Quote:Sorry to bust your bubble, but inexperience isn't defined as just rookies. NFL players typically have their best seasons in the 5+ year range. Expecting 2nd and 3rd year players to play at that level is just foolish. Blaming the coach because young players aren't playing above their experience level is just flat out stupid.

 

Clemmons is over the hill, Marks has been injured most of the year (stupid to even bring him up) and Branch and Brown are back up level players at best. You can't seriously be using these players to support your argument.

 

Cyprien and Evans haven't even played at least 3 years considering they were drafted in 2013 and this is 2015 and they haven't even completed their third season, so you might want to study up on your 1st grade math. On top of that, Evans is a back up level player forced into starting. The jags secondary has exactly 1 starter in House that has actually been in the league at least 3 years, and shockingly, he has been our most productive player back there.

 

Both Telvin and Colvin have flashed as excellent players but shockingly (only to you) have given up plays due to being out of position because of inexperience.

 

One thing you naive football watchers can't seem to get through your thick skulls is that you can't coach experience. It is earned only with time. Only people with limited understanding of the game, such as yourself, can't comprehend this very basic fact.

 

I'm not saying that Gus has proven himself as a coach, but ignoring the inexperience of the roster is just flat out ignorant and demonstrates a limited grasp of the game.

 

 

LOL! I can't believe you are pretending we have a veteran team. How ignorant can you possibly be?

 

I never said we had a veteran team, so that's a strawman argument.


 

The problem with the team is the defense. The defense is not inexperienced in NFL terms. Teams rarely have a majority of players in their 5th year or more. Six of the Jags front seven (not including Marks) fit that category. So you then switch the argument from "experience" to "back up level players." If you want to argue player quality argue player quality, not "experience." But if you want to argue player quality, then the Jags defensive players are better than those of the Bears, Ravens, and Eagles, and probably several others, all of which have given up fewer points. And the Jags have played the easiest schedule in team history. We may never again face such a lucky confluence of opposing team woes.

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