Quote:Fortunately for the Jaguars, I think they have/will avoid the sins of prior defensive coaches like Ryan and JDR.

 

Ryan was never able to build a credible OL.  With Joeckel, Beadles, and Pasztor at RT, we appear to have the makings of at least a decent OL.

 

JDR was never able to get competent WRs, except for a couple of seasons, never had a competent LT, and had competent at best QBs between BL and DG.

 

Aside from the proper development of Bortles, I'm confident about the offense for years to come.  Not that I LACK confidence in Bortles' development, per se.  It's just that developing QBs seems to be the hardest thing for NFL teams to do.  Bradley and Caldwell seem to have a good plan in place.

 

I just hope Bradley can develop a defense at least as good as the 2005-2006 Jaguars and those Ryan era defenses.

 

If Bradley can develop a defense here that is on par with Ryan's D in Philly, the Jaguars will probably win one or more SB's over the his tenure. The Jags offense in its blueprint right now is primed to develop to a higher ceiling than that Ryan offense. Ryan's offense had some good players on it, such as the aforementioned WR, and Keith Jackson/ Keith Byars...but lets face it - his offense wasn't much more intricate than "Hey Randall....go out there and make me 5 big plays per game, and we'll win most of our games....

 

Problem was, that worked fairly well in the regular season....in the playoffs with better competition and better coaching on the other side??.....notsomuch. That Rams DC Fritz Shurmur ( I think his name was) totally stymied Randall in that 1989 wild card game by implimenting a 3-8 defense for basically the whole game. Joe Gibbs in 1990 held the Randall led Eagles to 6 points in that WC game. 

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