(03-05-2020, 04:49 PM)Caldrac Wrote:

(03-05-2020, 03:34 PM)Last42min Wrote: So you're telling me that Coughlin is the reason this team went to the playoffs in 2017? Coughlin brought on Fournette and Campbell. The rest of the team was built. Swap Fournette with McCaffrey or Bortles with Mahommes, then take away the ego clashing with the players and TC. You think we still suck? I think you have to give Caldwell some credit.

Nope. Didn't say that at all. In fact. I have been saying for a few years now that 2017 was a fluke if you really look at the schedule and the quality of teams they faced. And they barely scrounged up 10 wins that year while still managing to lose to the Mariota led tacks twice, a Cardinals team led by Gabbert, a Jets team led by an over the hill McCown and a few other rookies on the schedule too I believe. 

They had to pull countless trick plays out of their [BLEEP] as well on special teams that year just to keep the incompetent offense on the football field longer. Don't be fooled. This team was far, far and away from being a legitimate contender with this front office in place. If they were that close we wouldn't have seen them collapse as bad as they did. 

They caught a lucky break that year on the schedule. That's about it.

And you know the devastatingly painful part of 2017?  Is how much the franchise invested in their own hype on that season and made franchise killing decisions because of the lightning in a bottle nature of one season in a decade.

As a counter point, let's make believe they didn't extend Bortles, what would be different right now?

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