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archer56 · 12-28-2014, 10:16 PM

My observations (more like false hopes) for this offseason are as follows

1. Fixing the offensive line should be a priority. Yes there a lot of excuses and it seems like we can never get any continuity when it comes to the line, which makes everything worse. Bawanko and Linder have been the strongest part of the line, despite people hating on bawanko, I like the fact that out of the five lineman he's the 2nd best, despite being a 6th round draft pick. It shows his potential ceiling if he bulks up over the offeseason which I'm sure he will. I'm not sure how many of you went and watched the limited game film he had when we drafted him, but his game against Donald Penn, the probably defensive rookie of the year, and a pro bowler in his first year if I remember correctly, got man handled by bawanko. Improve the left side of the line around him will help both him and Linder as well.

1.1 LUKE JOEKEL MUST FIGURE HIS [BAD WORD REMOVED] OUT. This is his no excuses offseason. If he comes into next year playing just as bad then we do have a major problem....

2.0 Blake Bortles will get a full offseason as the starter to work on "jelling" as the O-man likes to say, with the entire offense and more time to hopefully grow more confident in what we're all praying is an improved pocket. Furthermore, I think with an entire offseason, if Fisch is still around he'll be forced to give Bortles much more control in the game. Bortles has been at his best this year when he is driving the offense, as demonstrated in time constrained 2 minute drives. Hopefully they see this in the game film and realize this is the strength of the offense and implement and offensive plan based around this for next year.

3.0 Secondary Development. While a lot of you have crossed off cyprien, I think with some more talent around him that he can trust he'll be able to turn into that big hard hitting Saftey that we all know he is capable. I think we all realize that if we had better free Saftey play cyprien would probably be more instinctive. Right now he's obviously thinking more than playing because he has to compensate for Evans.

4.0 Figure out something at running back. Not gunna lie, I love the idea of Gerhart, but we don't have the line to support Gerhart. If we had a line like Seattle or MN with road graders that we would just need a guy to beat the one on one, Gerhart would win that almost every time, and he's showed this. Unfortunately we don't have that line, so his type of running style isn't effective.

5.0 Free Justin Blackmon, 'nough said. Also If I have to see shorts drop one more catchable ball next year I'm going to have a nervous breakdown. We should have won this game, shorts was there, he just blatantly missed the ball as it sailed right past his hands. That goes for Lewis as well. Draft another pass catching tight end, or trade for one if we have to, and use two tight end sets for the goal line. take a Hernandez gronkowski approach. New England has been able to do that with Tim wright, why can't we?

6.0 Pass rush I suppose. I like the direction we're going with the defensive line, and I think with upgrades to the linebacking core and an outside passrusher that can learn from clemons, or better yet start day one, will make us set drastically better.

7.0 Bring in more wide receiver coaches or something. We all know that every time we watch a game our wide receivers suck against the press and have trouble getting open at all. While Sullivan is a great route teaching coach, we need another coach to teach them how to get open when it requires more than just a good route. Our offensive line doesn't have the time for the route tree to develop at the moment....