(12-16-2019, 11:40 PM)nate Wrote:

(12-16-2019, 04:53 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: I'm not defending Coughlin, but TrivialPursuit had a solid point.

Not at all.  

If you think things haven’t progressed significantly in the last 20 years, you’re mad. 

In every way physically.   Next thing someone is going to say the 78 Steelers with a 215 lambert, 260 pound HOF center Webster, etc could hang with say Kelce and Aaron Donald or Chris Jones.  Just no.

These players today don't have to sell insurance or work construction in the offseason.  And what about this guy, wounded in Vietnam but hey he can't hang with Kelce.

https://www.steelers.com/history/bios/bleier_rocky

You are what you are in the decade you lived.

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(12-16-2019, 09:46 PM)LMD Wrote: https://twitter.com/vitostellino/status/...5990533120

Minus the last sentence, I think this sums up my thoughts pretty well. As annoyed as I am by TC turning this franchise into a laughing stock, which seems to be focused on driving players away, Shad can't escape blame for allowing this to go on for 2 years. 1/4 of all the grievances in a league of 32 teams came against this organization.

And I'm fairly certain Kahn was funding the defenses in front of these arbitrators, so I find it hard to believe he truly didn't know what was going on.

Regardless of whether you think players are pansies or not, the fact is the Jags are the only organization breaking the rules at such an astronomical pace that the Players Association had to come out and recommend "suggest" players not sign with the organization.

I thought losing the most consecutive games by 17 points was bad, but this might officially be the lowest point in the franchise's history--to me, at least. What a joke.

This is a huge problem without me giving a flip about the NFLPA.  I can't stand the NFLPA.  Do you really think they want 3 teams in Florida, especially one in Jacksonville?  They want big markets and owners like Jerry and Stan pushing revenues into the salary cap.  Hey that is their job but I don't have to like it.

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