Quote:The culture of the team is one that you can be comfortable in your job even if you succeed only 1/4 of the time.  Even if we used his average of .250 in baseball, it wouldn't be a good batting average.  That's how low the winning percentage is.  12-36 is absolutely a putrid record.  I don't foresee a scenario that this isn't another double digit loss team at the same time next year. 

 

To put it into perspective, let's look into the future.  Let's say that Bradley gets it together and becomes an awesome coach.  His winning percentage is so bad that he would have to average an 11-5 record for the next 4 years just to pull his career winning percentage to .500. 

 

To further quantify your statement...

 

Assuming Bradley goes 9-7 next year (which I think we could all agree would be a very aggressive expectation/achievement) that would put him at 21-43 over 64 games.

 

The only coaches in the history of the NFL that had the same success or worse (in 64 games or more) are:

 

Bill McPeak with 21 wins in 70 games (going 1-12-1, 5-7-2, 3-11, 6-8 and 6-8)

 

David Shula with 19 wins over 71 games (going 5-11, 3-13, 3-13, 7-9, 1-6)

 

Harland Svare with 21 wins over 74 games (going 0-5, 5-9, 5-7-2, 4-10, 2-2, 4-9, 1-6)

 

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/

 

None of the above coaches won more than 7 games in a season.  There is no logic or rationale that should lead anyone to conclude that Bradley will lead this team to a winning culture. 

 

To me, the Jaguars organization has made an emotional decision based on Bradley's personality.  As much as anyone I hope he pans out but there are no facts to back up that hope.

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