Drafting Blaine Gabbert, and if I had any say in it I would have taken Watt
Just one move? That's an easy choice. Undo the decision to name Gene Smith General Manager of the franchise.
That lead to four years of bad decisions.
Quote:Just one move? That's an easy choice. Undo the decision to name Gene Smith General Manager of the franchise.
That lead to four years of bad decisions.
This is what I immediately thought as well.
Quote:Just one move? That's an easy choice. Undo the decision to name Gene Smith General Manager of the franchise.
That lead to four years of bad decisions.
+1
Quote:This is what I immediately thought as well.
I can't disagree with yall. I sure hope Justin Blackmon pick works out well though. Go Jaguars
Quote:Drafting Blaine Gabbert, and if I had any say in it I would have taken Watt
This one would be my choice too. Hopefully we don't repeat, I don't want anyone who has just got 'potential' in our pick. There are too many sure looking elite players to do this. Give me Watkins, or Evans, or even Clowney. Don't take any QB that high unless you are very sure IMO.
There are so many moves I would undo, it's not funny.
Gabbert
Alualu
RJ Soward
Harvey
To go back a long time ago.
We drafted Eric Westmorland right before WR Steve Smith.
This team has a whole history of terrible moves.
Quote:This team has a whole history of terrible moves.
Doesn't every team?
My answer would be firing Coughlin. Weaver should've kept him on to undo the mess. It couldn't have been worse than the next decade of mediocrity.
Quote:Doesn't every team?
My answer would be firing Coughlin. Weaver should've kept him on to undo the mess. It couldn't have been worse than the next decade of mediocrity.
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Easy. Draft Roethlisberger back in 2004. The Jaguars would be in the middle of a decade of utter excellence and probably would have won a Superbowl or two while Stroud and Henderson were still dominant.
After that the next best "undo" would be taking Rodgers instead of Matt Jones.
Then the next best undo would be hiring a good GM from outside of the organization instead of Gene "significant part of the failures so far" Smith.
If it couldn't be any of those things It'd be taking JJ Watt instead of Gabbert.
Quote:Doesn't every team?
My answer would be firing Coughlin. Weaver should've kept him on to undo the mess. It couldn't have been worse than the next decade of mediocrity.
Sure they do. But that wasn't the question.
The combination of Shack Harris and Garrard's outrageous contract and him giving up the entire draft for Harvey, which lead to JDR's numerous chance after chance which ended with him getting the can and Gene Smith getting the con and Smith's decision to hire Mike Mularkey.......
Shack wasn't a smart move but that guy Gene really wrecked us. Bad move after bad move. The only positive from Gene was that we got to see Murlarkey show his inner athlete with that magnificent clip board heave. That alone was almost worth the many years he set us back.
The Derek Harvey trade/draft.
Forcing the Leftwich pick, It really all snowballs from there. Would replace that with picking Suggs, starting Brunell for 1 more year, then drafting Big Ben in the next year's draft.
Not forfeiting the 1st round pick annually going back to Byron Leftwich's draft year