Quote: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.

 

 

3 of the 4 teams we played are division winning level of good. Any one of them could be in the SB this season. 

 

People ignore this. 

 

If the Jags get smoked by the Rams on Sunday, then I'll start buying into this worst of all time possibility....until then, I still do not agree. 

 

As for your scenarios....I think they either should have dealt Monroe at the draft, or at least shopped him longer than they did here.....theres 4 weeks until the deadline....there was time to try and find a better offer. 

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