(12-07-2020, 08:14 PM)mal234 Wrote:

(12-07-2020, 07:59 PM)Cleatwood Wrote: So you think Doug is intentionally throwing games by playing players who are worse than others..... in an attempt to.... what?

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.)

Your first sentence is the very reason why I brought up why your posts come off as feeling personally insulted. We all wanted Minshew to succeed from the get-go but the issue is that he was a major source of the offensive woes our team faced - even far before his injury timeline. If he played good, then who the heck would not want him at the helm as JAGUARS fan? He just regressed to the point where he had to be benched because his performance on the field was unacceptable (even when we take out plays where the source contributing to an error on the play did not originate from Minshew).

So with that, what comments are untrue about Minshew? Nobody is on here with a character assassination on the guy's personality, motivation, or dedication. The aura around the whole "Minshew Magic" was great - the problem was that his play on the field - i.e. what he gets paid to do, led to the major issues on offense early on.

Love the guy and wish him well, but it's not farfetched to say that he's performed to what we expect a 6th round draftee as.

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