(05-19-2021, 04:58 PM)CanDoBetter Wrote: The 4th isn't unknown though. It's Josiah Scott who barely played even when Greg Mabin, Chris Claybrooks and others played instead.

What do you suggest a team should do when they realize their pick was a bust?

It's already been suggested.  You just aren't paying attention. 
Also, assuming a 2nd year player is a bust is absurdly unwise in most cases.

And it wasn't "their pick." Which is all the MORE reason a new regime should do their due diligence on players like Oliver and Scott before jettisoning them for guys with traits they like better for a particular scheme.  

Saying a 4th rnd rookie didn't beat someone out for time in his rookie season is not an argument holding even a single drop of water, BTW. 

I think Josiah Scott was a reach by Caldwell and his best hope is being some poor man's half-cocked version of T-Mathieu in a scheme that uses lots of varied nickel and dime coverages.  I think he was a long shot to make it in Cullen's defense. 

None of that is relevant to the point I keep trying to drive home. 

The new Jags regime seems too quick to release players they haven't even worked out personally and eager to sign those they have past knowledge of. I love much of what they've done so far in acquiring personnel, but this element is concerning and I don't believe it's the most effective way to assemble talent. It's a recipe for letting talent slip through the cracks. 

If it turns out that they threw out the baby with the bathwater in the Oliver or Scott moves after already alienating a host of players with the supposed Tebow deal... wow.  It will get ugly around that locker room in a hurry.

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