Quote:How can you even think like this? Is it really this hard to understand? How in the world could Caldwell made this roster more competitive without sacrificing the future? Even then, if we did sign some overpriced F/A's, we'd only be able to squeeze out 3-4 wins anyway.

 

This is Gene Smith's fault. Not Caldwell. Not Bradley. Get it through your head. This isn't rocket science.

^^^ Totally agree!

 

Quote:So your saying Caldwell holds no fault in assembling this roster this year? Either Caldwell or Gus take some blame in this season, unless you accept the notion this level of suck is on purpose.

Totally disagree!! I said this before and I'll say it again, what the heck did you want Caldwell and Bradley to do? Magically pull top star talent out of the air and place them on our roster? If we got rid of all the scrubs currently on the roster or on the roster at the beginning, we'd have like 6 total players. Where you gonna get the other 47??? And you can't just spend and overspend in FA; that doesn't fix the problem (i.e our FA spending probably the last 5-6 years). The only way to get more talent to replace the current non-talent, is through the draft and possibly a few FA signings, if they are available. Remember, there may be a lot of other teams that want to sign that FA. And who would want to come to play in Jacksonville honestly? With all the media hashing and no national coverage or respect, signing FA is very hard for us (i.e why we overspend a lot of the time). Everyone needs to come to the fact that this year is going to suck big time, but this rebuild is actually a rebuild. Not something fashioned up to look like a rebuild to hide the fact that the GM/owner/HC doesn't know what they are doing (i.e Shack, Geney poo, Weaverlicious, etc). This will take 3 years in my eyes for us to get back being truly competitive with the best of teams, consistently. Be patient people!!

 

Go Jags!

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