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Bill Simmons Lowers The Boom On Bradley, Gabbert, Tony Khan And The Entire Jaguar Organization.

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10-04-2013, 08:31 PM

Quote:Ok, so I might have been off on the exact -years- for some of those teams, but you missed the larger point - those teams had a pretty long success drought too. 

 

I also disagree with Monroe being our best player. I don't even think he was our best OLT. Now, I do agree that I was disappointed in the return on the trade & that the whole situation was mismanaged. Monroe probably should have instead been shopped at the draft weekend. .

 

Blackmon is IMO - clearly the best player we have. 
 

A long drought is one thing. Being THIS BAD is a completely worse level of sucking.


 

Blackmon may be our best player. Shorts and Joeckel are also possible. But Blackmon could just as easily be gone in a year or two due to off-field problems. Shorts has regressed, possibly because he can only reliably catch a soft Henne pass, and not Gabbert's harder throws. Joeckel is expected to be good because of his draft position and pre-draft hype, but so far he has sucked. Who knows? Monroe could very well have been the Jags best player. He outplayed the other three through the first four games, not that that was hard to do.


 

The return on the trade was pathetic. But there is a larger factor, this was a direct result of drafting Joeckel, so the mistake goes back to the draft.


 

1) Monroe at LT. Mingo (say) at DE.


2) Joeckel at LT. Late 4th and 5th round picks in 2014.


 

Even if Joeckel turns out to be better than Monroe, I think the Jags would be better off with option 1. And in either case Caldwell further blew it by not signing a RT like Andre Smith during free agency.




                                                                          

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