(09-13-2021, 11:20 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(09-13-2021, 11:12 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:  
I agree with all of this.

I guess what really surprises me is so many people on this board, who routinely demonstrate extensive football knowledge, are so shocked we did so badly yesterday. What it was, was Trevor Lawrence fever. Too many people convinced themselves that Sunshine was going to cure all, regardless of the fact that he's a purely raw rookie, as is the Head Coach, who are both trying leverage a team that was 1-15 last season.

Breathe people. Yes, we lost to the projected worst team in the NFL.  But truly, what ever convinced ANYONE that we could possibly be better than any team with the bad roster, an atrocious OL, and the rookie players and coaches we have? Most of you guys set the bar wayyyy too high with almost nothing realistic to set it on. 

Take off the Trevor glasses and soak in the suck. This is the reality. The good news is we will get better. Is a .250 season reachable? I thought I was being optimistic with that. But as long as we see steady improvement with the basics and things start to tighten up, there's no need to talk about burning it down, unless as Samus says, we're 9 games in and nothing is improving. Personally, I'll give it 5 games, but I'm flexible.

I did not expect the '92 Cowboys, but I expected a team that could do football basics like lining up in formation on the first play of the game and covering a running back on a wheel route. The team we saw yesterday didn't look bad, they looked unprepared.

Exactly. No one expected young players to be like veterans, we expected the team to look like it had the largest coaching staff on the league preparing them to not look like they had not practiced at all with repeated procedure penalties.

It reminded me of when I was a kid (back in the dark ages) and would play organized youth sports, and there were two kinds of coaches you could have. One kind was the guy that had everyone practice drills and awareness exercises, and helped kids learn from the bottom up, so to speak. And the other kind was the guy that just wanted everyone to have some fun and would just let everyone play for a couple of hours as the practice, and spend minimal time on things like understanding the rules or how to do the basics.

Watching the Jaguars vs the texans yesterday made me think of the Jaguars as being coached by the latter kind of coach and the Texans being coached by the former kind.

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