(10-11-2021, 12:34 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: Gus Bradley was awful from day 1, yet I never saw this level of vitriol.

I did discover one thing, Urban Meyer elicits very strong emotion in people.

In hindsight, yes Gus was bad from day one.

Difference in why we gave him a chance? He didn't display numerous red flags in his first offseason such as hiring racist buddies, conjuring up a QB competition when there wasn't a logical reason for it, or bringing in his buddy to compete for the roster; he wasn't out grinding after team losses (or at least he didn't get caught) instead of flying back like 99.9 percent of head coaches do. He didn't admit in interviews his own incompetence (what's a waiver wire, I don't do the prep I delegate it, my QB isn't ready for a sneak even though he will tell you twenty minutes later); he also wasn't making the personnel decisions such as draft picks, so in the moment, that wasn't something that could be held against him, and had to be sorted out; i.e. during the first year of the rebuild, it was harder to differentiate bad coaching from bad drafting (we now know in that case it was both).

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