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This from today's MMQB

 

 

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• Unrestricted free agents signed by Jacksonville since March 2015: 19.

• Total contract dollars committed to those free agents: $541.2 million.

• Actual dollars spent so far on 2015 and ’16 free agents: $128.6 million.

• Jacksonville’s record since March 2015: 8-24.

• Of the 19 free agents signed, number departed: 8. (Julius Thomas, Jared Odrick, Davon House, Sergio Brown, Stefan Wisniewski from 2015; Prince Amukamara, Kevin Beachum, Mackenzy Bernadeau from 2016.)

I will hand it to GM Dave Caldwell, trying to get off the free agency schneid in 2017: Calais Campbell is one of the best 3-4 defensive linemen in football; Barry Church is an underrated safety with good range and good hitting ability; and A.J. Bouye was the best cornerback on the market, and he’s just 25 years old. They’d better produce. Jacksonville has gotten nowhere near its money’s worth on the $128.6 million Caldwell has spent so far.

 

 

However, not all was bad from the column.

 

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A.J. Bouye at $13.5 million a year will be one of the bargains of this free agency season. Feisty and fast, Bouye and Jalen Ramsey (25 and 22, respectively) give Jacksonville the best young corner tandem in football.

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out of those 8 failed FAs, 3 were 1 year deals, so they were stop gaps. The others were decent. The only true fail was Thomas.

The only bullet point that really matters here, is the 4th.  If we were winning, none of those other metrics would matter. But then if we were winning, those other metrics wouldn't be so extreme.

No worries.... full top down and bottom up review of football operations/team has been conducted and one man was found to be the root cause.  With the excise of Gus all will be glittering and gold again.

 

That is a staggering amount of money and releases but we do have to spend as part of the CBA so it isn't completely unexpected.  Imagine if that money was going to retain talent...  oh wait we haven't gotten there yet.

Though the results didn't show in the win column,  Prince Amukamara turned out to be a good signing by the Jaguars.   If not for the opportunity to get one of the best CBs in the NFL in the 2016 season, Prince could have very realistically been re-signed by the Jaguars.

The team has zero players left from the 2007-2013 drafts. If Lewis was not on the roster, it would be any draft prior to 2014. 

 

They have probably been the worst drafting team of the past decade. 

 

What other choice do they have right now but to stock the team with free agents?

The amount of money spent, even if it didn't produce results, is irrelevant.  Despite what seems to be an incredible amount of money for FAs the last two years we still have a ton of cap space to continue to spend to find something that works.  Thankfully, the front office doesn't try to protect its pride and keep these failed FAs.  Like Babe Ruth, nobody counted the number of swings and misses he had.  It's not like those acquisitions cap strapped us.  The FO did a masterful job of ensuring that didn't happen.  Now if we didn't have the money to spend in 2017 that would be the story!  

The thing is....barely any of those guys were meant to be long term building blocks. Tons of those guys were "filler" type players or guys like Odrick who were expected to play for a year or two before being replaced by better talent.


The only guys I'd consider a huge miss were Julius Thomas and probably Beadles.

Quote:out of those 8 failed FAs, 3 were 1 year deals, so they were stop gaps. The others were decent. The only true fail was Thomas.

...who was injured twice in his first year in Jax.

FA, your either getting someone that is overpriced for their current teams performance value, or garbage the team discarded.

T.C. is trimming all the fat. Should be an interesting 2017 season.

Quote:The thing is....barely any of those guys were meant to be long term building blocks. Tons of those guys were "filler" type players or guys like Odrick who were expected to play for a year or two before being replaced by better talent.

The only guys I'd consider a huge miss were Julius Thomas and probably Beadles.

Bingo.


Not one of these guys has adversely affected the team's salary cap health.

Quote:The thing is....barely any of those guys were meant to be long term building blocks. Tons of those guys were "filler" type players or guys like Odrick who were expected to play for a year or two before being replaced by better talent.


The only guys I'd consider a huge miss were Julius Thomas and probably Beadles.

Odrick was one of the top free agents at the time entering his prime and was supposed to be a long term fix at the position

Quote:Odrick was one of the top free agents at the time entering his prime and was supposed to be a long term fix at the position

 

A run stuffer at the Big End position, part of Gus Bradley's scheme which we hopefully won't use anymore.

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This is so true. The only offender is Gus. Even if he got tons of pro bowlers, he would still find ways to lose.

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He's mouthing one of two things here:  he's either A.) saying the equivalent of "right on!" or B.) describing what he did to this team and fan base for four years.

 

I can't unsee him mouthing option B.

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Bradley is pumped up that we passed the mirror test and our players had a body temperature roughly in the 90s. 

The money in these contracts is largely irrelevant considering our enormous cap space year over year.  The only one who shouldnt consider it irrelevant is Shad Khan who has forked over a bunch of cash for nothing.

Quote:The money in these contracts is largely irrelevant considering our enormous cap space year over year.  The only one who shouldnt consider it irrelevant is Shad Khan who has forked over a bunch of cash for nothing.

It still represents spinning our wheels.

 

Most of these players didn't "advance the cause."

 

To me, as a fan, it's quite relevant.  Not the money...but the futility.