Gus Bradley: Coaches Challenge Overview
Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Gus Bradley’s challenges have been lackluster and he looks to improve in 2016.
Since 1999 the coach’s challenge has been used to keep or overturn a ruling on the field. Each game a head coach is given two challenges that can be used by throwing a red flag on the field before the start of the next play. Challenges can be a split second decision and be used for anything from confirming a missed touchdown to challenging the spot of the ball.
In Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Gus Bradley’s first two years with the team he challenged a total of seven times each season. Each time he was able to overturn two challenges and five other times the calls were upheld.
Overall in the first two seasons he has gone four of 14 (28.6%), showing there is some work that needs to be done.
Just for some comparison, other 2013 head coach hires Mike McCoy of the San Diego Chargers had four upheld and four overturned during his first two years and in Doug Marrone’s time with the Buffalo Bills he had a challenge record of six upheld and six overturned.
Bradley’s first two seasons weren’t the best when compared to his peers but overall I wasn’t that worried when I looked at that statistics, hopefully learning from those opportunities gives Bradley more situational awareness with the challenge flag.
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Has he improved recently?
This previous season Bradley did a little better and was able to get two out of the five of his challenges overturned. The two challenges that were overturned ended up giving the Jaguars first downs and were key to keeping those drive alive. It looks like Bradley was able to improve from the previous years and it will be a test going forward to see if he can keep it up.
Personally to see those low percentages it’s clear that there is work that needs to be done. Whether it’s using them better situationally or getting help from now-Jags coach Doug Marrone (just an idea). Look for coach Bradley to improve with the challenge flag during the 2016 season