(10-04-2020, 10:24 PM)jaglyn Wrote:

(10-04-2020, 07:10 PM)MoJagFan Wrote: It was "built" but now it is traded away. We only have 6 more years to go before we luck into our next playoff appearance.

I have a feeling that the Jags management confidently assumed that they can replicate assembling a group like the 2017 squad. Maybe they thought it would be easy. But it was really lucky how they were able to get the most out of those players then, all of those guys overperformed that season.

I don't think they over-performed; we just over-paid for veteran free agents who had a year or two left in them of high-level play.  It worked on D, but the philosophy is not sustainable if you cannot consistently draft good young (and cheaper) players behind them to reload when you move on from the free agents after a couple seasons.

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