(09-08-2019, 06:11 PM)Senor Fantastico Wrote: I like Caldwell more than most here but he's at some glaring blunders in his time here for sure.

I want to like Caldwell. I really do. He's not a Gene Smith, and for that, i'm thankful, but how many of his first round picks alone have failed? Any team that has the amount of first round misfires Jacksonville's had is not going to win consistently. But it's not even just that, because for whatever reason, the man DOES make up for it by snagging good to very good talent in the latter rounds. I'll give him that.

But my real issue with Caldwell was bringing Gus Bradley in as a head coach. And then sticking with him when it was clear that he was out of his depth. Hindsight is what it is, but it could've been possible that Bortles COULD have been a better QB if he'd been developed by a real coach with a mind for development. So having Bradley ruined Bortles' initial progress. I think from then on, Bortles had trouble recovering from that. He was lousy outside of garbage time in 2015 and game managership in 2017.

Bradley set this team back for another several years, and honestly, i cannot say I'm supportive of Caldwell being the guy that, SHOULD Marrone get fired later this season, picks a new head coach. I barely trust him with first round picks at this point; Ramsey and Allen both fell into Caldwell's lap because other teams didn't take them. I call that luck. Jokell was a bust, though I won't blame all of that on Caldwell; the Joke was supposed to be pretty good. But Bortles was a [BLEEP] reach and we all know it. I'm not saying there was a better QB to take at the time, but there WAS premium talent at other positions that they could've pursued instead; Khalil Mack was available, for example. I guess I'm grateful he didn't bring in Johnny Manziel, but Bortles is hardly a consolation prize

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