03-20-2018, 12:38 PM
without Arob and Hurns we can call more running plays. which is what they want to do. there is no madden air it out here. this is what we are a running team with limited passing. every move has been to fortify this principle.
(03-20-2018, 12:35 PM)Achilles Wrote: [ -> ](03-20-2018, 12:26 PM)Diz Wrote: [ -> ]Didn't skip a beat? No drop off? From what? The first 2 offensive plays of the regular season? We lost A Rob basically IMMEDIATELY.
I'm sorry... did we win the Super Bowl? No? Would a true #1 WR who demands attention and would have prevented teams from completely stacking the box have helped? Yeah? Hmm... I suppose maybe we DID need him to get past New England... since... you know... we didn't.... mostly because our offense couldn't move the ball in the 2nd half. A Rob wouldn't have helped with that at all, though.
A Rob is old news though.
Hurns... I just don't understand the cut. The timing of it leaves me baffled. Had they done so at the start of FA, sure, makes sense, freeing up room to sign guys with.
March 20th? Umm... ok... so you kept him on the roster during the FA Frenzy, preventing him from getting in on the action... and you didn't have to pay him any Guaranteed... and there's no one really imminent to be signed right now... so... what?
The only thing that I can come up with is we want to roll it over to next year, but again... why not just do it at the start of FA, have that money available, and allow Hurns to hit the market when it was hottest?
If you asked me to choose between Robinson, Hurns, and Lee... Lee would have been the first cut. Yet... somehow butterfingers go himself a sweet new deal, and both Allens are shown the door.
Having a hard time keeping the faith this month.
People keep saying that....we should have cut him earlier so we could have used the money to sign a different WR....
Maybe the jags front office likes the group we have? Maybe they don't want to invest anymore in WRs?
Such a short sighted stance coming from so many people.
I liked hurns. Great dude, played his heart out for us. I wish him luck wherever he lands, but the NFL isnt the place to let personal feelings override smart business. These guys are trying to win a championship.
(03-20-2018, 12:39 PM)SignMeUpAtQB Wrote: [ -> ](03-20-2018, 12:35 PM)Achilles Wrote: [ -> ]People keep saying that....we should have cut him earlier so we could have used the money to sign a different WR....
Maybe the jags front office likes the group we have? Maybe they don't want to invest anymore in WRs?
Such a short sighted stance coming from so many people.
I liked hurns. Great dude, played his heart out for us. I wish him luck wherever he lands, but the NFL isnt the place to let personal feelings override smart business. These guys are trying to win a championship.
Not necessarily to sign WRs, but perhaps to keep Colvin?
(03-20-2018, 12:42 PM)Achilles Wrote: [ -> ](03-20-2018, 12:39 PM)SignMeUpAtQB Wrote: [ -> ]Not necessarily to sign WRs, but perhaps to keep Colvin?
Again, there is a lot of "perhaps" to all these hypothetical scenarios. Perhaps, colvin wanted to play on the outside and be a #1 or #2 guy. So the money wouldn't have mattered.
We don't get to know these sides of the deals. Usually we know if there is strong interest, and then we know the money. As fans we don't know the team's or player's true thoughts on anything.
(03-20-2018, 12:27 PM)knarnn Wrote: [ -> ](03-20-2018, 12:02 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: [ -> ]Not if healthy and the last game we played he finally looked healthy and was our best WR
"If if's and but's...."
(03-20-2018, 11:35 AM)SignMeUpAtQB Wrote: [ -> ](03-20-2018, 11:29 AM)Caldrac Wrote: [ -> ]Easy. Defense keeps kicking [BLEEP] and taking names. And those rookies from last year should all be better now going into their 2nd years as a unit. Lee, Cole and Westbrook should be able to handle the load. Especially if we start using the TE position more and keep the ground game going. And again, I can't stress this enough. We still have the draft...
Our Offense at this point is absolutely terrible for a team trying to make it to the AFCCG again. We have the worst QB in our division/below average NFL QB, our receiving core are 2 Sophmores and an average guy in Lee that has had difficulties holding on to the ball last year. ASJ is one DUI away from being out of the league and he hasnt been able to reach his potential anywhere else. I mean come on, I understand our defense is good but we also lost Colvin and Poz and the other Teams in our division greatly improved their Defense as well as already having better offensive players in key positions.
I think "Run the ball and good D" just wont cut it in the NFL if you want to make it to a Superbowl imo. There are too many IFs (Cole and Westbrook need to get better, ASJ needs to have an immediate impact, Lee has to stop dropping the ball etc...). Thats not the healthiest way to build a contender...
(03-20-2018, 12:26 PM)Diz Wrote: [ -> ](03-20-2018, 11:40 AM)pirkster Wrote: [ -> ]This is simply poor optics.
Without ARob, we didn't skip a beat. No drop off. That's not to say we don't "need" anyone else... yes, we certainly did need a guard, and we got the best on the market.
We didn't "need" ARob. Would it have been nice to keep him. Certainly.
But he simply was not a "need."
That being said. You're smart enough to realize that there's no correlation even though that's what you're reaching for here with the misuse of the term "need" in your "We don't need anyone else!" strawman, which no one said ever.
Didn't skip a beat? No drop off? From what? The first 2 offensive plays of the regular season? We lost A Rob basically IMMEDIATELY.
I'm sorry... did we win the Super Bowl? No? Would a true #1 WR who demands attention and would have prevented teams from completely stacking the box have helped? Yeah? Hmm... I suppose maybe we DID need him to get past New England... since... you know... we didn't.... mostly because our offense couldn't move the ball in the 2nd half. A Rob wouldn't have helped with that at all, though.
A Rob is old news though.
Hurns... I just don't understand the cut. The timing of it leaves me baffled. Had they done so at the start of FA, sure, makes sense, freeing up room to sign guys with.
March 20th? Umm... ok... so you kept him on the roster during the FA Frenzy, preventing him from getting in on the action... and you didn't have to pay him any Guaranteed... and there's no one really imminent to be signed right now... so... what?
The only thing that I can come up with is we want to roll it over to next year, but again... why not just do it at the start of FA, have that money available, and allow Hurns to hit the market when it was hottest?
If you asked me to choose between Robinson, Hurns, and Lee... Lee would have been the first cut. Yet... somehow butterfingers go himself a sweet new deal, and both Allens are shown the door.
Having a hard time keeping the faith this month.
(03-20-2018, 12:48 PM)Rico Wrote: [ -> ](03-20-2018, 11:35 AM)SignMeUpAtQB Wrote: [ -> ]Our Offense at this point is absolutely terrible for a team trying to make it to the AFCCG again. We have the worst QB in our division/below average NFL QB, our receiving core are 2 Sophmores and an average guy in Lee that has had difficulties holding on to the ball last year. ASJ is one DUI away from being out of the league and he hasnt been able to reach his potential anywhere else. I mean come on, I understand our defense is good but we also lost Colvin and Poz and the other Teams in our division greatly improved their Defense as well as already having better offensive players in key positions.
I think "Run the ball and good D" just wont cut it in the NFL if you want to make it to a Superbowl imo. There are too many IFs (Cole and Westbrook need to get better, ASJ needs to have an immediate impact, Lee has to stop dropping the ball etc...). Thats not the healthiest way to build a contender...
This just makes zero sense. We have essentially the same skill players as last year plus an all-pro card added. Hurns barely played last year.
(03-20-2018, 10:38 AM)pirkster Wrote: [ -> ](03-20-2018, 10:32 AM)BklynJag Wrote: [ -> ]So would everyone agree we got worse at the WR position so far this offseason?
Common sense says...
If your fifth WR on the depth chart has a market in free agency - then your top four are pretty darn good.
(03-20-2018, 12:49 PM)SignMeUpAtQB Wrote: [ -> ](03-20-2018, 12:48 PM)Rico Wrote: [ -> ]This just makes zero sense. We have essentially the same skill players as last year plus an all-pro card added. Hurns barely played last year.
Hurns caught more passes than Moncrief...
(03-20-2018, 12:46 PM)SignMeUpAtQB Wrote: [ -> ](03-20-2018, 12:42 PM)Achilles Wrote: [ -> ]Again, there is a lot of "perhaps" to all these hypothetical scenarios. Perhaps, colvin wanted to play on the outside and be a #1 or #2 guy. So the money wouldn't have mattered.
We don't get to know these sides of the deals. Usually we know if there is strong interest, and then we know the money. As fans we don't know the team's or player's true thoughts on anything.
Are you kidding?! The exact same can be said about the argument that guys like Westbrook and Cole will "break out", becoming good receivers for us and replace Robinson and Hurns well. There is a thread right now debating whether or not Cole should be our Nr1 WR...
(03-20-2018, 12:49 PM)SignMeUpAtQB Wrote: [ -> ](03-20-2018, 12:48 PM)Rico Wrote: [ -> ]This just makes zero sense. We have essentially the same skill players as last year plus an all-pro card added. Hurns barely played last year.
Hurns caught more passes than Moncrief...
(03-20-2018, 12:26 PM)Diz Wrote: [ -> ](03-20-2018, 11:40 AM)pirkster Wrote: [ -> ]This is simply poor optics.
Without ARob, we didn't skip a beat. No drop off. That's not to say we don't "need" anyone else... yes, we certainly did need a guard, and we got the best on the market.
We didn't "need" ARob. Would it have been nice to keep him. Certainly.
But he simply was not a "need."
That being said. You're smart enough to realize that there's no correlation even though that's what you're reaching for here with the misuse of the term "need" in your "We don't need anyone else!" strawman, which no one said ever.
Didn't skip a beat? No drop off? From what? The first 2 offensive plays of the regular season? We lost A Rob basically IMMEDIATELY.
I'm sorry... did we win the Super Bowl? No? Would a true #1 WR who demands attention and would have prevented teams from completely stacking the box have helped? Yeah? Hmm... I suppose maybe we DID need him to get past New England... since... you know... we didn't.... mostly because our offense couldn't move the ball in the 2nd half. A Rob wouldn't have helped with that at all, though.
A Rob is old news though.
Hurns... I just don't understand the cut. The timing of it leaves me baffled. Had they done so at the start of FA, sure, makes sense, freeing up room to sign guys with.
March 20th? Umm... ok... so you kept him on the roster during the FA Frenzy, preventing him from getting in on the action... and you didn't have to pay him any Guaranteed... and there's no one really imminent to be signed right now... so... what?
The only thing that I can come up with is we want to roll it over to next year, but again... why not just do it at the start of FA, have that money available, and allow Hurns to hit the market when it was hottest?
If you asked me to choose between Robinson, Hurns, and Lee... Lee would have been the first cut. Yet... somehow butterfingers go himself a sweet new deal, and both Allens are shown the door.
Having a hard time keeping the faith this month.
(03-20-2018, 12:52 PM)PF* Wrote: [ -> ]I'll choose to ignore the whole money side of the Hurns debate ("if we had cut him earlier, we could've used the money...blah, blah") b/c I don't know the details