(11-01-2018, 12:33 AM)TJBender Wrote:

(11-01-2018, 12:16 AM)D6 Wrote: Though Dave Caldwell certainly has made his share of good to great draft selections,  the Blake Bortles selection and his overall track record in Round 1 stand out.  That much more with the Jaguars having several picks in the top 5 and not getting close to the desired results with the majority of these premium picks.  I have no idea how Shad Khan and Tom Coughlin are going to proceed.  But on the surface,  it feels like a situation Coughlin should hire someone in the current role that Caldwell is in.

Replacing Caldwell would make a great deal of sense, especially if the story that Coughlin was ready to move on from Bortles but Caldwell talked him out of it is true. I don't think Caldwell's tenure will be ended this offseason, though. I think he, like everyone else, will be given a pass for this season because of an AFC Championship Game appearance last year.

Something else plays into it as well. Our GM does not have final say on roster decisions. Coughlin does, and he uses it. This means that if a guy we like is under contract with another team, we can't forcibly hire him like we could someone who would be given final say. That severely cuts into the pool of available candidates for us. Unless we plan on bringing in a guy like Jerry Reese who is currently unemployed, we would have a hard time landing a candidate we want. Given that limitation, it's entirely possible that Caldwell gets Bortled back into the job. It's not that he's particularly good at it; it's just that we can't get our hands on anyone better.

One thought in particular that comes to mind is their might be someone in the Jaguars Current Front Office who has demonstrated that he's highly skilled at player talent evaluation and has a number of the other skills to be a successful NFL GM.  If the Jaguars have an in-house option along these lines,   at the very least Shad Khan and Tom Coughlin should discuss whether its best to promote him to Caldwell's position.

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