(09-25-2023, 07:46 PM)StrayaJag Wrote:

(09-25-2023, 07:22 PM)carp8dm Wrote: I hate this type of nonsense.

You realize that there are 31 other teams that also pay their players, right?

Your coaches, the management, decides whether the practices are good enough.  They also decide who is going to get plays and who the plays should be focused on.  They also decide what scheme we will run and how to run an offense based on down/distance/time of game.

Last year our players got paid just the same as this year.  And yet last year our team was exceptional, even when we were losing.  

Last year's team would smoke this years team.  And last year's team has the same players, for the most part.

So, what's changed?  The players are almost identical.  And yet we look like trash.  Maybe the coaches have changed responsibilities and those changes have resulted in poor management and poor overall decision making?  Is that so profound?  That coaching/managing is a huge factor in holding players accountable?

LOL.  You guys kill me.  It's obvious this team sucks.  This is the same team as last year.  And yet we suck all of a sudden.  What's changed??

Doug gave up control of the offense.  That has changed.  And it's obvious this team no longer has the passion they did last year.  Same players playing the same positions.  The thing that changed is that the coaches are no longer coaching their same jobs.  There was a change at the top.  And here we are.

It's not that hard to figure out.

Did the team also have this many dropped balls/fumbles then last year ?

There execution on the basics has been dog [BLEEP] and u have to acknowledge that

I don't have ESPN money to actually spend money to confirm it...  But Zay Jones, who was a baller for us last year, and one of my favorite players, had 12 drops last year, which led the league... https://blackandteal.com/posts/jaguars-s...jones-2023

And if our #2 WR led the league in drops per targets, then it would assume that we had our fair share of drops last year.

And, on top of that, let's face it, our O-Line last year was just as bad as it is this year.  It's not like last year's O-Line was something special.  It wasn't.

You know what was different last year?  Our play calling.  We had defenses on their heels.  They didn't know whether we were running, screening (which by the way we rarely did last year) or going with a crossing mid route concept with a streaker on the sidelines.

Our offense last year was dynamic.  It was inspired.  It was amazing.  This offense is trash.  It just is.  You can just watch how crappy we are. 

I just don't get how anyone looks at what we are doing this year and think it looks anything like what we did last year.

It's changed.  And we still have the same players.  So why did we change what was working?

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