Quote:It is, and the new CBA, which limits the amount of offseason contact teams can have with players, can exacerbate the plight, possibly lengthening development times.

 

I think coaching plays a huge role in player development.

 

But I think they have to be given the talent and the time to develop those players.  As a general rule, I don't think Bradley has been given enough of either.

 

I think Cyprien hasn't been as consistent and hasn't made the quantum leap as we had hoped.  I think Joeckel hasn't shown much at LT  Those are arguments against Bradley as developer of talent.

 

However, even Cecil Shorts made a quantum leap at WR under Sullivan.  I think the rookie WRs are each more talented than Shorts, and can make similar strides, which should make Bortles better.

 

Your point about the CBA is right on and I agree.  One thing I wondered though was that when I attended a training camp practice it was over 3 hours long and honestly, there was a LOT of standing around by a lot of players.  There was usually about 4 maybe 5 position group working at ones time meaning 5-10ish players were doing something at a given time.  That's only 1/5th of your starting roster working at one time while everyone else is standing in line for the drill.  Especially with the new CBA, you have to get all you can out of every practice and I just wonder if other teams are more efficient than the Jags?  I don't have anything to compare obviously but it seemed very inefficient to me and I just don't know how players can truly get that much better in that setting.  Not only did our team seem unprepared schematically to begin the season, the D got winded super early in games (even before they should have been tired as a result of a stagnant offense).  It seemed like the D got their wheels under them midway through the season or so.

 

One of the biggest rules of coaching sports is to maximize every players reps and I just didn't see that.  I remember others earlier in the preseason mentioned the same thing.

 

Thoughts?

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