Quote:Thank you. It's because of the current confusion we're experiencing that I thought it would be a good idea to fire Gus after 2014, and really badly wanted him fired after 2015. When you clearly have a coach which isn't developing players or gameplanning you make it really hard to judge your team's talent acquisition, and that's where we're at right now. The team just canned the worst head coach of all time and has a situation on its hands where it can't tell what it has in a lot of player groups years into their careers.

 

Under Gus the team never moved forward together. When he was handed exceptionally good players at certain things those players would excel in isolation, but it was never manifested into team success. Good examples are Bortles, Telvin, and Allen Robinson in 2015, and Jalen Ramsey in 2016. Those players excelled in an island so to speak, with Telvin making a lot of big impact stops in the run game, Allen getting a lot of long passes and TDs, and Ramsey locking down every team's best WR, but there was never any gameplanning around the team's strengths, or toward defeating other teams' strengths, so great individual efforts in seasons went utterly wasted.

 

The Jaguars repeatedly allowed teams to convert long 3rd downs after guys like Telvin and Ramsey made teams face long 3rd downs, and the defense and lack of run game let teams repeatedly come back when Bortles and the offense did well enough in 4th quarters to win games.

 

Will Bortles continue to ascend and become a real top tier type of QB? And I mean of the Rodgers/Brady/Brees type, not the lesser, but highly thought of Roethlisberger type, who for some reason hasn't been lambasted for throwing as many or more INTERCEPTIONS as Bortles has. (16 interceptions in 12 games 2015, 13 interceptions in 14 games 2016)

 

We'll just have to wait and see, but the first returns under a head coach that was actually game planning were promising.