The Gus Bus Drops Below 50
ALL ABORT THE GUS BUS BEEP BEEP
So much for all that Jags pre-season hype huh. I thought Gus Bradley should have been fired last season (I wrote a blog post on a comic somewhere about how I think coaches deserve a 3 year grace period and if after 3 years things don’t show a reasonable improvement then it’s probably time to move on). I can’t find the comic where I said it, but I still believe that. Gus took over a complete mess and deserved maybe a little more time and grace than normal, but that grace period ended this offseason because the Jags finally looked primed to compete.
The argument wasn’t hard to see. They “won” the draft. They get people back healthy. Bort looked like he was putting it together towards the back half of last season. They picked up an actual runningback in Chris Ivory (Who hasn’t played yet due to injury, so that’s something of note). The Jags sat ready to pounce all over a weak division. And they are 0-3 in classic can’t finish a game heartbreak fashion. They held their own against the Packers, then failed at the end but we thought they might be okay. The Packers are good. Then they crumpled against a San Diego team that has, outside that game, failed miserably at the end of two other games. But it was in San Diego. Maybe it was a bad day. Then, at home, against a very questionable 2-0 Ravens team, they once again couldn’t get it done, and now the fans want blood. The grace period is over. Gus is extremely positive in everything but the win column and patience has run out. I can’t say I blame them.
There is still time to salvage the season. The AFC South is still terrible. The Titans are still a bunch of Mularkey. The Texans look the best, but holy lol did you see Brock Lobster against the Pats? The Colts are kind of a mystery, a team that should be okay on paper but feel like it’s rotting from the inside somehow in a way I can’t explain. This is a tough call, but for the moment, they should probably keep him and wait a few weeks. When you fire a coach midseason it’s basically a give up play, like calling a draw on 3rd and 25 deep in your own territory. At the same time do the Jags fans want to risk sitting through more weeks of this nonsense when they could cut the cord now and see what someone else can do with a free season?
We need Jackson De Ville more than ever come back Curtis
I feel so bad for Jags fans
No doubt. I hope they both get to see their team have some success eventually.
Probably have shifted to London by then.
I was there at the game versus the Ravens, and boy could you hear the #FireGus chants after the interception. From our side in Duval, most of us either want him gone now or after another loss next week in London. Tbh the Jags could be 2-1, but of course us Jags fans come to realize quickly that Gus can’t coach at all.
If we fire Gus, we can let Doug Marrone be our interim coach. He did coach a 9-7 Bills team, so he qualifies as better than Gus by a long shot.
“A very questionable 2-0 Ravens team”
Hey, c’mon!
Bills by 6 at home, Had to come back from 17 points down vs. Cleveland, 1 point wins in 5 turnover game vs. Jags.
20 points against the Browns, not 17. And but for McCown playing three quarters with a broken collarbone and the first PAT-safety since the league implemented that rule, that wouldn’t even have happened.
The playcalling after those three turnovers was beyond abysmal. Gus doesn’t play to win. He simply doesn’t.
All my optimism for the season has turned to dread and shame.
I was on Gus Bus until this season. With the talent on this team, the Jags should be 2-1 and 0-3–that’s all on poor coaching, play calling and lack of discipline (stupid penalties).
Gus is a great and likeable guy but is just not getting it done as a Head Coach. It’s time for him to go.
The Jaguars right now remind me of the 2010 49ers. Awful but with a great roster, and with the right coach could probably start winning 10+ games immediately and making playoff runs.
But if Bradley is fired, Dan Quinn will be the only thumb looking Pete Carroll disciple as a head coach.
Man the AFC south has turned into total shit, I thought it was bad last year, man.
1. Texans (2-1): #1 Pass denfense don’t mean shit if you turn the ball over on special teams twice in your own redzone
2. Titans (1-2): They only have a win because the Refs robbed the Lions of 3 TDs
3. Colts (1-2): they are a blown coverage away from 0-3
4. Jaguars (0-3): The Jags have won the offseason how many times?
The 2012 Texans are the only AFC South team to win at least 12 games in the last 6 seasons. That being said, it’s interesting that the 2014 Cowboys are the only 12-win team in the NFCE in the same time frame.
And even then, that Houston team was a paper tiger to say the least, once Mike McCarthy found out Gary Kubiak back in week 11 (The texans were 10-0 mind you), everyone found a way to beat Houston.
We lost to the Titans by one point in week 17 of that season, if we had one it, we would have been the #1 seed in the AFC
Yet the NFC East has more primetime games than any other divisions
Because NFC East football is always an entertaining clusterfuck. Each team being based in a big media market helps too.
Even now, with the Wattage turned down on the Texans defense, I still see them winning the division. They’ll just be 8-8 or 7-9, instead of 11-5.
To think 9 seasons ago we were talking about this being the best division ever with 13-3 indy (2 seed; defending champ), 11-5 J’ville (5 seed; 2nd 10+ win season in 3 years; last winning season to date; tied with 07 Pats at half on road in div. round), 10-6 Tennessee (6 seed; 1 year away from a league best 13-3), and 8-8 Houston (starting 4 year streak with Schaub of 8-8).
The Jags are like a semi-reverse of the pre-Kurt late 90’s rams. Except instead of losing 1 game more each year (7-9 in 1995, 5-11 in 97, 4-12 in 98). While the Jags have won 1 more game each year (2-14 in 2012, 3-13 in 13, 4-12 in 14, 5-11 last year, probably 6-10 this year)
Except they went 4-12 in 13 and 3-13 in 14.
I’m rooting for another firing on the plane ride back from London
I think this is the referenced comic commentary… http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/unemployed-coaches/
Last time I went to applebees (6 years ago), I got green shit from the bbq boneless wings.
Did you watch Speed on IFC this weekend?