(12-31-2019, 11:24 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Maybe Shad Khan thinks he cannot recruit a good GM and HC as long as the team is tied to this huge contract with Nick Foles.  Maybe he thinks next year, when we can finally get rid of that contract, we'll have a better shot at better candidates.  

I'm just spitballing here.  There has to be a reason why we're keeping these guys, and past performance obviously isn't it.

I think it's the Minshew factor. Caldwell and Marrone have sold Khan on the idea that Minshew is the future (he probably is). If he turns out not to be and the team keeps losing, Caldwell and Marrone are fired, a new coach comes in, Foles' contract finally goes from a massive dead money hit to a marginal cap savings if he's cut, and the team's first-round pick is probably high enough that it could be packaged with the Rams pick and a couple others from the same draft to go after Trevor Lawrence.

Honestly, that could be it as much as anything else. The quarterback depth chart is pretty well set as-is unless the Jaguars can unload Foles on someone else or get value back for Dobbs, and you'd be greatly limiting your coaching pool candidates by telling them that they're stuck with Minshew or Foles if they, for example, want a guy like Justin Herbert instead.

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