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Good grief. This is not Gene's roster numbskull. Gus and Dave turned this roster over by more than 50% and kept the players they wanted to keep. This is THEIR roster since they assembled it. There is not a single player on this roster they were forced to keep. Unbelievable.


Regards..................the Chiefjag

 

So why did Gene Smith get the benefit of the doubt when you're not doing the same with Dave Caldwell?  Because once upon a time Tom Coughlin endorsed Gene Smith?  Which is meaningless in any case because even if Gene Smith was a good scout, that doesn't mean he'd make a good General Manager.  

 

Gene Smith took this team over in much better shape than he left it.  He had a Quarterback 3x more talented than what we have now (which isn't saying a whole lot), a much younger Maurice Jones-Drew.  And his drafting put us in this position.

 

What did you think Caldwell was going to do?  Come in, pluck some players off the magic tree?  He had to pick up Free Agents and had 7 draft picks to work with.   Caldwell was practically forced to keep a few players, because of contract issues along with the availability of free agents.  There were no Quarterbacks available for him to take.  None of them were worth it when it came time for the Jaguars to pick in the draft.  And Free Agency offered little to nothing.

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