(09-07-2020, 01:17 AM)TheDuke007 Wrote: I don't understand all of this hate for Fournette.  He had 1,674 total yards (rushing/receiving yards) last year and this was despite a pretty bad offensive line.  Do people not understand how incredible that is!?!!?  Let me tell you.  It's more than any other player in Jaguars history not named "Fred Taylor" or "Maurice Jones Drew".  Let's even look at those two players.  Fred Taylor  was ranked #2 on the Jaguars 25 year all time team list, is a member of the "Pride of the Jaguars" and has been a semi-finalist for the NFL Hall of Fame.  In his 13 year career, only twice did he exceed 1,674 yards.  Let me repeat it, Fred Taylor failed to have the success of Fournette's last year performance in 11 of his 13 seasons.  As for MJD, let's remember that he was ranked 4th on the Jaguar list of the 25 all time best players.  In 7 of his 9 years, he failed to have the total yards of Fournette last year!

We're somehow BETTER by letting Fournette go!?!?!? Please!  He was over 30% of our offensive yards last year!!!!!  Who are our alternatives at the position?  Instead of Fournette's 1,152 rushing yards, we can pick between guys with 138 yards (Thompson), 108 yards (Armstead), 27 yards (Ozigbo) and 0 yards (undrafted rookie Robinson).  Gee, Dave Caldwell.  You are so smart!!!!!

He got yards because he was force fed the football.. The guy had to catch 76 balls (targeted 100 times) to barely reach 500 receiving yards. There's nothing about his game that's above average and there's plenty of it that is below. To even put his name in the same sentence as Freddy T and MJD is laughable. Fournette couldn't hold their jockstrap.

If he was a 3rd, or later round pick, nobody would really bat an eye at this cut. It's just that people know his name because he was over hyped and highly drafted. Yet they have never really watched him play the past 3 seasons in the NFL, besides a few highlights. After 3 years of watching him play I (and many others) know exactly what he is as a RB and it's nothing special in the NFL. He simply lacks vision and can't create anything on his own (among some other things). Two things that are incredibly important at the NFL level.

There's no hate, I wish him well. It's just that most can see past the numbers because they never tell the full story. It was just time to move on (he was 100% gone at years end anyways). Hes got a stacked cast around him now with the Bucs, so no excuses now.

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