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While talent will help, the concern about adjustments at half and why we seem to get out played in the 2nd half will remain until it's addressed.


I think it's a valid concern to question the coaching at this point.


I'm not sure there is any crowning or crucifying going on.


It's just a debate regarding the coach's progress up to this point.


This Sunday gives them another opportunity to show how much the players have progressed.


It also gives us a chance to see how the coaches have progressed.


There's no witch hunt going on here.


There's no coronation ceremony going on either.


And I think that's fair

 

Exactly. Not trying to crucify Bradley, just making it clear that at this point it's obvious to me at best he's a standard run of the mill coach. He's not an exceptional one. Any success the team has will squarely be thanks to Bortles and Caldwell.

 

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SEATTLE:
2008: YDS/G: 378.0 (30TH), PASS/G 259.3 (32ND), RUSH/G 118.7 (18TH), PTS/G 24.5 (25TH)

BRADLEY

2009: YDS/G: 356.4 (24TH), PASS/G 245.4 (30TH), RUSH/G 110.7 (15TH), PTS/G 24.4 (25TH)

BRADLEY+CAROL

2010: YDS/G: 371.8 (27TH), PASS/G 249.6 (27TH), RUSH/G 118.9 (21ST), PTS/G 25.4 (25TH)

2011: YDS/G: 332.2  (9TH), PASS/G 219.9 (11TH), RUSH/G 112.3 (15ST), PTS/G 19.7 (7TH)

2012: YDS/G: 306.2  (4TH), PASS/G 203.1  (6TH), RUSH/G 103.1 (10TH), PTS/G 15.3 (1ST)

CAROL

2013: YDS/G: 273.6  (1st), PASS/G 172.0  (1st), RUSH/G 101.6  (7TH), PTS/G 14.4 (1ST)

 
JAX:

<div>2012: YDS/G: 380.5 (30TH), PASS/G 239.5 (22ND), RUSH/G 141.0 (30TH), PTS/G 27.8 (29TH)

BRADLEY
2013: YDS/G: 379.4 (27TH), PASS/G 247.6 (25th), RUSH/G 131.8 (29TH), PTS/G 28.1 (28TH)

2014: YDS/G: 451.3 (32ND), PASS/G 320.8 (32ND), RUSH/G 130.5 (25TH), PTS/G 38.0 (32ND)

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What I gather:
1. From the time Bradley arrived in Seattle it took 2 full bad seasons before the defense got good.  
2. The defense took a jump from bad to good from one season to the other
3. Jacksonville was significantly worse off than Seattle was upon his arrival.  I'm not sure what the Seattle roster situation was at the time, but Jacksonville was completely gutted when he got there on top of already being bad.
4. The defense is historically bad so far this year.  Sheesh. 38 PTS?  451 yards???
5. If we factor everything together, and are basing it off his time in Seattle, I'd say 2016 would be the year to actually expect a good defense (if it happens at all)
 

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The bolded is the important part. This team has been historically bad, and it's not just this year. The team was historically bad last year, too, if Houston didn't go in the tank.

 

Elite coaches just don't have teams flailing this badly for this long.

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