IMO, you can't underestimate how poor a job Tom Coughlin did in his position of EVP. The arguments rage on here, rightfully, about the performances of Caldwell and Marrone but you can lay the majority of the blame right on the incompetent EVP, the revered Tom Coughlin.

Jagjohn's post is quite good and underscores TC's incompetence. He was the guy who served as the football liaison to the Khans, he would be the one to conduct any overhaul but he couldn't stay above the fray. He meddled in Marrone's operation, he meddled with Caldwell's drafts- Fournette and Bryan have TC's fingerprints all over them.

It's pretty clear that everyone in that building was walking on eggshells since Coughlin "won lunch". What a performance...to the point where the NFLPA advised all potential FA's not to sign with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Had Coughlin been competent or even understood what his job was, he'd be the one addressing all of Jagjohn's points.
Instead, he's gone and this smoldering mess is left behind.

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