(09-03-2021, 08:05 AM)NH3 Wrote:

(09-02-2021, 09:26 AM)TheDuke007 Wrote: I got the exact same response when I hated the Quincy Williams draft pick.  The former third rounder just got cut after contributing extremely little to the team.  Sometimes the fans are right.  Head coaches and general managers get fired all the time.  Baalke got fired as general manager when his team progressively kept getting worse and worse and worse over time.  Just because you have the title, it doesn't necessarily mean you are good at it.  Even if you are good at it, it still doesn't mean that you can't be wrong on one decision.  I think people on this board should absolutely question every decision.  Agree with it if you like it.  Disagree with it if you hate it.  That's the whole point of the board.  If I just wanted to hear the Jaguars talking points, I can read an article on Jaguars.com.  You don't need a message board for it.  People who just blindly agree with every decision quickly lose credibility with me and I don't value their opinions very much.

Let's add Blake Bortles, Taven Bryan, Nick Foles, etc. to this list. 

We ALL have opinions and I personally respect each and every one of them. The fact of the matter is that Boo Coo fans have an tendency to be Pessimistic when team's decisions doesn't reflect their personal wish list(s). If the front office appeased each and every wish list, where would this team be? 

I said that to say this. There's millions of wish lists and only 3-5 front office personnel per team that makes the overall decisions. Respect their decisions until you can't anymore. This regime is unproven at this point to which we as Fans need to support said decisions instead of slandering because they the front office made a decision that they individually don't like.

I'm an Optimist as everyone can TELL of which My Glass is more than half full. At this point our team (in its infancy) needs Optimism, not Pessimism.

Also, the value of one person's  opinion of another person's opinion is simply an opinion. We ALL have that right. Do we not?

NH3...

I just used Quincy Williams since he's the most recent example.  There's plenty of other cases where some fans were right and the team was right.  The Jaguars have mostly struggled over the last ten years.  The people who have mostly been negative on here have also mostly been right.  The people who blindly defended the team were mostly wrong.  History is overwelmingly on the side of the people you are criticizing.

There's some people who only want to hear good news.  While I prefer good news to bad news, I want the truth.  I would rather listen to bad news that is true versus good news that is false, one-sided, unsubstantiated or misleading.  If someone only wants to hear positives about the Jaguars, then I suggest that they read the O-zone or other articles on Jaguars.com.  You don't need a message board for that.  To me, the whole point of a message board is to get diverse opinions and opinions are only meaningful if they are honest.  If you think the Jaguars should do X and they do Y and then you blindly defend Y, then you are not being honest.  If someone wants to do that, fine.  I would just like them to understand that if their goal is change people's minds, it's helpful to be credible.  If someone 100% always blindly defends the Jaguars, their opinions aren't credible.  While there may be an occasional troll on this board, I think most of the regulars are just being honest when they criticize the Jaguars.  They shouldn't be criticized for that.

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