(01-02-2019, 06:51 PM)nhiverson Wrote: I seen that Fournette was sleeping in meetings and playing on his phone and always late I guess I am confused why they didn't deal with this during the season. Should of traded him before the deadline but he was injured so maybe they were stuck with him for the year.

Trading him before the deadline wasn't an option regardless of the injury.  The guaranteed money was still on the table at that point.  

We don't know if the team was trying to deal with this internally during the season.  They'd never made that public.  When they suspended him last year for violating team rules, they originally intended to make it a 1/2 game suspension and he pitched a fit with Marrone according to Mark Long at the AP.  So, they suspended him for the entire game.  

With the guaranteed money off the table, the Jaguars actually have the upper hand.  If he doens't tow the line and make significant strides toward fixing the issues he has as a pro athlete, they can dump him.  Nobody is going to pay him what he's making here, so I think that will motivate him to do whatever he has to to assure he gets paid. I also suspect Wheatley ran a soft RB room so these guys got away with murder. Look for the new RB coach to be a little more in line with the heavy handed ways of old when TC was head coach.

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