Quote:I'm with this line of thinking the OP proposed. People just don't get it. I'm not sure if it is due to the Madden or they just don't have a lot of football knowledge to pull from? People have no concept of how bad a roster has and how it gets to the shape its in. In contrast people don't have a concept of how good a roster is and how it gets to that point either. I don't blame people for being upset, they are just fans who get tired of having people laugh when they say they are jaguars fans. Trust me I know.

 

All I can say is that there is a process. We are 1.7 years into rebuilding a roster from player 1 to 53 right now. We are staring from scratch. And what I mean by scratch is this:

 

When Del Rio can to the jags in 2003 he had Henderson, Stroud, Meester, Taylor and Smith to start with. Some type of building blocks to help until he built his team and brought in his guys. 

 

Caldwell and Bradley came to a team with..... Nothing.

 

It is very hard to start from nothing. I cannot think of any other team who started were we did other than the raiders. It is what it is. Gus signed a 4 year contract and Bradley signed a 5 year. I say let it play out and if they suck then we start over again. But it is impossible to start from nothing and build a winner in 1.7 years sorry. 

 

The OP is correct. Coughlin acquired talent that helped Del Rio and they added a few extra pieces to it. Gene added nothing for the next guy. As a result he used up the previous guys talent and placed nothing back in the foundation. Enter Gus and Bradley. 

 

They may not be the guys but they are the one's here now that I believe will at least place down a foundation. Whether they stay to build the full winner remains to be seen but somebody has to lay down the foundation again to build from.  

 

I look back at the 2008 draft. Yes the previous drafts sucked but that one hurt the most. We had 11 picks and walked away with 5 guys. Of those 5 guys, that draft was really only about 2. Those to flamed out. We had an opportunity to rebuild the lines That would currently still be in use now and did not. They did not look for the future in that draft. They focused on the present and paid for it dearly that year and every one since then. 

 

Let that be a lesson we all can learn from. Constantly taking care of tomorrow will always take care of today.