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Done with Jay

I love this excuse that people use after a loss like this..."it's up to the players themselves to execute."

This is true, but you keep giving Jay a pass. Too many people do...for the sake of "stability". Nothing about how this team has performed under Gruden is "stable"...except for the fact that we are steadily mediocre.

Teams take on the personality of their coach. So a team that is inconsistent, erratic, doesn't execute, is unprepared, caught off-guard, never ready for primetime, and makes inexplicable and mind-numbing mistakes time and time again...that can be traced back to the fact that our head coach is inconsistent, erratic, doesn't execute, is unprepared, caught off-guard, never ready for primetime, and makes inexplicable and mind-numbing mistakes time and time again.

I've been in this group for a while. I was the guy defending Gruden before, talking about "hey, he led us to back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in 19 years!". During our 2-1 start, I decided to suspend my criticism that began with last year's repeated episodes of garbage play. He had "his QB" and could finally run "his system", supposedly. We had that veteran presence in the locker room that, combined with our supposed genius head coach, would make us real contenders. It surfaced a bit when we came out flatter than a pre-teen girl's chest against the Colts, but I figured that happens in today's NFL once in a while. Certainly after making a statement against the Packers (well, for a half, at least), we should heal up over the bye week and come out fresh and ready to go toe-to-toe with a Saints team that had a lot of talent, but a lot of inconsistencies, especially on defense.

Instead, we come out and not only shit the bed, but puked on it, rolled around, and had a seizure in that mess.

That was embarrassing last night. That was a disheartening loss. This team has a long way to go to think they are really a division-leading team. It's not for lack of talent either. So where does the culpability lie? It lies with the man who is supposed to have this team ready to play. Is New Orleans a better team than us, talent-wise? Maybe, but not 43-19 better.

"but Agent C, it was destined to be this way with Drew Brees setting the record and all that".

BS, good teams go out and try to spoil history. They don't just roll over and let it happen. Or, you spoil individual history by raining on their parade with a win.

Jay Gruden just isn't that good of a coach. Hell, his brother has a Super Bowl ring that, in all honesty, should be resized and placed on Tony Dungy's hand. Jay might be a decent OC if he works under an HC that can filter his bullshit ideas. That was obviously the case in Cincy.

In short... #firegruden