Perhaps it's because it's in the midst of the dead zone.

 

Perhaps it's because I'm simply not as active on the board as I once was and maybe not reading as many threads as before.  Maybe I'm not the rabble rouser I once was.

 

But something seems different here.

 

Here we are, a month removed from the draft, and a month and a half away from training camp, and the board seems completely devoid of any major controversy.

 

Over the years, there have been major debates that have dominated Jag Nation that tended to dominate board discussion-even through the dead zone.

 

BL vs. DG.

 

Did Gene Smith reach on Alualu and could he have traded down? 

 

BAP vs. Need.

 

Tebow or not Tebow.

 

MJDs holdout, incident at the Conch House.

 

If nothing else, TMD's skeptical takes would be enough to rankle the board masses engage in skirmishes.

 

But when I look around the board now...nothing.  The boards two most notorious "bad guys" (for want of better phrasing-not an indictment on them as people), TMD and Krayz, have wholeheartedly applauded this draft class and this offseason as a whole.  I've seen more people on this board agree with TMD in the last month than I have over the course of several years combined.

 

To me, it seems the only thing close to a board controversy is what to do with Blackmon.  Maybe whether Bortles should start sooner rather than later.  But compared to those other subjects, these barely even register. 

 

Did Bradley and Caldwell achieve the impossible and bring unity to the fan base with this draft?

 

Am I imagining this lack of dissonance?

 

Is the absence of a major controversy for board fodder a good or bad thing? 

 

Will training camp and the preseason see controversies develop?

 

 

 

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