Quote:You can't compare Carr to Bortles. It's a slap in Carr's face. They're two completely different quarterbacks. Carr is up to the LOS, adjusting blocking assignments, lining his players up, changing plays, calling out blitzes and he just overall looks way more poised and under control of things inside the pocket. He played an outstanding game of football today despite the rest of the team around him doing everything it could to lose it with the penalties. He threw the football 59 times today without an interception. Has Bortles ever gone longer than 59 pass attempts since his NFL debut without throwing an interception or fumbling it away? I highly, highly doubt it. You can chalk it up to the lack of defense and running game. But make no mistake. Your quarterback is the main player on your roster touching the football more than anybody else. And the quarterback has to sometimes make magic out of lunch meat out there. Highly drafted and touted quarterbacks make average players look good or even great. It doesn't work any other way.


As far as Caldwell. Again, you can say coulda, woulda and shoulda. It still doesn't take away the fact that arguably 90% of the NFL can say the same exact thing with each draft class. I think our coaching is still horrendous no matter what we have on this roster. And my reason being behind that is because the free agents that he signed up were very good at what they did from their previous location. So to me that's a sign of improper coaching and utilization. You can't tell me that a guy like Malik Jackson who reeled off two solid years in Denver on a Superbowl caliber defense is garbage. You can't tell me a player like Julius Thomas who at the time in Denver looked to be the second coming of Antonio Gates is garbage. You can't tell me Tashaun Gipson who was one of the very few good and rare players Cleveland ever had is garbage. You can't tell me Chris Ivory, who is coming off of his best career season yet when he left the Jets is garbage.


There is something severely wrong with this coaching staff. They don't know how to properly game plan. They don't know how to make in-game or half-time adjustments. They don't appear to try and adapt their schemes to fit what their roster is more suitable at doing effectively. They've tried to pigeon hole players into roles that don't fit them. And that's not what a winning franchise does. That's not what a winning coaching staff does. You adapt or die in this sport. That's the honest to god truth. Adapt or die. This staff doesn't have the ability to do that with this football team. We've seen coaches go into teams similar to ours. Most recent example for me would be the 49ers under Jim Harbaugh. The 49ers struggled for years until he arrived. He gets there. And all of a sudden. The defense shows up. The running game shows up. And he manages to revive Alex Smith's career and gets it done with Kaepernick.


It takes a lot to win in the NFL. But it absolutely takes three things. An adaptable general manager. A versatile and intelligent head coach that knows how to use his chess pieces on the board. And an engineer at the quarterback position that fit's that general manager's adaptability and is capable of executing his versatile and intelligent head coach's mission and beliefs.


It's that simple when you put it on paper. But it's easier said than done.