(12-07-2020, 07:59 PM)Cleatwood Wrote: (12-07-2020, 07:41 PM)mal234 Wrote: This is the type of stuff I am talking about regarding Doug's behavior towards Gardner that I mentioned in yesterday's game day thread. Gardner has been medically cleared for a few weeks now, I saw some doctors on Twitter including the profootballtalk doctor saying that his thumb injury is healed. I believe that Doug is exaggerating things about Gardner not looking right in practice. Gardner probably looks fine, and no worse than Mike. But Doug is mad at him and won't play him. Doug's is wrong for this and it would serve him right if this somehow backfired on him.
So you think Doug is intentionally throwing games by playing players who are worse than others..... in an attempt to.... what?
I think that he's angry at Gardner about Gardner not disclosing his injury and it's affecting his behavior. I also think he could be in a don't give a crap mode, because he feels like he's more than likely going to be fired anyway.
Do you think that Mike is a better option for Gardner. For winning? Regardless of whether you think either one of them is a long term starter for the Jags.
Some Jags fans and media members have become really disingenuous when it comes to Gardner and their take on his ability. Some people are trying to make him out to be way worse than what he is, and I think that's a crappy thing to do. Especially since he seems to love being a Jag player. We certainly have seen players that don't want to be Jags and have forced their way off of this team. It's odd that people want to dump on one of the players that actually wants to be here and did provide some hope for the city, even if was brief.
If people don't want Gardner to be the starter regardless of how he plays just say that. And stop with the disingenuous and often untrue comments about how he's played/looked in comparison to other QB's. This is sports, people can't get away with that type of stuff without being called on it.
Going back to Doug, I don't buy that he thinks that Mike really gives them the best chance to win. Especially since the team hasn't won with Mike. (And I'm not trying to dump on Mike, he has looked better than I thought he would. And you can see that he's a veteran QB.) Now, granted the team hasn't really won with much any of the QB's, but still. If you want to win you go with the best option. If you don't want to win, then go with Jake and say you're playing him to get a closer look and evaluate what you want to do with the QB position next season. Heck, they could have even given that excuse as a reason to play Mike. (If they were trying to decide on whether to keep him as a backup next year.)
