Quote:The same fool's gold all over again. The gold standard for measuring offensive line success is yards rushing.

 

Start living up to your contract.

 

Our only hope is if Caldwell will swear off drafting for what appears to be a need and just stick to honest league-wide consensus in grading followed up by drafting the absolutely best football players available regardless of what position they play.

 

If we didn't already have Luke Joeckel on the roster there's no way on earth we could have unloaded an asset like Eugene Monroe for multiple draft picks before he quit town. 

 

Kentucky OG Larry Warford is way better at his job than Gratz is at his. In fact, Warford's draft grade was twenty points higher than Gratz. That made drafting Gratz (62.1 grade) over Warford (88.6 grade) a pretty severe reach. Warford is simply a better football player than Gratz is, but we didn't get him.

 

  By no means am I questioning the Jaguars draft decision in Round 3 or any of their draft decisions this year.     It's still relatively early in the process in seeing how things ultimately turn out.

 

  A key advantage the Lions had regarding the decision making process involving Larry Warford is the Lions coaching staff had the opportunity to coach him at the Senior Bowl.     The same with DE Ziggy Ansah,   who became the Lions 1st Round pick.      Many of the concerns about both players were erased in that one week in Mobile, AL.

 

   It gets back to what I expressed on the College Football Forum earlier this season.   If the Jaguars Coaching staff has the opportunity to coach one of the squads in the 2014 Senior Bowl,  it could make a major difference with how the 2014 Draft turns out for the Jaguars.   In some cases,   you find out which players NOT to draft or at the very least lower their draft grades substantially.

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