(05-02-2021, 10:14 AM)Bullseye Wrote:

(05-02-2021, 09:46 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: You can't always get what you want. Some of us are way too into football and watch hundreds of hours of college football throughout the year via live games, recorded games and the internet. We watch players individually and really know who is a good fit for the team and who isn't. There are several really knowledgeable posters on this board when it comes to college football players and they posts on this board weekly, if not daily. I enjoy discussing football with them a lot, that is why I come to this board several times a day. Guys around here really know their stuff and obviously, they must watch as much college football as I do. It's great. We might not always agree about certain players, but we each bring our own convictions about those players, because we've watched them play and if we disagree with a choice the team has made, we have every right to voice that opinion. If you don't like it, block us. I could care less. 

What bothers me is when we get these bandwagon fans coming to the board who watch little to no college football outside of Florida. They come on here with their pom poms and their overly positive attitudes and they cheer every single pick the team makes and they expect all the other posters on the board to do the same. That's not how it works. Some people have absolutely no idea who the players are that we are picking, yet the blindly trust the coaches and front office with every decision they make. How far has that gotten us in the past? We've been one of the worst franchises in the NFL for decades, because of bad decisions by the people in charge. If some of us want to voice our complaints, we should be allowed to. We earned the right. You don't get to tell others how they should feel. If you want to be "little Mary Sunshine" you can, but don't tell others how to react to every selection. I've been a fan since the beginning. I was sitting on aluminum bleachers in 95 degree weather in Canton, Ohio when the Jags played their first exhibition game against the Panthers and I've followed them ever since. I've paid my dues and so have many other people on this board. We aren't bandwagon fans. We eat, sleep and live Jaguars football and one day, it's probably gonna kill us.

Agreed completely.

I understand wanting to read positive things about your team.   As someone who reads a lot of football stuff, the Jaguars bashing is tiresome and a respite from it is welcome.

I understand the whole escapism take.

But with that, I can't understand aversion to the truth, even if unpleasant.  The fact is, as desperately as we all want the Jaguars to be the very best team ever, the results have been the furthest from that-literally.  No amount of positivity can erase or conceal that.  What I can't understand is the suppression of honest and informed conviction.

As long as a take is honest, offered in good faith and is reasonably well informed, I welcome it, good or bad.  Even if I disagree and express my reasons why, it helps get me through the hell of football withdrawal in the offseason, and enhances the experience of football season.