Quote:<p style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:'Chaparral Pro', Georgia, Arial;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250);">Unless the Jaguars sign a number of surprise home runs in free agency and through the draft, Jacksonville won’t be a playoff team in 2014, but they’ll be considerably better. The team has big holes on the offensive line and at quarterback, but if it can come up with long-term solutions to those positions this season, the team could be turning a corner and getting pointed in the right direction.

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<p style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:'Chaparral Pro', Georgia, Arial;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250);">The factor that seems to be differentiating the Jags’ current regime from other chronic failures in the NFL is their willingness to take their time and build a stable team. Other organizations are constantly turning over their front office, but when the Jags started over, they blew everything up at once. The result is a GM and head coach that are on the same page.

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<p style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:'Chaparral Pro', Georgia, Arial;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250);">It helps that the Jaguars brought in the right head coach for the job too. You’ll be hard pressed to read anything about the Jaguars’ struggles in 2013 without hearing about the positive influence Gus Bradley had on his team. After all, teams that lose their first eight games by double digits virtually never bounce back in any meaningful way, but the Jaguars’ approach of simply getting better each week paid off, and there’s no denying that the team was miles better by the end of the season than they were at its onset.