Honestly, with the circumstances that occurred this year, this was probably more cake of a schedule that the 12-4 2004 season, and possibly you could argue the easiest in franchise history with how things worked out for us every week. With that said, we managed to only handle 1 team, and muster up 5 wins against some very poor/injured/below average teams. I think we faced 4 playoff teams(potentially 5) and lost to every one of them. Only one(2 if Atlanta makes it) was a one score game. Sure. we "competed" against the bottom of the barrel teams(excluding the Jets, they are good) and outside of Indy(How on earth did they win 7 games? How? I would argue we have more talent almost at every position but Dline) our margin of victory through the other 4 wins is 14 total points against lower tier teams like a severely hobbled Bills team(3), Baltimore(2 and should have lost), Tennessee(6), and Miami(3) quit on Philbin.

 

I am not so sure one off-season, and a much, much more difficult schedule is going to go well for Bradley and co. We will need a blockbuster draft and FA to even hope to compete/rush the passer vs the level of QB play we will see next year. Rodgers, Teddy B, Carr, Luck x2, Cutler, Taylor,Rivers, Mariota x2, and Alex Smith. Sure, not all of them are world beaters but with time to throw they can embarrass you. I want the Jags to win as much as anybody, but reality is pointing towards another year of GusBall and a tough slate of games await us. Whoever inherits this team in 2017 is going to have a LOADED roster, if Gus were to fail ofc(very likely imo).

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