(03-07-2018, 08:41 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I've said it before: there has to be a limit.  In the past, I've obsessed during free agency, hoping the team would be willing to break the bank for this guy or that guy.  3-13 will do that to you.  Desperation.  But when you have built a talented roster, and you want to compete for years to come, you have to start to set limits.  You have to have some sort of budget.  Spending money means making choices.  

It's like the team has grown up.  We're no longer children.  "Daddy, buy me this!  Daddy, buy me that!"  

As the team improves, we start to get into a salary cap squeeze, and we have to be strict with our money.  That's what good teams do.   Bad teams have unlimited cap space because they don't have any good players to begin with.   Good teams have to be disciplined.

I guarantee you, if Allan Robinson signs a blockbuster deal, it will be with some crap team that has all kinds of cap space and is desperate to spend some money and get some players.  Thank God we are no longer in that situation.

Yeah, can you imagine the reactions if the Jaguars had selected Eastern Washington WR, Cooper Kupp, in the third round instead of Dawuane Smoot? 

Caldwell doesn't draft the best player available. Better NFL teams do. 

Is it really the goal of the organization to stack pass rushers? Why didn't Caldwell trust his own work in free agency? Calais Campbell was signed in March.

Drafting Smoot over Kupp in the third round last year was a gigantic error on his part. He didn't want to hurt Robinson's tender feelings by bringing in competition? He didn't want to frighten young and tender Allen? Is it really the goal of the Jaguars to draft less talented players on purpose so they can build a second string with a huge talent gap?

I really don't know why Tom Coughlin is holding onto Caldwell. Really?

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