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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
It's hard to win with a fanbase that doesn't give a !@#$.
Football is so much about emotion and Bradley's style fed off it. In Jacksonville he just won't have that.
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Disagreed. There were 12 teams with worse attendance than Jacksonville this year. Two of those teams (Cincinnati, Minnesota) made the playoffs. Two more (Chicago, Pittsburgh) narrowly missed out.
Last year, Cincinnati was dead last in attendance and made the playoffs. In 2008, the two Super Bowl teams (Arizona and Pittsburgh) were 24th and 28th in attendance respectively.
Ever since JerryWorld opened up, Dallas has routinely led the league in attendance. Those big crowds haven't stopped Romo and Garrett from choking.
The attendance thing with Jacksonville is overplayed. The real issue is that they drastically misjudged the market at the beginning and built an oversized stadium, hence the tarps. EverBank Field is the 27th-largest football stadium in the country, and that's counting both college and pro football. There's no reason why a market as small as Jacksonville needs a stadium that's almost as big as Dallas' and bigger than the stadiums in Denver, Atlanta, Houston, San Francisco, Philly, Seattle, St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago, etc.