(10-11-2020, 09:40 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(10-11-2020, 09:16 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: I agree, on paper that's the way it looks, but some weeks I'm just stunned by certain game results. Teams win games every week that on paper, they shouldn't win. It will happen again. As for the Falcons, they've been without Julio Jones. Once he comes back, I can see them winning a couple games. I could see the Giants beating Washington twice and Dallas now that Dax is out. On paper, I see no winnable games for the Jets. They look completely inept at everything. With that said, realistically, I think they end up with 1-2 wins. I also think we will ultimately win two more completely meaningless games at the end of the season, just to screw up our final draft position. That is what I have come to expect from this team. 

There is two "prize" players in the next draft, QB Trevor Lawrence and LT Penei Sewell. I completely expect them to go #1 and #2. Lawrence is a franchise type QB and Sewell is a generational LT. We could desperately use both and I fully expect to miss out on both players.

I take little solace in the Any Given Sunday thing,

The way the Jaguars existence has been, it has always worked against the Jaguars.

We are snakebitten when it comes to the top overall pick.

During expansion, we lost the coin toss to Carolina, and they wound up with the top overall pick.  Granted we wound up getting the better pick (Boselli vs Carolina trading down and getting Kerry Collins).

But then in 2012, we wound up finishing 2-14, but the Chiefs wound up with the #1 overall pick.  They wound up with a decent LT, while we were at #2 and wound up with Joeckel.

I would hate to see us finish 1-15, only to pick #2 at best in a year with Trevor Lawrence.

It would definitely hurt to lose out on a potential franchise QB, but being the type of guy I am, (that believes in building a team from the O-Line on out,) I'd love the chance to finally get a LT that we could plug and play for the next 10 years. We haven't had a great LT since Tony Boselli. I see Sewell as a potential foundational piece in the offense. Even if we don't get Lawrence, I gotta believe that someday we will find our franchise QB. You never know, given what happened today, maybe the Cowboys decide to take one of the overrated QB's in the draft (Trey Lance or Justin Fields.) Maybe they decide not to pay Dak Prescott given the injury. He'd be a nice addition in free agency. I know it's a long shot, but nothing is 100% out of the realm of possibility. I gotta keep hoping or what's the point of watching football anymore?

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(10-11-2020, 09:53 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(10-11-2020, 09:43 PM)Upper Wrote: If we had a true franchise QB our offense would be pretty set as is. We could go on a full defensive spending spree like we did in 2017 and build a defense with FA + the rest of the picks we have + the few good defenders we already have.

I don't know if it would be fully loaded/ideally stocked, but it wouldn't be like, say. the 2004 offense, which was almost completely devoid of WRs, devoid of Ts, no TEs to speak of.

We wouldn't have an Ephraim Salaam at LT.  We'd have some good WRs and a good RB.

Oh God, please don't say that name. He was the worst starting LT in the history of the franchise. He was completely incompetent at every aspect of the position. He had no redeeming qualities as a player.

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