(03-16-2018, 07:42 AM)JUNGLE CAT 2017 Wrote:

(03-15-2018, 08:09 PM)MalabarJag Wrote: Not signing McCarron or Henne wasn't a "failure," that was a gram slam home run.

Are you still not realizing you grossly overvalued McCarron compared to what the NFL GMs thought?

And Bortles contract has nothing to do with the topic. It's as pertinent as: "Look, a squirrel !!!"

I do not know what ANY NFL GM thinks. Every year NFL GMs lose their jobs due to arrogance, unwillingness, and bad scouting.

Not one NFL GM has candidly said that A. J. McCarron can't start in the NFL. Most are simply following the old herd mentality consensus that management is right and labor is wrong. There's this tendency for NFL teams to black ball players, who challenge them in litigious ways. The NFL challenged A. J. McCarron's grievance all the way to court. The league office hates being challenged and losing. McCarron won. The NFL lost. To suggest this meant nothing to NFL GMs demonstrates a lack of knowledge of how NFL owners and their executives see themselves.

McCarron, for his part, openly stated he would accept a lesser deal any NFL team - willing to give him a chance to COMPETE for their starting QB job - would make him. The Jaguars are pressed against the cap could have made McCarron an offer similar to what the Bills did, even topped it a bit.

The Jaguars simply do NOT know much about quarterbacks. They just draft them and throw them to the wolves. Naturally, a quarterback from a better organization spends much more time on the bench because they already have a solid quarterback. It's a fool's mistake to assume this means the quarterback being groomed isn't any good. The fact that the Bengals held onto McCarron for four years (three according to their dubious methods) is thrown out with the baby bath water.

I still remember when Patriots fans were trying to convince Jaguars' fans on the old TU board to give them a fourth round pick for a young quarterback from Michigan, Tom Brady. Most all laughed at the idea the Patriots would draft a guy named Tom Brady. Sounds like the noun in a folk song. (Right up there with Kathleen Mavourneen) I discounted it because I surfed around the Internet and I could not find much about Brady. In those days there were only a few places to learn. Many publications I was privy to didn't have much to say either.

The Buffalo Bills are playing at playoff caliber. They proved they were a quarterback away from being great and they did something about it.

The Jaguars are being held up by lousy quarterback play who can't complete passes twelve feet in front of him some times. 

Even with a new trade-friendly contract, there's not a single NFL GM who will jump at a chance to trade for Blake Bortles. Not one.

Jags will finish with a better record than the bills. 

Aj mccarron will be average at best. 

I would actually let Tom Brady's jockstrap suit up and play starting qb for me before I let AJ mccarron. 

Just give it up. I thought maybe the weird mccarron crush was an isolated incident but pretty much every single football related opinion that comes out of your mouth is the worst I've heard.

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