(08-07-2017, 09:46 AM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(08-06-2017, 03:01 PM)TealHammer Wrote: That 2015 offseason was absolutely craptastic.

Free agent signings:

S Sergio Brown
CB Davon House
DT Jared Odrick
OT Jermey Parnell
LB Dan Skuta
TE Julius Thomas
C Stefen Wisniewski

Draft picks:

1 Dante Fowler, Jr.
2 T. J. Yeldon
3 A. J. Cann
4 James Sample
5 Rashad Greene
6 Michael Bennett
7 Neal Sterling
Ben Koyack

Bow wow.

Every player on that list who played both years was better in 2015 than 2016. That's not on Caldwell, that's on Bradley and the rest of the coaching staff.

I agree in general that a lot of blame can go on coaches, but that was another terrible draft. They thought so little of their second round reach that they've spent huge at his position both years since he was drafted. And I hate to even get started on what a bad reach Fowler was.

If Bortles comes back on as a decent starter then 2014 was a very good draft, but 2013 and 2015 were quite literally hot garbage, and it's not like good talent wasn't there to be had in 2015, Caldwell just passed it up to fill positions rather than improving team talent, and that's how teams get to where the Jaguars have been for the past decade, terrible to the point of being a punchline.

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