Quote:Whhhhhhaat? Who are these guys who knew Leftwich would never make it after 13 starts? I'll tell you who, they are either rainman style savants or flat out liars. Going into 2005 this was Byron's team.

 

I disagree, by 2005 it became obvious that Byron wasn't going to be able to cut it, (the last straw for me was the 2005 Patriots playoff game), but there most certainly were enough signs pointing to that conclusion well before that game. Byron wasn't doing all that great in 2005, (good yes, great? no) - IMO it was an EXTREMELY easy schedule that year if you don't remember....think 2013 weeks 9 through 16 but longer. The Jags won 12 games that year largely because of that. Byron only looked like a decent NFL starter that year because of that. 

 

A HUGE red flag for me about Leftwich was in 2004 when we were GOOSE-EGGED at home by a BAD Texans team when we had a playoff berth on the line. I don't fault Leftwich for losing that game, but I do fault him for presiding over such an anemicly ineffective offense. It was something that plagued him all too much over his Jags career, and with Freddy T and Jimmy Smith there, there was zero excuse for that. 

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