(08-31-2021, 09:09 AM)TheDuke007 Wrote:

(08-30-2021, 09:36 PM)Bullseye Wrote: Right now, Jones is better than Campbell, and is certainly better than just about any 6th rounder we could hope to draft.

A little disappointment is expected.

Granted, this team is very early into a longer term rebuild, so it makes some sense to accumulate draft picks.

Nevertheless, I don't see the gain in trading Jones.

[Emphasis added.]  The problem is that we can't keep trading existing players for draft picks that are highly likely to result in lesser talent.  That's not the way to rebuild.  In fact, that's a great strategy to remain a rebuilding team indefinitely.

Agreed completely.

As I said earlier, the odds of getting a 6th rounder to produce at Sidney Jone' level is low.  Granted, Jones did not have a good game against the Saints.  But for the bulk of his Jaguars career, he vastly outperformed a 6th round pick.

At this point, I have to think Baalke intends to stockpile picks to move up in the next draft.  If that is the ultimate goal, then I might be okay with this.

But if not, if the goal is to just stockpile 3rd day picks for no apparent reason, then it was a mistake getting rid of Jones, even with the bad game against New Orleans.

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(08-31-2021, 09:31 AM)Sibelius Wrote:

(08-31-2021, 07:17 AM)Bullseye Wrote: https://twitter.com/BCBCouch/status/1432...96293?s=20

With Baalke it makes sense. Stockpiling all the day 3 picks allows him to grab up all the guys with torn ACLs that no other team will touch.

But he's willing to do that with second and third round picks (Walker Little, Cisco).  If only he were willing to do that with the Tennessee OG that went to KC.  But he had no torn ACL

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(08-31-2021, 09:19 AM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(08-30-2021, 10:22 PM)JAGs Nation Wrote: All I saw during the 3 preseason games was Sydney Jones getting torched ... Time after time.  If he was scheduled to get cut tomorrow, getting something for him is a great move.  What I saw wasn't worth keeping, especially have the 1st waiver claim on every player waived.

People that didn't like this move our the guys that didn't watch the preseason games and just remembered the couple good games he had with us last year.  His play regressed more than any player on the team from last year and not to mention the injury history

I know he had a bad game against New Orleans.

But he's had way more good games with us than bad, and the odds are he'll be better than any 6th rounder we could get.

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