(09-25-2023, 08:45 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(09-25-2023, 08:32 AM)Cleatwood Wrote: https://twitter.com/brentasjax/status/17...915L-t18Xg

That's a glimmer of hope I suppose, but with SO many players making SO many mistakes, my gut says it will be up to the coaching staff to get these guys back on track. Time for a reality check in those meeting rooms. 

We saw this team go from an insanely undisciplined mess to a well oiled machine, and now back to undisciplined mess.   The miscues, penalties, and all the unforced errors in general point to coaching for me.  Perhaps they've let these players believe their own hype too much, or perhaps a few mistakes in practice aren't being taken as seriously as they once were. Don't know how the slop has found a way back in - but it has. 

Cleaning up the dumb penalties and executing most of the plays they bungled with unforced errors (dropped passes, off-target passes, busted coverages, missed tackles)  would change the scoreboard over the past two weeks tremendously.

Not discounting other issues within this org - but just this simple stuff ^ would go a LONG way toward righting this ship.

My guess is that with the success in the second half of the season last year Doug was thinking his player leaders were experienced and mature enough that he could rely on them to self-motivate. He probably figured that the discipline on the roster would come from the top down. Based on the sloppy play on offense, I'd say that's a fail. The defense hasn't been awful but like in some past years they're obviously starting to lose motivation as they see the offense's ineptitude. The lack of a reliable pass rush certainly doesn't help though.

All in all, it's a mess right now but it feels like it's correctable. But it needs corrected now.

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