Quote:Does it matter if the players like the coach? Yes, sometimes. Harbaugh was not very liked but guess what, they were winning a ton. It wasn't until they started losing that you saw problems.


Give me a hated Harbaugh coach going to a SB and 3 straight NFC championships any day of the week.


Gus is very up beat and good for him. But you have to win in this league. No matter if players like you or not

 

And you once again completely missed my point.

 

The players KNOW a bad coach if they see one. As one player said before "you can't fake" coaching in the NFL. They may like Gus, but if the players feel he is holding the team back, then they'd turn on him because their performance and thus their jobs, rely on Gus doing his job and not just "showering them with sprinkles". My point is that these players inside the Jaguars locker room, they KNOW if Gus is the man for the job. And if he's not, we'll start hearing "leaks" from unnamed sources on how there's problems in the locker room.

 

It happened here with Mularkey, happened to Mangini in Cleveland. Especially now in the internet age where "unnamed sources" is the king? If Gus is really the problem as most of us think is the problem (I don't think he's the ONLY problem, which is where I differ with most on this board), it'll be out there soon enough.

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