(09-02-2024, 12:14 AM)JagFanatic24 Wrote:

(08-31-2024, 07:03 AM)Caldrac Wrote: Firing Coughlin was the biggest mistake in Franchise history. He should have been treated here the same way Pittsburgh treated Bill Cowher. The man provided your brand new franchise in a small market with four straight years of impressive seasons and appearances. He was eventually going to hit a little slump, just like Cowher did between 1998 - 2000. Pittsburgh's patience eventually paid off and they were back to winning games in no time and finally won a Superbowl. 

You don't give up on winners or people of Coughlin's caliber. I am sorry. He had it right for awhile. There should have been a better push from Weaver to get Coughlin help in the personnel department. I understand he wanted control of the roster, and that was what really did him in with the salary cap.

However, again, the fact that he went onto win two Superbowl's, against, let's face it, two of the more impressive Patriot's teams and better Brady individual season's? He was the right guy for the job all along. We [BLEEP] up. We really did. It's something that I think about off and on from time to time. 

The whole situation in 2017, again, he had it half right and wrong. He proved he's a better coach than general manager or operations leader. His biggest blunder was extending Bortles before taking care of the defense and defenders that carried the team in 2017. His other biggest blunder was selecting Fournette over McCaffrey and Watson. The other blunder being Taven Bryan over Lamar Jackson.

But, when you think you have your QB? You think you have your QB. [BLEEP] happens. A lot of teams make that mistake. At any rate. Jacksonville has spent years chasing his legacy that he left mark on us all back in the 90's. We're somewhat getting back to that level of consistency with Pederson. We'll see if he can get it back on track in 2024. I will say this, as many have already hinted at in this thread.

Getting rid of Pederson or thinking he's on a hot seat after the years and years of nonsense that Khan tolerated with Bradley and Caldwell? Pederson's [BLEEP] is far from hot with his seat. He's safe. Probably through the remainder of this decade at the minimum if he chooses to stay here.

You hit the nail right on the head. One of, if not the biggest mistake in franchise history. That 1999 season was amazing when we went 14-2. Went into the playoffs and blowed the top off against the Dolphins, in front of a crowd of about 70,000. 

The 1996 season was magical. Going up to Buffalo and big Clyde Simmons got it kick-started. Natrone Means busted loose for 62 yards. Went to Denver the following week for one of the biggest upsets in NFL history. Went to New England and was on the goal line, in position to tie the score up at 13-13 in the 4th quarter. 

The 1997 is when Jimmy and Keenan started wrecking the league. And then 1998 we got Taylor and Darius. Taylor dazzled that entire season. 

It all started with Tom Coughlin. 

I went back and looked at the 2000 season, and we were very close to making the playoffs for the 5th straight season. One game that sticks out in my mind was the Bengals game in the snow, Hollis slipped on a missed FG, and we let Peter Warrick return a punt for a TD. I think Taylor averaged 107 rushing yards for the season. 

Coughlin left Jax and went on to win 2 Super Bowls against the best Football Dynasty of all-time in the Patriots.

I've heard a lot of interviews/reports of Coughlin's time with the Giants. It took the owner John Mara and some well respected vets including Strahan going and convincing him to change some of his ways to finally get success in NY. But when he returned to Jacksonville as EVP, some of those same tendencies reverted back and he had no one to basically confront him and tell him ease up. I'm not sure there would have been anyone to convince him to ease up he had just staying with Jacksonville throughout the 00's and 10's.

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