I don't think there's anything wrong with our scouting department. I don't think the scouts said we should draft Bortles or Fournette. Those decisions were made at the top. Caldwell has said that he was the one who fell in love with Bortles. And the Fournette pick was pure Coughlin.

Looking around the league, while it is true we have missed on some high draft picks, it looks like our bigger problem has been player retention. I see players that used to play for us who are starting and playing well for teams that are better than we are. If you look at the players we have tossed aside, or failed to re-sign, or have alienated to the point where they have forced their way out of Jacksonville, and if you add those players back to this team, plus Trevor Lawrence, we would have a playoff team. Calais Campbell, Yannick Ngakoue, Jalen Ramsey, Tashaun Gipson, Alan Robinson, and for God's sake, Tyson Alualu, who is a starter for the Steelers. There are many others.

We don't need new scouts. What we need is a new GM who can manage our roster, retain our players, and make better decisions about how to build a team and where to put our resources. That is our obvious failing. It's not the scouting department. It's the GM.

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