Hey guys 


So this year I got a job being a scout for a company up in Pennsylvania and was able to get paid to watch football for about 50 hours a week. I was also given the ability to write for the company book SIS Rookie Handbook, so if you have bought that in the past and plan on buying it this year then you will see my name under a couple of the reports. With all that aside, I was wondering if any of you all had any questions on prospects or how the scouting process works or maybe yall want to know what coaches or GMs are like without the media around? Just let me know

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He picked 5 teams that might show the massive improvement that the 49ers had last season, one of them being the Jags.

Mamba and his daughter killed in helicopter crash.

Tragic.

Dan Patrick always has a big guest line up on his week prior to the Super Bowl. I saw that Minshew will be one of those guests this year in studio. I'm not sure what day he'll be on yet but I can edit this post and attach the video with the full interview when it's put out.

Just wanted to give you all a heads up.

I have been critical about Chark by saying he’s not a true WR1, but he did his thing in 2019. He also did it with a rookie QB, and a hurt Nick Foles. 

WR is still a need, but with another threat on the other side Chark could carve out a solid career. 

There’s only been 5 players in Franchise history to have 1,000+yards receiving

- Jimmy Smith
-Kennan McCardell 
-Allen Robinson
-Allen Hurns
-DJ Chark 

That’s a pretty good group of WRs. Can’t wait to see what Gruden does with Chark.

On a side note, I’m also excited to see what Gruden does with Oliver in the red zone.

Calais Campbell believes his play justifies '20 salary

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001...-20-salary


Calais Campbell is set to make $17.5 million in 2020, a major cap hit that will have to decided on by the Jacksonville Jaguars' front office. Campbell says his play has more than justified his pay.

According to Canadian media, the Jaguars worked out a linebacker from the Saskatchewan Roughriders called Cameron Judge. 

I don’t know much about him, but he appears to be one of the better CFL linebackers from what I’ve read.

I was using this site as reference material

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agent...s-in-2020/


Assuming Yannick doesn't agree to a deal by the franchise deadline of March 10th (period starts Feb 25th), I think most people assume we will franchise him.  But there's two types.  Exclusive and non-exclusive.  I'm wondering whether they might be better off using the non-exclusive tag.

A lot depends on how hard core Yannick's desire to leave Jax is.  If we use the tag, he has till July 15th to sign a multi-year deal.  If he doesn't all we can do is a one year deal. 

Even in this situation you can trade a guy like the Clowney trade on Aug 31st.  Clowney netted two players, Jacob Martin and Barkevious Mingo, and a 2020 third-round pick.

But the reason they traded Clowney was that he refused to sign the contract and play.  He probably would have in Week 8 or whatever week is the deadline to count as having fulfilled your contract.  As you see with Trent Williams, even that can be messy.

So would they be better off doing the non-exclusive tag?  That would give Yannick and his guys almost 5 months to find a team willing to take on his contract and give up 2 first round draft choices.  If it ever happened, I assume the team would wait until after the draft so the draft picks would be 2021 and 2022 picks.  We'd have the option to take the contract they agreed to, but sometimes they are able to put in provisions we can't match like a lot of upfront money in year 1 when we have a cap problem.  But even if we don't agree to match, we get 2 numbers ones.

Obviously, we're better off signing him, but if we are going to tag him, I think the non-exclusive gives us better options.

What do you think?

My bat at GM.  

1. Coaching: Sending Marrone along with a Bologna Sandwich packing.  Most assistant coaches especially Wash along with him.  There are a few young good coaches on the team but that will be an evaluation of each coach 1 on 1.  Will scour along with my scouting staff the college ranks for hungry young coaches.  Tired of the same old coaching carousel.

2. The Cap: The cap needs some finagling. Yan is top priority and is either signing a $100 million dollar long term contract or getting the franchise tag.  I hope to restructure Darius and a few other contracts but it takes 2 to tango.  Some veterans no doubt will be cut from the team because they do not live up to their pay.     Would give a 3rd round pick to a team willing to take Foles contract due to the 2021 savings.  The best case scenario is that some team still thinks Foles is a winner and gives us something for him. Hoping to be atleast $30million over the cap before free agency.

3. Free Agency: I am not looking to make any kind of day 1 splash here.  The plan here is to be semi-conservative and look for a couple of decent tight ends or offensive lineman. The key here is make maybe one splash signing and the rest maybe week 2 guys.

4. Draft:  Going to draft for need this year in the early rounds.  I am more than willing to trade down and acquire more picks.  That said if I am staying put, I'm taking the best offensive linemen or tight end at the 9th spot.  The jags offensive line struggles against the better teams in the league.  A good tight end or offensive tackle will help them out big.  For the 20th pick it's either going to be a receiver or linebacker.  It depends on the better value.  The rest of the draft is mostly going to be Offensive line or Defense.  The Jags need linebackers and secondary help especially if Bouye gets paid elsewhere.