Quote: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).

 

I think we all agree Gus will not see an easier SOS, with a lot of the teams missing key players, then he did in 2015.

 

There is no doubt that the 2016 schedule will be tougher then the 2015 one.

 

IMO, Gus is going to have to have a breakout season as Jags HC if he wants to be around in 2017 and beyond, and from what I have seen of Gus' head coaching history (12-35), especially this year, the odds are very much against it.

 

So basically 2016 is a prove it year for Gus, can he get the Jags to a winning, or at least a non-losing record, or even the playoffs in the very weak AFCS?

 

I believe that he has to at least get off to a good start to the season to at least have a chance for that to happen.

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