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I'm not too concerned. Lots of folks told me that Carroll would really suck too. Coaches learn and improve just like players.
Different era with far less player movement and no salary cap. Organizations could accumulate great players and keep them for a long period of time. Not so much now. Now you have to be able to coach up players quickly, and adjust to changing rosters. Gus is not showing much inclination to be able to do this. If you want to share some of the great things Gus has done so far in his time with Jacksonville feel free. I don't follow them that closely.
Dave Campo? Richie Kotite? You guys are killing me here. Bradley may not be quite that bad, but for the love of Hurns, Robinson and Bortles, can they get back to their 2015 offense? Cause this 25 completions for 190 yards sucks..Throw the ball downfield
How can any of us know this for sure? None of us were in meeting rooms. None of us were at practice.
But from Childress we did get those awesome "Chilly Reports".
I totally agree that Ownership and General Managers have a huge influence on a coach's success or failure. And I would say that Bradley came to an organization that did not have a whole lot of talent when he got there. So I give him a pass on year one (4-12). He then brought in the rookie franchise QB in year two, so I will even give him a pass on that year (3-13). By year 3, we should have seen some progress. However, even though the offense has played better, the defense has been bad all three years, ranked 28th, 26th, and 31st in points allowed. This led to a 5-11 record. Bradley is a defensive coach. Even if the talent has been marginal, should there not have been some progress on that side of the ball? Was Bradley successful as a DC in Seattle just because he had a tremendous amount of talent on that defense? His record seems to support that.
Here's the thing. He's still trying to play the same defense that he played at Seattle. Since he left, Seattle has changed their scheme slightly and adapted to their personnel.
Gus Bradley: 12-39, .235 winning %
Is he the coach who was asked...What do you think about teams execution? With him responding...."I am all for it".
I maintain that the 1991 defense is one of the best in NFL history, only to be ruined by the offense led by Kotite. Yes, injuries at QB really hurt (Cunningham went down for the season in week 1, leaving an over the hill McMahon, a rookie QB in Brad Goebal, and washed up back-ups in Jeff Kemp and Pat Ryun to handle the QB duties the rest of the season). But Kotite insisted on starting a rookie RB (James Joseph) and they had a 3.1 yards per attempt rushing the ball which was 28th in the league. The Eagles went 10-6 that year and missed the playoffs. Keep in mind that the Cowboys great offense was just starting to jell that year (they went 11-5) and the Eagles held them to 90 yards of offense and sacked Troy Aikman 11 times in their first meeting in Dallas. A thorough butt kicking.
Kotite lost his last 7 games with the Eagles, and thus was 4-35 in his last 39 games coached.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers head football coach John McKay (1923-2001) was asked by a reporter after a loss what he thought about the execution of the team’s offense. “I’m in favor of it (execution—ed.),” McKay replied. The joke quickly became a sports classic.
For what it's worth, in that one season, with a 3-13 record, Williamson's team beat a team with one of the all time great defenses. That team and coach? The 1991 Philadelphia Eagles and coach Rich Kotite.
