Quote:I think two things are in play:

 

1. Khan and Caldwell want to give Bradley every opportunity to turn this around before giving up on him, and...

 

2. Khan doesn't want to bring a hapless team with an interim coach promoted days ago to London as he tries to build the brand over there.

 

A third factor possibly in play is that Caldwell might not believe that anyone currently on the coaching staff would do any better with the team than Bradley, and he's content to let Bradley play out the string and either figure it out or get a pink slip for Christmas.

 

Still, though, if ever there was a situation in which an early-season head coaching change was warranted, this is it. The team has young talent, and Caldwell has done a good job with the rebuild. New England aside, the losses have more to do with mental breakdowns and poor coaching decisions than they do talent level. That setup almost screams for the reins to be handed to someone else to see if he can do any better with the talent afforded him. Marrone would still be the Bills coach if he hadn't taken the money and ran, and I think losing sight of that in defense of sticking with Bradley is a big mistake.

 

Well Reasoned post - one of the few I've seen (myself included) in a long while.

 

My counterpoints:

 

1.) We HAVE given Bradley enough time. 37 games. Compared to other coordinator hires as first time HC, he has gotten a lot of tim for little reason.

• Mangini was run out of NY in 3 seasons (48 games) but had 2 actual winning seasons during that time and still got fired. In fact, Bradley had 25 losses over the course of his first two seasons, the same number that Mangini had over 3 full seasons. Let that sink in. And he still got run out of town.
  
   
  
• McDaniels: 28 games before he was fired.
  
   
  
• Spags: Approached Gus level of horrendous. Only got 3 years (48 games) and the only reason he got a 3rd was because his second year was 7-9.
  

What has Gus done to deserve a 3rd season in the first place, current state of the Jags aside?

 

 

2.) This is probably the correct answer (nice case analysis) but we're still fielding a hapless product on field. Coach or not, we still suck, though I imagine our product will be a bit more refined with continuity at HC vs a first week interim HC.

 

3.) More than anything, we have to really find out. And even if that is true, a firing sends the message all teh way down to the coordinators to shape up or get out.

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