Quote:Bullseye, you are entitled to your opinion. 

 

All I know is the Bortles I saw in his first 5 appearances as a Jaguar (and 1st half of the SD game) was pretty much the same Bortles that I saw at UCF that produced a 9.3 YPA. 

 

The Bortles of the last 6 quarters of football looks like a QB that is artificially being neutered by bad play calling. Mostly every thing short. All that does is make life easier for the defense.

 

 

I disagree that Kotite is a good comparison because Kotite took over an established playoff roster.

 

A good comparison for Kotite would be Barry Switzer.

 

Jimmy Johnson is not a good comparison for Kotite, but is a good comparison for Bradley, since they both have similar starting points (rosterwise)  in the NFL. 

 

But the underlined is precisely why your analysis in this thread is hopelessly premature.

 

Without experienced  & refined NFL caliber talent, how can you determine whether a coach is a good coach or not?

 

By your own words, you acknowledged Kotite (and later Switzer) looked better in their first 20 games as coach than they otherwise should have because they had better than average talent on their rosters.

 

Conversely, Jimmy Johnson did not look good in his first 20 games or so due to a lack of talent.

 

Ditto for Bradley.

 

Now Jimmy Johnson's team DID show improvement from year one to year two-and the first five games in year two specifically.  But the teams JJ beat in those first five games weren't very good, as opposed to the array of very good to elite QBs the Jaguars played in the first five games here.

 

Also keep in mind, in going from year 1 to year 2, Johnson had Aikman going from his rookie year to his second year, a rookie Emmitt Smith, a finally healthy Michael Irvin, Ken Norton Jr, Mark Stepnoski, Nate Newton and Kevin Gogan already on the roster. 

 

Bradley went from Gabbert and Henne his first year, to a rookie Bortles in his second year, with no Emmitt Smith in the backfield at this point, two rookies along the OL (3 counting Joeckel), 3 WRs, etc.

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