Quote:I understand your point and what you trying to prove. I just feel that,that excuse kind of played out already last year. When we should have beat the Steelers,Ravens,Eagles,Titans,Bengals, and Houston last year! All these games jags had lead and or tied in the games. The "close games" as you would call it!If we won these games jags would be 9-7 So all that close game theory is out the window in my opinion! Gus and the staff got that pass last season! The jags have to win now.

 

Valid points on both sides of this issue. This ^ one included.  

 

I recall there were at least 4 games last season that the Jags would have won easily with even an average offensive performance, but it didn't happen. 

If the defense maintains it's trajectory from last season and the offense improves only by a small margin  --  it's quite easy for me to see this team winning more games.  And it's time for that to happen. 

 

On the flip side -- of course when evaluating a purge/rebuild the competitive losses have to be considered when looking back on the record.

 But in year three of the process -  converting (at least half of) those close losses into wins should be the priority and expectation.  Just my opinion. 

 

Picking a number of requisite wins is still silly to me because we have no idea who our competition truly is at this stage. There's a very likely possibility that at least four teams on that schedule will be very different for the better or worse come October.  It happens every year.  Injuries, coaching changes, big contracts, players performance falling off a cliff  -- you never know which team might catch this bug. Others may be propelled into the playoffs by the performance of rising-star youth that no one predicted.  Bound to be a couple of those teams too. 

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