(01-08-2025, 04:54 PM)OG-JAGFAN Wrote:

(01-06-2025, 10:59 PM)Eric1 Wrote: The ultimate team sport with 22 players on the field at all times, but yes it's solely on one person and nobody else... LOL Sure thing bud.

It is a QB driven league.  The 6 figure man should excel the team.  He can't do it on his own but he has to be atleast playing well.  Trevor wasn't even average in 2024 but instead of looking at #16 you pass the buck to everyone else.  Take his sack away from your chin and look objectively.  I watched nearly every Jaguar Snap this year.  Lawrence play was very mediocre and he missed way too many passes.  I don't see the broacast crew calling out Pat Mahomes or Josh Allen for missing wide open receivers or just failing to see a receiver wide open because Lawrence locked onto one target.  It don't see Mahomes and Elite Qb's throw into triple coverage or throw the ball 5 yards over the receivers head.  I don't see Elite Qb's throw bullets 10 yards away and wonder why the receivers drop the ball so much.   Drops actually decreased with Mac Jones because he knows how to put a soft touch on a Pass.

I am just sick of seeing people like you blame everyone and everything else but number 16.  He is getting paid like a top 5 QB and should be playing like it.  Lawrence didn't even play like a top 15 Qb this year but yet we keep seeing people like you on the defense force.  The team Stunk and so did Lawrence.  Both can be true.  Your angle is Lawrence played poor because of the team but most people including me am not buying that BS anymore.  Lawrence has not played good enough period.  Even if he didn't get hurt his number trajectory was bottom of the barrel.  I remember many games that he didn't even Look Thomas way for entire half's.  He's not the prince that was promised and more and more people's eyes are opening to it.

I'll play along with this narrative. The QB position is important, that's obvious. Last year in the draft I was hoping they would have drafted a guy like Joe Milton from Tennessee. This year's draft I am hoping they're taking a look at Jaxson Dart out of Ole' Miss. Especially with how this team has failed to protect Lawrence.

The argument though, that, "He hasn't played good enough period". That's a load of [BLEEP]. The team went 9 - 8 with him in 2022 with competent coaching. The team went 8 - 3 with him in 2023 prior to the injuries racking up on him, which then carried over into 2024. So, the team manages to win football games when he's playing.

Which means he's playing good enough. The idea that he wasn't looking Brian Thomas Jr's way is also nonsense. Because a lot of us, including myself, absolutely [BLEEP] cooked Lawrence back on the 29th of September, in week four, where missed him twice for touchdowns. The play he was also sacked for a safety against Cleveland, he was looking his way as well. Just couldn't block worth a [BLEEP] to give him enough time in the pocket for the double move to work on that route.

I like you. But, at this point, you're just pulling nonsense out of your [BLEEP]. Who are you replacing him with in 2025 anyway? Because the QB prospects are not all that great, you're certainly NOT drafting a guy at #5 that's better than him. I can understand finding a young, promising back-up to develop on day three. That's about it.

Darnold is not coming here. Rodgers is cooked. Cousins is cooked. Watson is cooked. Who the [BLEEP] are you replacing Lawrence with? That's my easiest counter argument. Who else is going to come in here and handle this mess the way this kid has for the past four years? It sure as [BLEEP] wasn't Mac Jones.

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