Quote:This team legitimately has hope for the first time in several years, it's a matter of crossing the bridge to the Bortles era. But no one is patient enough for that it seems. Even when you were told this is what it would be like.

What we were told was that this would be a competitive team, regardless of who the QB was. Bortles, Henne, it would've made no difference out there today. Both guys would have been mincemeat behind that offensive line, and the idiotic coaching decisions wouldn't have helped their causes either. This team is no closer to the playoffs than it was in 2012, or 2011, or 2010, even 2009, when this whole "rebuilding, no srsly, for realsies this time" project started again.

 

I can live with a competitive 4-12 team. I can't live with a team promising consistency, progress and competitiveness year after year coming out like a bunch of guppies in a shark tank again. I'm over it. 20 years of being a Jaguars fan and I am finally over it. Not a knee-jerk, not a drunken rageface, just me admitting that if this is the best the Jaguars can do, I'd rather embrace a team that shows up on Sunday. They don't have to win every game, but it'd be nice if they were in a few of them.

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