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Was the tank plan in effect before the start of the season?

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10-23-2013, 04:12 PM

Quote:Actually this is easy to answer.

 

Gene Smith gave a lot of average to below average players huge paydays - Poz, Mincey, Lewis, Henne, Laurent Robinson,  etc.  Caldwell comes in and sees the completely talentless roster and realizes the first thing to do is start clearing the books of the dead money and allow the injury-prone, underperforming players like Cox/Knighton/Smith leave in FA and only sign a few young players to 1 year deals. 

 

If you think this is a one year turnaround and that if we draft a franchise QB next year that we're going to be in the same position as the Colts when they drafted Luck, you're sadly mistaken.  This entire roster is being overhauled and you'll see more players cut.  Henne, Gabbert, MJD, Lewis, Meester, Mincey etc. are all going to be gone.  Huge dead money hits on the salary cap so we aren't just going to spend a fortune next year either.

 

This will be a multi-year rebuild through the draft.  They'll likely extend a few players like Marks and Blackmon, pick up a few cheap free agents, but we're not going to go from being an 0-16 team to a playoff contender in 2014.  A more realistic expectation is 4-12 to 6-10.

 

It's about doing it right this time...
 

Is this 'doing it right'? So far it follows the Gene Smith model. When Gene Smith first took over, he cut a lot of overpriced players, and didn't sign any notible free agents his first year, just like Caldwell has done so far. You're assuming that Caldwell is different because he won't be giving out huge paydays to below average players down the road. But we don't know that.


 

Gutting the roster is easy. Getting good replacements is hard. Caldwell has only done part 1. While the draft picks may eventually pan out, so far they are still works in progress. To put this into context, Eben Britton had more positive evaluations by this point in 2009 than any of our current crop of rookies. Other than Will Blackmon and Marks, I see no replacements who are even close to what I'd call good, and they are just guys.


 

I still ask the question, did Caldwell have to gut the roster to such an extent that the Jags are now reasonably being called The Worst Team in NFL History?




                                                                          

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Was the tank plan in effect before the start of the season? - by MalabarJag - 10-23-2013, 04:12 PM



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