Quote:So, to follow your logic, if I come into a windfall of cash, and I decide to " invest " it at the horse track ( read: high risk ), and I lose it all, it's not a big deal because If none of my horses pay off, so be it, the money was there to be bet.

Well, your analogy turns *really* convoluted, because it would also have to be a case where if you don't spend the money it gets thrown away, where all investments are high risk and where the safer the investment the more you have to invest (up to and including well beyond the expected return on that investment). In that case, sure, bet on a few horses.

Quote:My point wasn't that the Jags were foolish to pay up for these guys....I realize "overpaying is what free agency is all about". My point was that this is a pivotal point in the careers of our current management.........If a majority of these FA's and draft picks fail to live up to expectations, their careers in Jax will be short-lived.

I can't agree with you here. If just one or two of the free agent acquisitions made with cap money that had to be spent anyway work out to the extent that the team hopes, that's a brilliant result. It spreads the risk better than burning hundreds of millions on Suh, for example, and the expectation that more than one will work out as an improvement probably helps the team quite a lot.

Quote:The fans here have bought into the story that this is year 3 of the rebuilding process. If there is no sign of progress in 2015, I can't see how they would be permitted to say " o.k., that didn't work, so we're in year 1 of a new rebuilding process"

This makes no sense. Having a handful of high-risk, high-reward contracts that we can afford of which some don't pay off does not in any way set the team back to year one of rebuilding.

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