(08-08-2021, 01:19 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(08-08-2021, 01:15 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: He was great in college, has all the tools, and showed week 1 what's he's capable of as a rookie.  He got hurt and missed over the whole 2md half of the season.  He's just got to stay healthy and want to play

His "want to play" was more the reason than "he was hurt" for his missed time last year. He was suffering from "Ramsey's Strain".

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(08-08-2021, 01:18 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: Oh, okay so if someone says, gators never live up to their draft status with the Jaguars, and I name one that did, that proves that they never do?

Yes, that's what my quip means, that one success in a sea of failures doesn't change the overall outcome. You know this.

So, Bobby McCray, and Willie Jackson?  I wonder how many exceptions we can have and still "prove the rule."  Now if the statement had been "gators hardly ever live up to their draft status with the Jaguars," that I might go along with.  But I do know English and I do know what the word "never" means.   "Never" does not come with any possibility of an exception.  

But with that in mind, I would add, we've had a lot of players who failed to live up to their draft status.  Not just gators.

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