(03-08-2024, 08:20 AM)NH3 Wrote:

(03-08-2024, 07:57 AM)Caldrac Wrote: Man, I really hate to sound doom and gloom, but, I doubt this team is making it back to the play off's after the conclusion of the 2024 season. I just don't have any confidence nor do I believe in this coaching staff and front office at the moment.

The most troubling aspect to me, is that, you heard the coach saying "Our best five lineman didn't start together until the final game of the season, you need continuity" so, so far, the solution is to... run the same five lineman back? With said durability concerns and challenges?

I don't know guys. I just don't know. Feel like this little rollercoaster of momentum this team had in 2022 and stalled out at the top of the track in 2023 is fixing to slowly start falling backwards instead of pushing forward in the right direction.

Just a really, really bad feeling. Early season prediction, and, you can call me a doomsayer, or, a fool, doesn't matter. Just putting it out there. I think this team will be lucky to win six games in 2024. Hear me now, believe me later. Fixing to be a long off season and an even longer year.

Sorry folks.

We all have our own respected opinions BUT the highlighted statement in my opinion is what truly hurt our Jaguars down the stretch. OL injuries cost us a playoff birth for 2023. Repairing such an issue is already in place and hopefully the OL will have Much Better health in 2024.

Time Will Tell.

NH3...

I can live with Cleveland and Scherff playing. It's the whole situation in the Center of it all. Fortner has been the most durable, yet, the most disappointing player out of that line-up. 

Failing to upgrade that position between now and April is criminal to me. Robinson and Little at LT are still concerning. You're bringing back Anton Harrison who fought through a shoulder injury all year, hopefully he holds up. 

You're really relying on Cooper Hodges, another guy that you took in the 7th RD last year and also off of IR to help out. They're going to need to do something on the backend with this group. 

You cannot convince me otherwise. Even if you replaced Fortner, you still need viable, competent and ready-to-go NOW players to fill in when the inevitable happens to somebody in this current group for the third or fourth straight year in a row. 

We need stronger interior players that can start or push the starters during practice all week. One slip up? One major hit to Lawrence and it has everybody's buttholes puckering in fear like we saw MULTIPLE times last year? To the bench you must go. And it's on Baalke and Pederson to find the guys ready to go when that happens. 

Because as it stands right now? It's going to happen...

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