Three years ago when Gus Bradley first became the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, fans grew accustomed to hearing the term “rookie mistakes” a lot. The young team was still learning and that was expected, so the lack of discipline in assignments and execution was normal.
Over the last three seasons we had all hoped to hear that term disappear.
Unfortunately, it hasn’t disappeared, it has simply morphed into “lack of discipline” under Bradley’s tenure. This isn’t to say there hasn’t been improvement (there has) but there is still this lingering problem for a team that is much better and should no longer be having rookie mistake type problems.