Quote:http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/10/31/oakla...peter-king

Well, Peter King didn't tell us much that we weren't already painfully aware of. Maybe I shouldn't say 'painfully' aware of though; by the time we played on Thursday night football the writing was already on the wall. All the pathetic effort against the tacks did was show everybody nationwide (as if they didn't already know) just how bad we are. Really, that game was just a waste of a Thursday night football slot; we would've all been better off watching PBS or something.

 

I have very little hope that the team will get things turned around this season now. 2016 will go down as another terrible season for the Jags. We have the talent on the field now (at least on paper) except possibly at the most key position of quarterback. Bortles was brought here with a known weakness in his passing technique and now we're paying the price for it. It wouldn't sting so bad if he hadn't shown flashes of greatness at times last season. We now know that those flashes were really a fluke since the Allens weren't getting covered then like they are now.

 

Blake has become the worse of Byron Leftwich (technique) and Blaine Gabbert (poise) simultaneously... gads!

 

Olson was part of the problem but he shouldn't have been brought here to begin with; but then again, much of the same thing could also be said about Blake Bortles and Gus Bradley. There's really not much left to say about Gus Bradley; at this point I'm a little surprised that he's still here. Nevertheless, I have to think that there is massive research and negotiating going on in the way of a head coach search. Dave Caldwell gets a mulligan on his first head coach failure... he won't get another.

 

While I understand the majority of fans wanting Gus fired already, I can also see the point of retaining him for the rest of the season. For starters, the season is a wash; no interim coach is going to miraculously turn it around. Therefore, there is no practical benefit to firing Gus this red hot second. On the other hand, it is thought by some that firing Gus mid-season might send the wrong kind of message to prospective head coach candidates. I get this, but I'm not sure if I agree with it. It seems to me that we've been sending the wrong message retaining Gus this long. 'Come to Jacksonville and produce results (or not) and you'll still have a high paying job for years' is the message that I think is being sent. Imho, a coaching candidate who's afraid to come here cause he might get fired if he doesn't produce results in a reasonable amount of time isn't the guy we wanted anyway!

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