(02-21-2023, 01:14 PM)Mikey Wrote:

(02-20-2023, 10:26 PM)SeldomRite Wrote: Just an FYI, but it took Smith 8 seasons before he had a single season with as many as 20 TDs, and only three such seasons in his sixteen season career. Furthermore, it took him seven seasons to get to the playoffs.

Did you ever see Alex Smith lead a 27 point comeback?

That you'd have such a laughable lack of perspective isn't surprising.

maybe you can sell the rights to your username!

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(02-21-2023, 09:10 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: T-Wigg is cool. His podcast is usually good. He's worth following for sure. 

He's missing two things badly in this episode. He's stuck on paying a guy "more than he's worth" as if it is some important validation of his Josh Allen take. 

It's not.

NFL rosters are probably anywhere from 20-40% made up of guys being paid more than they are worth. 
Overpaying Allen could indeed be a problem, I'm not going to deny that. But he's too hung up on that notion.
Just bake in a team friendly out clause in the contract. Get out in 2 years if he doesn't produce. It's common language in many deals these days. 

Secondly - he doesn't really address the fact that there is no actual plan to replace Allen's productivity and the Jaguars very recently endured an 8 year drought of not being able to find a pass rusher at either edge or DE position. 

After a brief showing of decent pass rush from Paul Spicer and Bobby McCray - they waited EIGHT YEARS to find Yannick Ngakoue.   
Are we ready to kick Allen to the curb and risk that kind of ineptitude for years on end again? 

I also noticed at one point he seemed to assert that pressures/hurries from Allen didn't end up in incompletions when I can remember two such plays just from the week 18 and the LAC game. Both quite meaningful. 

Anyway - Gonna be interesting to see if Allen gets a deal and if he steps up - deal or no deal. 

Personally - I still 100% feel that with Williams and Campbell outside, you add a quality nickel and find some push up the middle front a 3 tech and Walker+Allen will have a jump in sacks numbers. The coverage buys them half of a tick longer to get home, and some push in the middle feeds them flushed quarterbacks a bit more often. 

That plan ^ feels like it will be easier than landing a double digit sack guy in the draft.

The fact of the matter is that you either pay Allen more than he's worth, or you pay a different guy more than he's worth to replace Allen.

Welcome to the business of football