James Laverance
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Please excuse the History of Hockey posts; this is actually the Redskins 2017 season thread.
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Cannot understand why anybody would want Bradley over Pettine. We do not have the talent to make a Legion of Boom. Bradley's D sucked before the Sherman/Wagner draft and has been subpar in Jacksonville with more talent than we have here. Pettine's defenses with Buffalo/Jets were awesome, and even the Browns D was decent with nobody.
Pettine >>>> Bradley
When Pete Carroll returned to the NFL seven years ago, he didn’t just want to prove he could win in a league that had fired him twice. The Seattle Seahawks coach had grander thoughts, and at the top of his list was the desire to turn a lifetime of defensive knowledge into a sustainable championship system.
To accomplish this, he needed a defensive coordinator to help him develop, translate and teach all these loose thoughts.
He found that coordinator nervously waiting in limbo as power transitioned from fired coach Jim Mora to Carroll: Gus Bradley.
The first thing you need to understand about Bradley, who interviewed Wednesday to run the Washington Redskins’ defense, is that he was the most important lieutenant in engineering the most influential defensive creation in this pass-centric era of the NFL. And Bradley did it while learning Carroll’s mismatched concepts on the fly.
“He’s the best teacher I’ve ever been around,” Carroll once told me about Bradley. “He’s so thorough, so thoughtful, and he’ll go to such lengths to find ways to make sense of the information so the guys can understand it in practical ways. It doesn’t matter how good we teach. It’s how well they learn. I think that connection is really clear with Gus. He’s great at it.”
Perhaps you must meet Bradley to comprehend what he brings. He’s an upbeat, energetic coach who commands respect without screaming and cursing. Seahawks players used to compare his manner to Tony Dungy, only he can be much more spirited. Fired coordinator Joe Barry acted similarly, and his exuberance helped elevate the defense’s effort to an acceptable level. But Bradley combines his personality with better play-calling and teaching.
Cannot understand why anybody would want Bradley over Pettine. We do not have the talent to make a Legion of Boom. Bradley's D sucked before the Sherman/Wagner draft and has been subpar in Jacksonville with more talent than we have here. Pettine's defenses with Buffalo/Jets were awesome, and even the Browns D was decent with nobody.
Pettine >>>> Bradley
Jacksonville's defense was ranked 6th. How is that subpar? I will repost what I had on Bradley from the last thread. It showed just how important Bradley was to the defense that was built in SEA.
I will take Carroll's word on it. I want Bradley.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html?utm_term=.b731a3c3a3ed
According to Keim and Cooley, Pettine is the opposite, he is a screamer. My college HC was a screamer and most of us players tuned him out, payed more attention to our coordinators and positions coaches. Not a big fan of screamers. Also, Pettine comes from the Rex Ryan coaching tree. Another no thanks.
If it's a promotion they usually won't deny permission. Lateral move yes.
Should of been powder blue and yellow from the start. Dumb.
Should of been powder blue and yellow from the start. Dumb.
Bradley getting some hate from fan base. Not Barry level but still.
Pettine has best fan support.
Well they think Bradley is overrated and his d wasn't that good in Jacksonville.
Clearly he only knows offense.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...location-papers-to-move-from-oakland-to-vegas
Raiders starting process of moving to Vegas
The information is out there to refute these claims. I've posted a number of times on here with some of that information. Google is their friend.