Quote:I took his comment as what NY said. He made a quick comment "it was like that with gus", then realized it could have been taken out of context given how the question was phrased and then clarified. There's an article or comment waaaaay back when Gus was hired about how Dave and Gus were basically in the room for 12 hours talking about their plan, scheme, etc. When you spend that much time with the candidate before hiring him, you didn't get "talked" into it, you made your own decision.

 

And clearly, based on Dave's facial expressions today, letting Gus go was difficult for him. 

 

There's a lot of hate towards Gus, and perhaps rightfully so because of the record. But take a look and listen to Dave, Doug, and players like Miller, Myers, McCray, etc. These guys respected Gus and are genuinely hurt that they've let him down.

 

Good points. At least the Jaguars had a coach with class and wasn't a jerk (which may have been easy to become as the loses piled up).

 

I tend to think of the assistants, who need to scramble to find jobs for next year - even though they had to see this coming. 2016 season is not the best thing to have on a resume. There may be a lot of phone calls to places like West Texas State. And their families get to move somewhere else. Again.

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