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5 - 11.  We'll see what happens in FA and the draft.

The O-line and QB have to be better.  I expect that they will be. 

 

As far as record is concerned…  it's stoopid early to guess, but I wouldn't be surprised if they won 5, and I wouldn't be surprised if they won 10. 

 

There's just so much we don't know at this point. 

The Jags will play the AFC South (of course) two games against:

• Indy
  
• Houston
  
• Tennessee
  

The AFC East:

• New England
  
• Buffalo
  
• Miami
  
• NYJets
  

The NFC South:

• Carolina
  
• New Orleans
  
• Atlanta
  
• Tampa Bay
  

AFC 3rd place finishers

• San Diego
  
• Baltimore
  

 

The six teams in bold are teams that have struggled to finish .500 over the last five years. The problem is that the Jags are actually in that same group. 

 

There's nothing saying the Jags can't go from "worst to first" happens all the time in the NFL & believe it or not, I think you have the tools to do it. I just don't think it's going to happen. Especially not this year because you're playing some of the better teams in the league... New England, Indy, Baltimore, San Diego & who knows what the NFC South is going to look like next season. 

 

But those five teams, you should beat. Six games, Tennessee twice. So if I were the owner, those six games are the games I'm going to be judging my franchise on. If we don't win one, I'm going to want to know why not. & I'm going to want some real answers. 

 

The other ten games... we better win some of them too. I'd expect 2-4 against the NFC South. We've got problems, they've got problems, I'm not going to accept all four of those teams fixing their problems enough to where we don't win two of those games. 

 

There's no reason you shouldn't expect to win a game against the Texans & the Colts. They aren't that good, same with San Diego. Those five games can go either way, again... I would be very upset if we don't win at least one of those. 

 

Baltimore & New England... I know those are long shots. I expect to win, I expect to be competitive, but if the Jags don't win, I'm not too bent out of shape. 

 

So if I were Khan, I'm expecting between 8 & 10 wins. The further below eight, the more upset I would be. 

If Bortles and Olson shape up like we hope they do and become average, I could see between 7-9 and 9-7. However, this is the Jaguars were talking about, so I am gonna say 4-12 and the coaching staffs is wiped clean.

Six wins would leave the Jaguars with a better standing than several past seasons. I'd say people are safe if they can get to 6-10, but five wins is too reminiscent of past failure and may not cut it.

Who knows without seeing which players are brought in.  By virtue of rookies and young vets progressing alone, I'd expect some marginal improvement - maybe from 15 to 18 or 19 points per game.

I think if the team is just 10 points better per game, they can be an 8-8 team. I don't think that is much of a stretch.

Quote:I am expecting 5-11. If that. They're not fooling me this year like they did last offseason, not that anything they've done this offseason so far gives me confidence anyway.

Dude.

Quote:It's amazing how people can so definitively predict next season's record when free agency -- 60 million in space -- and the draft are still months away. Blows my mind.

 

 A blown mind CAN be a beautiful thing.

I believe the aim for improvement in the record for the 2015 season is in the 7 to 9 win range.

Without offseason acquisitions and banking on the development of our players I'm saying 7-9 or 8-8

Quote:Early last year Blaine was putting up some great stats if you were to overlook the INTs, but you can't. As a result they pulled him way back until his stats resembled those of Henne and Gabbert, but he stopped throwing the INTs. As he grows learning how to not throw INTs, I'm expecting he'll return to his putting up those impressively high stats from his early days but without those gut-wrenching INTs. I'm sure it's just a matter of time for this to happen.

you mean Blake right?

Quote:I am expecting 5-11. If that. They're not fooling me this year like they did last offseason, not that anything they've done this offseason so far gives me confidence anyway.

 

Considering the only thing they've done this "offseason" is fire one coach and hire two others, I'd say you're expecting too much to happen before the team can sign free agents.  The free agent period doesn't start until march so there'll probably not be much happening until then.  

Quote:you mean Blake right?

 

 

Ugh... yeah, Blake.


 

I'll go back and edit that.

Whoever has the best QB play between the Jags/Tacks/Tinhorns should have a winning record.


Bortles vs Mallet/Mettenberger/Fitzpatrick/FAs/Rookies


Will the Fivehead show up in a Tinhorn uniform?


Should be interesting to watch...

I think if the O-line improves AND we run a more up-tempo style offense that suits Bortles' style we could contend for a playoff spot. I wouldn't be surprised though if we ended up drafting in the top 5 again and Gus is let go. We haven't exactly looked as up-and-coming as some say. Wishful thinking only goes so far.

Finally a true Ponce de Leon cup where we take on all Florida teams. That alone is reason to get excited!


Bring the PDL Cup back home, Gus!!

Hmmm. My crystal ball doesn't seem to be able to focus on events in the future well enough to be able to definitively make a prediction. That being so, my best guess would be for us to finish the 2015 season around 6-10. I think making it to 8-8 would be awesome improvement for this team, but given our situation with a new OC, a questionable 0-line and the resulting questionable quarterback, I think we're realistically looking at reaching 6-10... maybe. I just don't see enough play makers on the field for us (yet) to get us much higher; but maybe that'll change this coming draft and FA. We'll see.

I think based just solely on the current team without any sort of FA signing or Draft pick, but considering natural youth development, 4-12 would be the likely result. Add in that we are hoping for another good draft where we find some good quality guys like recently, 5-11 would be a decent guess. Now the true sticking point is the free agency. Do we sign Bryan Bulaga or Bryan Bologna? Do we sign Devin McCourty or Devin can't stay out of courty? Do we sign Charles Clay or Charles made of clay? Basically, do we sign high quality players in positions of needs, or do we reach on players with off-field issues, are injury prone and just flat out aren't good players? Depending on how many guys we sign and the quality of the players signed factored in with current player development and another quality draft, 7-9 would be a realistic goal with very promising signs for future years.

Quote: Do we sign Bryan Bulaga or Bryan Bologna? Do we sign Devin McCourty or Devin can't stay out of courty? Do we sign Charles Clay or Charles made of clay?