(06-04-2019, 09:54 AM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote: Where's The Mad Dog when we need him?  I remember him clamoring for the Jags to draft Calais with their 1st round #26 pick when he came out of The U.   Most, if not all of us, thought there were too many question marks surrounding his motivation (or lack thereof).

Calais was selected in Round 2 with the 50th pick of the draft.  For the record, the Jags ended up trading their #26 pick and two 2nd round picks to move up to #8 for Derrick Harvey and then traded up in the 2nd round to pick #54 to select Quentin Groves with the pick #54.  

Wow .... if we had just taken Calais with the #26 pick and kept both 2nd round picks life would have been a little different here in Jacksonville.

He also said passing on Quentin Moses in the 3rd round prior to this would be the franchises biggest mistake since passing on Roethlisberger.

Also in hindsight, Calais never topped 10 sacks before leaving Arizona... he's been absolutely bannanas since joining and i'm thrilled to have him but lets not pretend like his career trajectory would've been the same if he'd been drafted here. If he was around the dysfunction of this team in his early years he'd have walked at the first opportunity.

Also consider that every single guy on TMD's mock draft not named Calais Campbell was a bust or flamed out. I remember him riding his high horse about Steve Slaton after his rookie year, and then being silent when the guy failed to top 500 yards and 3 TD's in any given year for the remainder of his career.

TMD was proof that if you throw enough crap at a wall SOMETHING will stick.

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