(10-11-2020, 03:48 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: Still 11 games left.  No reason to make a decision right now on him.  I'll wait to see how he plays in these last 11 and then make a decision

(10-11-2020, 04:14 PM)JaguarWC Wrote: Yeah, lets draft another QB with our first pick...  Especially one who doesn't perform as good as this one with better talent around them.  Quit it already. QB is not the issue.  Stability and growth are.  Our team needs to grow together and learn.  We have a 6th round draft pick who is performing just fine. Would we rather have Haskins??? NO.  Jones???? NO.  Murray???  Maybe...  Lock??? No...    We can't shuffle QB's every year and think we are going to improve.  Lets stick with Minshew... BUILD around him (i.e. line, etc.).  Too many people making knee jerk reactions.

I agree with both of you. I've said before he does at least the whole season to prove himself and I'm sticking with that. I do think that people like to have knee jerk reactions and they have gotten more frequent regarding him the past few weeks. Even in games where he hasn't been the biggest problem and actually did enough to help the team win. People thing that getting someone like Trevor Lawrence may solve a lot of the Jags problems but that may not be the case. I still believe he is good enough to be a starter. He makes some mistakes but he still looks like a starter IMO and looks much better than some of the other starting young QB's around his age. 

(10-11-2020, 04:21 PM)JagFan81 Wrote:

(10-11-2020, 04:18 PM)Newton Wrote: I think Minshew is still on the team next year. We need talent, and he has it. He may not be elite, but no reason to not have a vet to allow the rookie to develop (if we end up going that way). Minshew is a team first guy. I think he could be a long term backup for us, even if he does not end up being the guy. Even better, we somehow start winning some games (seems like a major long-shot).

He wont be a long term backup here. Someone else will give him a shot if we dont.

I agree, he is not going to decide to be a long term backup. Unless he ends up having injury issues and just wants to stay on a team or something like that. He's going to want a chance to go somewhere else and start. And if he's healthy and able he will. At the very least he will try and do what a Case Keenum has done, like find a good team like the Vikings were at the time and try and do something with them. I could see him going to a good team like the Saints/Steelers (after their QB's retire, but they still aren't bad enough to get a top draft pick) and vying for a starting job.

(10-11-2020, 05:04 PM)Predator Wrote: He missed a few open guys, but there are much bigger problems than Minshew. O-line has regressed. Far too many free rushers.

I am starting to dislike Gruden's play calling and use of personnel.

Last two possessions before the half, including one with a first and goal, and Robinson is on the sideline. He is telegraphing teams what we are going to do with the ball with his personnel choices. Thompson sees the field too much to have 6 rushes in 5 games. Every time he is on the field you know we are going to pass. You can't allow a defense that kind of heads up. And yet another game where Shenault has a great first half and then disappears from the game plan in the second except for a few gimmick plays .

Another team that can't stop the run and we hardly run the ball. We run well in the first half, he runs a few plays up the gut in the second half that don't get blocked well, and he abandons the run. Two games in a row where we are in the game going in the second half and he abandons the run.

I don't understand why Jay keeps going away from the run when it proves to be effective. Listening to some of his press conferences it kind of sounds like he feels that the Jags run the ball enough in these games. He needs to focus on what works.

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