(10-28-2024, 10:34 AM)JagFan81 Wrote:

(10-28-2024, 12:42 AM)JagFanatic24 Wrote: I’ll stand alone on this one. I’ve been through the brand new version of the Jaguars in 1995, one of the best teams in the NFL from 1996 until about 2001. Del Rio came in and gave us the the good defensive teams. I went through the Gus Bradley era where we became the laughing stock of the league. Doug Marrone era gives us 1 good season. Urban Meyer stunk the place up, and in comes Doug to give us back to back winning seasons and a playoff appearance in his 1st year. This year reminds me of the 2000 season where  a play here and there changes the outcome of the season.

The Etienne fumble against Miami, the safety against the Browns. The dropped TDs, the interceptions. Your number 1 CB and LB out with injuries, your number 1 TE has missed time, your all pro return man went down. The interior defensive line being non existent, which is completely out of the head coaches control when a player lines up and gets whipped.

The defensive coordinator just didn’t work out. The personnel didn’t match. Brown is a lifelong backup but he’s your starter. Cisco is struggling in the man scheme. Johnson is seeing the field because Wingard has been injured.

Muma has been forced to play and he definitely don’t fit a man to man scheme.

Armstead was a swing and a miss. RRH was worse than Fatukasi was last year.

The offense scored 27 points today and lost. The defense is right up there with the worst it’s ever been. This secondary ain’t scaring anybody.

Coughlin was ran off too soon, I ain’t firing him. He knows what it takes to win a championship and I’m not giving the keys to another Gus Bradley for 50 games until a decision is made.

The Jaguars make the playoffs in back to back seasons if McManus just makes his FG against the Bengals last year.

It’s been a rough season, but I owe him at minimum 1 season to get it back on track.

I applaud you for this post. It's an unpopular opinion right now but it's something that needs to be remembered. Doug walked into to the biggest dumpster fire we've ever been. Back to back #1 picks, a bad roster, the Urban experience. We've had some bad times but that was the lowest of the lows. He turned the team around very quickly and overachieved with a mix of young guys and FA pickups. Last year started amazingly and we all know the late season collapse but it was our first back to back winning seasons in over 20 years. It's an embarrassing stat but something many other HC's have failed to achieve for us.

Baalke needs to go. No question about that. Nielsen is a dead man walking barring some miracle turnaround. The O is so hard to judge now we have this Pederson/Press blurring of responsibilities but the O has shown its good and bad. If we bring in a GM that feels they can work with Doug and hell work with some changes to his staff and Doug wants to stay and fight, I wouldn't be stunned to see him get one more year.

It's easy to say get rid of Doug and if your bringing in someone like Ben Johnson then great, but if it's another teams trash, is it a step up or another sideway move and we're here again in 2 years?

I agree. If McManus makes his FGs in Cincy last year then we wouldn’t be having these discussions. It ain’t the coaches fault the kicker couldn’t make his FG. 

As a Jaguars fan, if a coach gives me a winning season 2 years in a row, then I at least owe him 1 season to get it back on track. 

As a Jaguars fan, I’m not in a position to turn my nose up to the only Head Coach in Jaguars just that has a won Super Bowl Championship ring with any team. As a Jaguars fan, I’m also not in a position to turn my back on a head coach that came in and helped us get to the playoffs in his 1st season. I’m also not in a position to turn my back on a head coach that helped the Jaguars a playoff game in his 1st season, and then start the next season off with a record of 8-3. 

A question for all Jaguars fans: Can we at least give him 1 season to get it right? He’s earned some good faith credit with what he did after taking over what Urban created.

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