(03-15-2024, 12:45 PM)snarkyguy_he_him_his Wrote:

(03-15-2024, 12:24 PM)Caldrac Wrote: Correct. This is an admission of failure. However, to be fair, both of these decisions were made by two completely different General Managers. Ran Carthon took over the General Manager role in Jan. of 2023. AJ Brown was traded the year prior under Jon Robinson's tenure. 

The only common denominator is ownership here. Amy Adams Strunk allowed a lot of this to take place. They're in a rebuilding phase. They believe they have their QB of the future in Will Levis. They have to try and give the kid a chance so Ridley was their best option. 

I still think, however, firing Mike Vrabel was a grave mistake. Also, they still have DeAndre Hopkins for one more year, and, he wasn't ALL that bad last year. They can also choose to draft one of the top receivers available next month. I wouldn't sleep on this football team at all.

Could easily be the 2023 clots in our division for the year 2024, pushing their play-off hopes alive all the way through the final whistle of week 18. Also, lawd have mercy if they [BLEEP] around and end up drafting Brock Bowers. I am telling you now. Bowers in this division with Levis' ability to scramble, break tackles and chuck it does not bode well for this division in the long run.

Levis sucks as does Tennessee and the Oilers

Yep. Annnnnnnd how many of us were singing the exact same tune last off season when the tinhorns drafted Stroud? Telling you man. If it's anything I have learned over the years watching the NFL? It loves it's parity. 

There's at least on average four to six new teams in the play-off mix every year. That team was scrappy last season. Sometimes new blood, with a new approach and a new coaching staff can redefine itself and redefine itself quickly. 

That same team you said sucks? Guess what? We had to beat them in 2022 to get into the post season and it was a dog fight and they kept us out of it last year in in the finale of the season. We should all know better by now but I digress.

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(03-15-2024, 12:47 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(03-15-2024, 12:24 PM)Caldrac Wrote: Correct. This is an admission of failure. However, to be fair, both of these decisions were made by two completely different General Managers. Ran Carthon took over the General Manager role in Jan. of 2023. AJ Brown was traded the year prior under Jon Robinson's tenure. 

The only common denominator is ownership here. Amy Adams Strunk allowed a lot of this to take place. They're in a rebuilding phase. They believe they have their QB of the future in Will Levis. They have to try and give the kid a chance so Ridley was their best option. 

I still think, however, firing Mike Vrabel was a grave mistake. Also, they still have DeAndre Hopkins for one more year, and, he wasn't ALL that bad last year. They can also choose to draft one of the top receivers available next month. I wouldn't sleep on this football team at all.

Could easily be the 2023 clots in our division for the year 2024, pushing their play-off hopes alive all the way through the final whistle of week 18. Also, lawd have mercy if they [BLEEP] around and end up drafting Brock Bowers. I am telling you now. Bowers in this division with Levis' ability to scramble, break tackles and chuck it does not bode well for this division in the long run.

I expect them to be at the bottom of the division this year largely because I think ownership is bad and they seem to be making bad decisions in succession which usually doesn't end well.  Much will depend on if Will Levis is the guy.  I liked him better than most coming out, but I don't like him so much to say that he's necessarily a top 20 QB in the league.  They are kinda all in this year with him assuming they don't draft a new QB at 7.  Calvin and Nuk are going to get caught by father time sometime between now and the next couple of years so it looks like they are counting on Will to deliver this year which I don't see happening.

I think they find out this year that he'll likely never ascend to top 10 status and then find themselves in QB purgatory for a while because they won't be awful enough to earn a top 5 pick next year either. Poor tittians.

We'll see. Ridley just took some father time away from Hopkins by being his counterpart and taking pressure off of him. Ridley had at least two years of father time frozen in time. 

Won't make that mistake again man. This team, whether we like it or not, it's our giant's bane. Had to overcome them in 2022 to get the 4th seed and division secured. We had to beat them in 2023 to essentially do it again and they waxed our [BLEEP] and then some. 

You can hate your rivals while also respecting the fact that nothing comes easy. Especially when we play them.

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