(01-10-2025, 03:04 PM)cland Wrote:

(01-10-2025, 09:07 AM)Mikey Wrote: ?!?!?!

I think you're right, the division WAS awful and we missed a golden opportunity to take advantage. How many games did we start out down 2 scores before we even crossed midfield? How many times did we call boneheaded plays at the absolute worst times? How many times did the D force a turnover and put us in prime position to shift momentum our way?

There's a reason the coach got fired. Shad realized the exact same thing you did, and there's no explaining why we did the miserable things we did when we did them. The team failed to use the talent we had in a way to capitalize on a weak division. We repeatedly put our team in position to fail and had no answer when teams found ways to whoop our hides.

Kyler Murray is a #1 pick. Bryce Young is a #1 pick. Maybe you are expecting too much of one person? Do you think Mahomes would thrive in what we purported to be an offense last season? Burrow? who?

The correct answer is that both Mahomes and Burrow would both outperform Lawrence in the Jags 2024 offense, and you can several other names to that list.  If that can't be agreed to, then you've hopelessly driven off a cliff.

But is our expectation that our #1 QB just outperform the 2024 stats, or is it that we obliterate those marks? How do you think Murray, Young, heck, Herbert, Tua or other top ten QB fare?

I think we can all agree that Mahomes and Burrow are the two best QB in the league, and yes, everyone should expect them to maximize potential of those around them. They're not the QB you get in any darft, though. My point is that if we are holding TLaw to the standard of #1 pick, maybe we should be looking at the other #1 picks to say whether he's comparable.

I certainly would love TLaw to be in the same conversation as Joey B, Mahomes or even Allen, but so would 25 or so other fanbases, too. If that's the standard, you're not ever going to be satisfied.

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