(11-22-2023, 10:35 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(11-22-2023, 10:18 AM)SeldomRite Wrote: Not really sure about the ascending part. Looking at the last couple of drafts I think the Jaguars are probably already as good as they get until they find a new GM that can evaluate talent.

I know there's no dissuading people who are locked into the "I hate Baalke" position, but my present opinion is, I would not try to replace the GM that, in about 2 seasons, took this team from worst in the league to top-10 or better.  

Other successful GMs have massive failures routinely.  Look at John Lynch in San Francisco with the deal that landed them Trey Lance.  What a disaster that was.  And look at the Chiefs with the Jawaan Taylor deal.  That was a terrible deal.  

Seriously, I don't know what we're complaining about.  Some people seem to want every move to be perfect and the team to immediately go from worst to first and win the Super Bowl.

I agree to some extent. Every team is going to have some swings and misses. It's just math at the end of the day. Those teams often find ways to overcome those mistakes though. Nobody cares about the Trey Lance failure when you backfilled his job with Mr. Irrelevant and you still have guys like McCaffrey, Kittle, Aiyuk, Samuel & Williams on offense with Bosa, Warner and now Young on defense.

Kansas City still has a 7 - 3 record and is only 1 game behind Baltimore for the 1 seed. I don't think anybody cares about the Taylor signing when they're seeing guys like McDuffie, Sneed, Gay, Karlaftis and Jones getting it done enough on defense. They should have beat the Eagles. Mahomes tossed an endzone INT, Kelce fumbled inside the 10 and Scantling dropped a perfect TD pass to take the win. 

They also found guys like Pacheco late last year and Rice this year at WR. Sky Moore, Noah, etc. We'll have our moment as a football team. Hell, it might be our year for all we know. We'll see more of it become a reality hopefully this Sunday with a win in Houston. If not? We're still ascending.

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(11-22-2023, 10:40 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(11-22-2023, 10:35 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I know there's no dissuading people who are locked into the "I hate Baalke" position, but my present opinion is, I would not try to replace the GM that, in about 2 seasons, took this team from worst in the league to top-10 or better.  

Other successful GMs have massive failures routinely.  Look at John Lynch in San Francisco with the deal that landed them Trey Lance.  What a disaster that was.  And look at the Chiefs with the Jawaan Taylor deal.  That was a terrible deal.  

Seriously, I don't know what we're complaining about.  Some people seem to want every move to be perfect and the team to immediately go from worst to first and win the Super Bowl.

Don't forget the part where they focus more on a stat line than on watching a particular player play and go "Aha!  See I knew he was terrible."

This I also agree with. That stat buffs around here or out there. I only care about the Wins and Losses columns. This team has been winning plenty since last year. That's all that matters. Whether you win pretty or win ugly. A win's a win.

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