hope for GB. The game scores from last year don't even begin to paint the reality of what really happened.


I went back and looked at all of GBs victories, and he beat a whopping 4 starting caliber QBs, including a rookie Mariota. FOUR. In 4 years.Three of those wins came from Brian Hoyer, and god knows how many games we've lost at the hands of backup QBs.


This move has been obvious for a while now.

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And optimism is fine, I thought Gus Bradley was going to be our savior when we first hired him.


Luckily, you don't need a crystal ball, you just need to know what you're looking at. Gus Bradley's glaring pitfalls where not just this year. Poor clock management, poor coordinator hires, pointless running/ defensive schemes, and an overall lack of preparedness followed Gus his whole time here.


In year three of his rebuild, Gus Bradley couldnt defeat a colts team without Andrew Luck for the lead in the division. That's when I officially lost all hope for GB. The game scores from last year don't even begin to paint the reality of what really happened.


I went back and looked at all of GBs victories, and he beat a whopping 4 starting caliber QBs, including a rookie Mariota. FOUR. In 4 years.Three of those wins came from Brian Hoyer, and god knows how many games we've lost at the hands of backup QBs.


This move has been obvious for a while now.

and the the fact that he had a depleted roster for the first couple years sure didnt help him...caldwell said he probably cut too deep too fast...i doubt any coach could have got many more wins in the first 2 years...not defending Gus, just being fair...he didnt help himself much either, but he didnt have a lot to work with the first 2 years

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And optimism is fine, I thought Gus Bradley was going to be our savior when we first hired him.


Luckily, you don't need a crystal ball, you just need to know what you're looking at. Gus Bradley's glaring pitfalls where not just this year. Poor clock management, poor coordinator hires, pointless running/ defensive schemes, and an overall lack of preparedness followed Gus his whole time here.


In year three of his rebuild, Gus Bradley couldnt defeat a colts team without Andrew Luck for the lead in the division. That's when I officially lost all hope for GB. The game scores from last year don't even begin to paint the reality of what really happened.


I went back and looked at all of GBs victories, and he beat a whopping 4 starting caliber QBs, including a rookie Mariota. FOUR. In 4 years.Three of those wins came from Brian Hoyer, and god knows how many games we've lost at the hands of backup QBs.


This move has been obvious for a while now.

and the point of my post was that Gus was a hot name so it wasnt just Caldwell that was disillusioned 

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and the point of my post was that Gus was a hot name so it wasnt just Caldwell that was disillusioned

Yeah, I just had to vent. I get your point, again I was disillusioned myself, but the signs were there for a while. A coaching change from Gus Bradley should never be considered "meaningless".

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