Quote:If Bradley stays (and maybe he does), Khan will be forced to do something to keep fan interest in this team.

 

The crowd we saw yesterday was very telling of the current state of this fanbase.

 

Without thousands and thousands of opposing fans, the stadium is going to be half empty.

 

Trotting Gus out there again next year is not going to move the needle.

 

The offseason is going to be a tipping point for Khan's ownership of this team. He is going to almost be forced to open his wallet in free agency. And it has to be the top free agents. No more bargain hunting. It has to be names like Devin McCourty, Julius Thomas, KJ Wright.

Sorry to point this out SDR, but...

 

The "move the needle" argument was the same one voiced by the Tebow fans.

 

If the team sucks, it won't draw well.  And this team sucks - well, 2/3 of it does.  The 2/3 that Bradley wasn't brought in to fix.

 

And the 1/3 of the team that really sucks is the offense, which is due to poor QB play.  This one I can't blame on the coaches, because Bradley is doing what we all asked him to do.  He is letting Bortles go out and make his mistakes, and he has company in those mistakes with dropped balls and missed blocking assignments.

 

The person that I blame the most for the Jags actually doing worse than last year?  Chad Henne.  If he had performed half as well as he was supposed to, we'd have shown some marginal improvement.  Instead, here we are, trying to match the 4 wins of last year by winning 2 of the last 3.  I don't think it's going to happen.

 

I just can't get on the "fire Bradley" bandwagon.  I don't think he's the problem.  And I think Bullseye has voiced a good point in that even if Bradley isn't Super Bowl calibre, you can't adopt the Washington/Oakland coaching carousel system and build a winner.

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