(09-24-2024, 11:05 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(09-24-2024, 11:00 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: Could very well be, but the NFL is a week to week league a lot of times.  It needs to be our week finally.  It doesn't help when you're not playing well as a team AND not getting any breaks or significant calls while the opposing team is.  BTJ drops a pass on the first drive that would have put us in a much more manageable 3rd and short.  Travon gets blatantly held on an early TD pass.  Offenses and defenses don't play in a vacuum.  What happens to one affects the other thru field position and time on the bench and overall mentality.  We're better than we looked last night, but clearly not good enough to overcome bad calls/no calls, drops and injuries.  Same story the first two weeks.  This team is not mentally tough right now.  Perhaps that can still change this season.

People expecting firings this week are setting themselves up to ragequit.  The firings will be next week if we lose and go 3 games behind the tinhorns, lol.  You don't blow things up when the stakes are still high going into a division game and you've had some significant injuries and bad luck accompanying your sub par play.  At some point the luck will change.

I will say that Doug needs to announce who is calling plays.  This being coy [BLEEP] I didn't have much of a problem with at first, but it's utter [BLEEP] after last night and I'm not laying the majority of blame last night on offensive play calls.  It was definitely more execution, but part of your responsibility as head coach is getting your team ready to play.  We haven't seen what we saw last night in some time and I realize some of that was getting into negative game script early with drops and missed assignments and a bad no call on the blatant hold.  I don't care what the answer is regarding offensive play caller if it's Press, him or both, but his leash should be getting mighty short and, moving forward, blame needs to be able to be properly assigned when appropriate whether that's him or Press or both.  He's squandered the good will he's been afforded.

And if he comes out and says "I've been calling plays all year" none of these people would believe him.

I'm not worried about the first 3 games.  I'm talking about moving forward.  He's shielding Press from media scrutiny.  I didn't have a problem with that because I believed some were making too big a deal out of it, but he's lost the good will he had in my mind to be able to do that anymore.  I'm not giving up on him or the season like some, but it should be fair game to scrutinize if the losses keep coming.

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