(05-02-2021, 07:58 AM)Upper Wrote:

(05-02-2021, 07:44 AM)dennisp3 Wrote: I don’t understand some posters on this board always finding the negative and never looking at the positive.

I dunno man, I'd much rather be able to think critically and praise them when they do good (Little and Cisco) and critique them when they do bad (Etienne, most of day 3). I don't understand the people who can clap like trained seals no matter what they do. It's not like anyone in this franchise has earned the benefit of the doubt in the past fifteen years or more.

I'm not sure if it's quite as simple as guys always finding the negative.

Thinking back to the response to the 2014 draft, the response was overwhelmingly positive.  I can't recall a single poster complaining in the slightest about the 2016 draft.  The whole board was deliriously happy coming back with Ramsey and Jack with the first two picks. The only question surrounded Ngakoue at 3, because many of us had never seen/heard of him.  By the same token, people were less than enthusiastic at the 2017 first round pick (Fournette), the 2018 first round pick (Taven Bryan) and the 2020 first round picks (Henderson and Chaisson).  Heck, you don't have to go back that far.  Just look at the responses to the idea of being able to draft TL.  I can recall maybe one poster (one I've never read before or since) since December who has said the Jaguars should not draft TL.  OLine, who is often bashed as overly negative, lauded the TL pick.  He has just said that Wilson can be successful too

Sometimes the fans with the negative takes are right whether we like it or not as Jaguars fans.

To my recollection, I think many of the fans who are negative about a pick will fess up if they are wrong.  There were some who hated the Chark pick from 2018.  A lot fewer people maintain that view now.

I don't think there are any posters here who offer contrived and disingenuous arguments just to Jag bash.  I think it's done from genuine concern for the team and genuine disagreement over the direction the team takes.

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