Quote:Preaching the the choir. We are well aware and overdue for a string of winning seasons. Gus has to take a big step forward this year in terms of coaching. He had some real head scratchers even late last year. I want him to succeed, but I really think he is in over his head in a big way. 

 

I think we're so close to this team, and we watch them so closely all the time, every game, that we see all the coaching mistakes.   I think if you watch any team that closely, you'll see loads of coaching mistakes.   So I think our vision of Bradley is skewed by the way we have him under a microscope.   Any coach who wins a bunch of games is a genius, while any coach who loses a bunch of games is a dunce and we see all the reasons why, because we are watching every single play and everything in between. 

 

Heck, I remember a game a couple of years ago when the Pats went for it on 4th down on their own 30 yard line, and failed, and lost the game as a result, when they could have just punted the ball and left it up to the defense like any other coach in football would have.   Tom Coughlin used to regularly go for 2 in the first half.  I thought that was pretty stupid.   But give Belichick and Coughlin some great players to work with and they win Super Bowls.  

 

Pete Carroll threw the ball from the 1 yard line with Marshawn Lynch in the backfield and the Pats showing no signs they could stop him, and as we all know, the ball got picked and the Seahawks lost.   Dumb move. 

 

We see Gus Bradley up close, all the time, and so we see all the mistakes and all the dumb moves, but the truth is, every coach makes plenty of mistakes.  

 

What Gus needs is better players.   I think we've finally got them, so this is his chance to prove himself.   But I'm not going to say we went 5-11 last year because of the coaching.  

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