It's about expectations.  Philbin came into a team that was already competitive and in the 4th year the team so far has looked worse than in the prior few years.  Bradley came into a situation with a failed QB as his starter and a roster that was gutted and needed to be rebuilt and the only way you rebuild effectively is through the draft.  Our team's approach takes time, but it will be worth the wait.  We're not that far away and the season isn't lost yet.  Bradley isn't going anywhere just yet.

 

As this board discussed during the preseason what the Jags prospects would be through the first 4 games, most realistic fans felt we'd be something like 1 and 3.  Guess what?  We're 1 and 3 and people are as ready to jump off the Wells Fargo building as they've ever been.  This team is CLEARLY better than it has been the previous two years and that's apparent even though we're banged up.  This team will get better as the season goes along as it learns how to better finish games and also as our key injured players get healthy.

 

Yesterday hurts.  It's a game that we earned the win for but weren't rewarded with it.  We aren't a playoff team yet, but our division is so weak we actually have a shot at the division this year.  A game like yesterday will probably come back to haunt us at the end of the season, but a team is rarely the same in the first 4 weeks as it is in the last 4 weeks of the regular season.  Some teams get better, some get worse.  This team moves the ball and plays sound defense.  We just need to turn field goals into touchdowns and when we are forced to settle for a field goal we actually need to convert it.

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