In defense of Shad Khan.

The dude gets a bad rap. Yeah, he held on to Gus Bradley too long. But the hire was a good hire, in theory. A young and up coming DC that was credited with the Legion of Boom in Seattle. He stayed on too long, for sure. But let's just think that Shad is a patient man. He fired Mularkey and Meyer within 1 season.

But he hired both those coaches looking for certain things. Mularkey was supposed to be a tried and true HC with experience in the NFL. It didn't work. He was fired after 1 season. Urban Myer, which many fans thought was the correct hire, was vastly sought after college HC that had success in several stints throughout high level college programs. He clearly was a douche bag, I hated the hire, but it was a decision many thought was a good fit. Shad [BLEEP] canned him within 1 season.

The Marrone fiasco started out OK, but he clearly wasn't able to get the best out of the players. He lasted a few years because he kept showing growth with the team, untill the complete disaster wrough by Tom "golden boy of jacksonville" Coughlin decided he'd rather blow up the defense and give a huge contract to a clearly unworthy QB.

Shad has made many decisions that can come to question. But he's tried to get the best people here. Now, with the Doug Pederson experiment, my first choice was Lefty... But when we hired Doug, I thought that was pretty good decision. And after 2022, it looked like the move that was going to turn around the franchise.

It obviously hasn't. Doug and his Offensive stooges have to go after this season.

But I have confidence that Shad is going to do the right thing here. He's not a feckless owner. But what's better, he's also not an owner that overpowers the team or the narrative of the team. He's tried several approaches to brining in the right people to run the team. He hasn't delivered yet. But I think he's got a good handle on what needs to happen next.

This is not a disfunctional franchise. It's just a franchise that got a new owner and has been trying his best to find the right recipe. I have confidence that the next moves this offseason will begin to turn this disaster around.

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