Quote:Bullseye, as usual your post is well reasoned and astute.

 

You really should be made a moderator, as you'd be an ideal representative of what a poster on the board should aspire to.

 

It's true that firing a coach is a difficult decision, though I think the main reason for that isn't because of scheme changes or anything of the like, it's because of the difficulty in finding a genuinely elite head coach.

 

It's why there is so much recycling of them. (Parcells is a good example of this, as was Jimmy Johnson)

 

If the Jaguars could get someone like Harbaugh or Cowher I think jettisoning a guy that has proven not to be a difference making head coach would make sense.

 

That said, I think without the possibility of getting an actual elite coach then it might be better over the long term to keep the same guys around another year to try to keep the environment stable for Bortles until he's reached a point in his development that he's ready for a real coach to come in and take him from the "developing the basics" stage into the elite stage.