(08-24-2017, 02:00 PM)wrong_box Wrote:

(08-24-2017, 12:48 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: Didn't read the article, as I won't support ESPN outside of a very compelling MNF game. 

Having said that, this franchise has an identity crisis, and hiring Tom Coughlin was step 1 in resolving that crisis. I am not going to say that Marrone is not the guy, but if multiple head coaches get the same result, maybe the guys being drafted just aren't talented enough. I think the elephant in the room here is David Caldwell. I believe if we have another sub-5 win season, and it is sure looking to be one, Caldwell gets the boot and full reigns of the franchise are handed to 70 year old Tom Coughlin.

The Jags are paying guys because they are the best WE have, but that doesn't mean they are the best in the grand scheme of the NFL. I think the threat of losing the good pieces causes us to make questionable decisions.

The bottom line is, the game is won and lost in the trenches and that is, and has been our achilles heel for as long as I care to remember.

This has been said since Tom Coughlin left...We had limited success with JDR but he stepped into an already built roster with a very good defense to begin with...There's no doubt that poor drafting has set us way back especially through the Gene Smith era, and then right into the Gus era of poor coaching...

Last year the sports media finally began talking about the Jags in a positive light, and more so this year...They have even given Caldwell Kudos for the talent level he has acquired...Now if Marrone can do something with the talent we have we might become relevant again...Maybe not this year, and maybe the year after we might struggle some with a new QB, but at least we should be moving forward...


Sure, DC has done some good things and the talent level has improved (although didn't it almost have to from the depths of Gene Smith despair?)............but, the author's point, and I have no idea if he's right, is that our FO has just very recently committed some major shiny new blunders.  The fifth-year option on Bortles (clearly a mistake) and the way in which we extended Hurns and Linder, again not the decision to extend, but the way in which those extensions were handled, etc.  Mix those in with the old-news blunders (Gus, drafting Bortles in the first place, Fowler) and what are we left with? Yet another terribly incompetent GM?

I hope that's not the case, but I'll say again that DC's job probably depends on winning at least twice as many games as we won last year.