Quote:The players you credit JDR for having were on teams JDR took us to the playoffs with.  If you cite those players, then give credit to JDR for the playoff appearances.

 

 

How about JDR's last 3 years here, the 2009/2010/2011 seasons which were his worst years as the Jags HC?  He had "lost the team" as some say.  He had Gene Smith doing his drafting.  He had:

 

no Fred Taylor

no Jimmie Smith

no Mike Peterson

no Donovin Darius

no Marcus Stroud

no Kyle Brady

no Chris Naeole

an injured Rashean Mathis that was only able to play half of the time

a banged-up Vince Manuwai

a banged up John Henderson (and only for one year, 2009)

...and a rotational qb trio of Garrard, McCown, and Gabbert.

 

He had MJD and Daryl Smith, Marcedes Lewis, Brad Meester (yawn) and that's about it.  And he went 18-25 during that time.  Gus has gone 7-25 with a team that would "run through walls" for him that was assembled by a much-better GM in Caldwell.

 

JDR gets the edge for having 2 years of "old" Jimmy Smith, Matt Jones, Reggie Williams, and Ernest Wilford over the "current young guys" that Gus has?  Discarding your obvious bias for a moment, you will see that JDR got more out of the team than the talent dictated he should have.  Gus has not done that.  Reason?  Gus is not a good HC, but JDR was not too bad.

 

Thank you, Kodiak.  I cannot break it down like you.  In my view, since we go by results in this league, it's blasphemous to even put Bradley and JDR in one sentence, UNTIL Bradley drastically starts upping his win totals.  Bradley, Murlakey...now we are talking.  For now, history says, in his worst season as head coach, JDR had a better record than Bradley's best (including the Tucker wins, season wise)

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