Consider, if you will....

as of 8:33am on Sunday, November 20, 2016 the Jags record for this season rest uneasily at 2-7. They are scheduled to play the lions this afternoon in a game that most anticipate that the Jags will lose handily, making their record 2-8. There are 16 games scheduled for normal season play, with 6 games left after today's anticipated defeat. Therefore, for the Jags to achieve the 'dizzying' goal of an 8-8 season, they would have to win every game left on the schedule after today! 

 

Many have considered the achievement of at least an 8-8 record this season to be the 'benchmark' for keeping Gus Bradley as the head coach. Up until the point that we reach the anticipated 2-8 record this afternoon, Bradley has had, at least mathematically speaking, some 'slack' to work around. After today the slack is gone; if we reach 2-9 it is impossible for us to reach at least an 8-8 record and there is no objective reason for retaining Bradley here as the HC.

 

The odds of the Jags running the rest of the season is... well, too large to put any hope in. Clearly at this point, Gus Bradley has failed to get the job done as HC and IMHO may have instilled the wrong kind of 'mentality' into this football team in order for them to become 'actual' winners in the NFL. The sooner he is removed as HC, the more quickly the recovery of this teams psyche can begin. 

 

Caldwell gets a 'mulligan' for selecting Bradley as the HC this time... no more mulligans for Dave now.

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