(03-02-2022, 08:15 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(03-02-2022, 11:32 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: No. I think these are legitimately viable candidates that Baalke will target based on his time as GM of San Francisco. 

I wasn't this bitter when I actually thought Khan cared about winning. He manipulated fans into believing he would make major changes in order to get this team back on track for 2022. Now that that isn't happening for at least another season, I'm ticked off! It's frustrating to see fans who were just as angry during the season, now settle back into complete apathy and unwilling to hold Khan accountable for his deception. Some of the people on this board have a "Cleveland Browns" mentality. You've become so used to the abuse that this team inflicts on it's fanbase that you just lie down and take it. I've been a fan of this team since it was announced that Jacksonville was getting a franchise and it's been since 2007, that I've even thought that we've had a chance to be decent. That's entirely too long. We had one fluke year 2017 and anything good that came of that got dashed when we lost all of our top players. We have the worst franchise of any major sports team, because the owner just doesn't care. As long as he's making money, all is right in the world for him. I long for the days when Wayne Weaver owned this team. At least he gave a crap.

Well, FWIW, the buzz is that the Jaguars will be aggressive in free agency...and this is coming from Pederson and Baalke themselves.

Pederson mentioned he wanted to re=sign Cam Robinson and DJ Chark.

Even though I created this very thread, I can see the wisdom in retaining Robinson.  I've long been a Chark proponent.

I've gotten the sense that whether they resign Chark and Cam or not, they will go after bigger name players, as opposed to the flaccid and disappointing approach we saw last year.

Whether this translates into actually signing any of the guys they want, much less showing improvement/Khan's desire to win remains to be seen.

But the tabling of the FVP aside, I like what I've heard thus far.

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(03-02-2022, 07:25 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: The guy is 72 years old for God's sake. That trumps being tall and fat. 

I'm not trying to down play anything. I just don't know how jumping and doing splits on boxes is supposed to translate to being a good NFL player.

I think it's supposed to be an indicia of his explosiveness, just like the vertical and broad jump in the combine.

But I'm disappointed in Neal not working out, because the drills at the combine are supposed to measure lateral quickness in linemen, among other things.

Grammar police on patrol here, Bullseye.  I'm only telling you this because you're obviously a very smart guy, probably the best writer on this board, unexcelled in content and composition.   But I gotta say it, because you done this quite a few times, and I think you'd like to know.  


"Indicia" is plural for "indication."  You can't have "an" indicia.  


As to your description of last year's free agency as "...flaccid and disappointing...," those are exactly the words I would use.  I was very surprised last year when we drafted Trevor and hired Meyer and then didn't try very hard in free agency, even though Meyer said he wanted to win immediately.  I remember Meyer talking about how good our roster looked, and what I think happened was, he really had no idea what an NFL roster looked like.  And since he was used to college players, he took a look at our guys and thought he could win a bunch of games (due of course to his magical coaching ability).  Meyer basically said there was no "re-building" necessary, and that it was a one-year plan, which was obviously a supreme level of overconfidence in his own abilities and a lack of understanding of what a good NFL roster should look like.

I really thought Meyer would be a good coach.  Maybe that was just my natural optimism.  Man, was I wrong.  Waaaaay wrong.

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