Through the first 20 games of is head coaching career in Jacksonville,  Jack Del Rio was 8-12 compared to the 4-16 record Gus Bradley produced thus far. The situations that both Coach Jack Del Rio and Coach Gus Bradley walked into were eerily similar, with the main difference being that Coach Del Rio was never passed over for the North Dakota State head coaching job prior to getting an NFL job. It is blatantly apparent to me that Coach Bradley is a great football mind who needs a mentor and some immediate guidance. 

 

So who to tutor and mentor Coach Bradley?  It's football season, and most everyone whom would be practical or capable are obviously tied up with various football responsibilities. I have an "outside the box" idea that I really believe might work. For as dumb, idiotic and ridiculous that soccer is, the one rule they do have that makes sense is the ability to loan a player to another club at different points in the season. For example,according to section 7.2 and rule M.6 in the English Premier League players on loan are not permitted to play against the team which holds their registration. My thought is if they can lend players, why not borrow coaches? Why don't we see if we can't borrow someone with a higher pedigree to come in and help out? Keeping in mind that according to this rule we couldn't borrow someone whom we were to compete against this year, the first person who comes to my mind is Jack Del Rio. Coach Del Rio could come in 1 day per week and hold accountability sessions via skype with Gus Bradley the other 2-3 days per week. At this point, Denver's defense is on cruise control and I'm sure they wouldn't have any issue as we don't play each other until the playoffs. Learning from the winningest coach in the history of our organization would undoubtedly help and could be all it would take to turn the tide. Another coach who comes to mind is Santos Buda, Head Coach of the Omaha Mammouths. Being from this area I'm a little biased about  high abilityl level, but I know this would scenario would be beneficial to Coach Bradley. The Mammouths would probably want some sort of agreement where the Jags couldn't hire him but  based on the fact that Santos has surrounded himself with a Who's Who of coaches on his staff, this would probably work. According to himself, Santos was ahead of his time with the passing games in the late 70's and would be a great asset in mentoring a young quarterback so just think where he could help take our passing game.  After all wouldn't it make sense for Bradley to learn from someone who actually did coach in the NCC? If all else fails, we can always fall back on Joe Macmenamin who has made a living as a "Talent Utilization" consultant. The knock on Macmenamin though is he has a tough time relating to the common person from an intellectual standpoint, and often time struggles to "dumb it down" to where the common man can understand what he is actually talking about. 

 

I am not trying to push the panic button or undermine Coach Bradley in any way, but assuming we win tomorrow and assuming Houston, loses, we will control our own destiny in our division as we play Houston twice - both at home and away this season. I think if we can win 10 or our last 12, 10-6 gets us in as Indianapolis and Tennessee are both bad teams. There is still a lot of season left, and if all it would take would be to give our head coach a little assistance, lets not be to proud or stubborn to do so.

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