(08-24-2017, 02:13 PM)Billycool Jag Wrote:

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

I don't see it that way...From what I understand they picked up Bortles 5th year option in case he shined this year he's already signed, rather than have to use the more expensive franchise tag, plus they can still cut him with little cap impact....Linder we all knew would be extended, and Hurns is the same thing...They minimized the cap impact so they had room to resign other players plus Bortles if he was worth it, and can cut him without much damage...Pretty good idea if ya ask me...Yeah he's had some misses mostly in FA but that's the chance you take in FA...When the roster has so many holes, you really don't have much choice but to swing for the bleachers in FA and hope a few of them work out...

Caldwell isn't going anywhere any time soon...Khan continues to praise the work he's done and Coughlin and Caldwell says their system is working well...I think we will see Coughlin, Caldwell, and Marrone for at least 3 years

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