(01-09-2024, 04:16 PM)Khan Artist Wrote: Khan has employed two GMs during his time as Jaguars HC.  The team has gone 60-135 during that span.

We are currently one of the most expensive rosters in the NFL.  The last two drafts have produced two to three average to good starters.

We went 9-8 last season, and our GM made the decision that we were going to run it back with virtually no change.  Guess what?  We're 9-8 again.

Our franchise QB just experienced an injury-filled season that certainly affected his play, and this can directly be attributed to our GM doing nothing to fix glaring IOL issues.

Our DL is also quite weak, with a total inability to produce pressure.  

Even the Tyson Campbell pick has to be called into question now.

So Khan is just going to keep rolling with this, I guess.  Baalke has never had success anywhere he's been, and he has successfully taken a clean slate (multiple picks in high rounds and the most cap space in the NFL after Caldwell's firing) and turned it into an expensive and underachieving mess.

He had a decent run of success in San Francisco. It just came crashing down due to clashing ego's with him and Harbaugh. It was a negative aspect to him that followed him everywhere around the NFL and it was a primary driving force as to what was taking so long to get Doug Pederson hired here to begin with back in 2022. 

Started with Pederson, then they went on a round robin crusade to find Meyer's replacement, the sticking point was "Baalke has to be here" while other candidates were calling for him to go prior to stepping foot inside Jacksonville's front office. 

He really needs to go, but, he's not. Khan is a [BLEEP]. This is his nature, his historical decision making since taking ownership tells you this about him. He'll see back-to-back 9-8 seasons as a success story, in spite of everything you listed above with Lawrence getting absolutely hammered this year physically and mentally with the rest of the team clearly regressing. 

This past season exposed this team for what it was last season and again this past season. It's an overpriced, middling football team that needs a ton of lucky bounces and breaks to get into the post season. When they actually had a tougher schedule to contest with? They folded like a lawn chair in every single outing. 

Doug sugarcoated his expectations a little bit when hired on, stating it wasn't an overnight fix, and, to an extent, he was right, however, when you go 9 - 8 and manage to win at least one play-off game? You have to do more to build upon that and they didn't do it. The 2023 draft class and next to nothing being done in the 2023 free agency market speaks volumes to three things:

1. Khan's complacency. 
2. Baalke's incompetency. 
3. Pederson's laidback personality. 

We have three people in three very important and critical positions in this sport and none of them are willingly comfortable enough to strike while the iron is hot and comfortable enough to rock the boat to get the crew back on course and to tighten up the ship. 

We went from one extreme to the other and complacency, incompetency and being laidback kills. Everybody was waiting on a spark to happen this past season just like last season. That spark was already provided in 2022, it was there job's to keep hammering away at it like a master blacksmith with a deliberate goal of continuing to fold and shape this team into a strong contender.

Instead? They decided the product was finished and ready to be placed in the bucket of water to cool off for showing and sale. They all collectively failed this team and fanbase just like that in one off season. Some of us saw this coming earlier, the expectations were tempered back just a little bit, I had expected them to barely win enough to finish as a 4th seed again. However, nobody expected Houston to do what they did and that was what ultimately resulted in the final result. 

We needed 10 in 2023 instead of 9 like we did in 2022. That's all it boils down to. They could have had that 10 win mark and then some had they addressed the obvious needs on both sides of the football. They flat out ignored it.

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