I am giving Gus a five to six win mark this year. I could see Bill Belichick leading this team to an above average record with nine to ten wins this year just with the offensive talent alone. I could see Tom Coughlin getting this team to seven or eight wins this year with possibly having us competing for the division lead or 5th seed in 2017.

 

Gus Bradley has never shown anything relatively close to a competent and capable headcoach in his fifty career games. Even when Bill started out in Cleveland. And even when Tom started out here in Jacksonville. You could see "it" on the football field and during practices. Tom took a new start up franchise in 1995 of a band of outcasts, unwanted players, and a few draft classes and he went from 4 - 12 in our first season to a 9 - 7 conference play-off team in 1996. He'd then go onto win consistently for the next three years. He eventually hit a wall with talent but once you see a coach capable of reeling off a four year win streak with two conference appearances. Apparently, he's capable of getting it done. He proved that with the Giants just a few years later. 

 

Bill Belicheck in Cleveland at the time had steadily put together a roster that was capable of winning. He inherited a 3 - 13 team and After flirting with .500 (6-10, 7-9, 7-9) during his first three years with the Browns. In year four, they jumped up to an 11 - 5 record and a play-off spot. And had it not been for the big move from Cleveland to Baltimore in 1995 they may have never lapsed and who knows what could have happened there. 

 

My biggest point is that. Despite the roster moves, the personnel, the coaching changes, etc. Bradley has shown ZERO progress in some of the basic fundamentals of football on this team. It's STILL undisciplined. And a man whose niche was carved out based on DEFENSE. It's pretty sad that it's NEVER improved. We've been at the bottom of the NFL on defense since he's been here. 

 

2013 - 28th in PTS allowed - 27th in YDS allowed

2014 - 26th in PTS allowed - 26th in YDS allowed

2015 - 31st in PTS allowed - 24th in YDS allowed

2016 - 29th in PTS allowed - 12th in YDS allowed (Only two games though, give it time)

 

Don't even get me started on the offense. 2013 - 2014 we were at the bottom of the NFL in PTS and YDS. Last year we finally broke about even and finished in 14th and 18th in PTS and YDS per game. This year we still have a lot of work to do. But I have seen, again, ZERO signs or hints that this man is capable of leading any capable roster that's front loaded and back loaded with talent. He stinks. 

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