Quote:By year 2 for him (1999) he had and experienced and in their primes LT Tarik Glenn, WR Marvin Harrison, RB Edgerrin James, TEs Ken Dilger and Marcus Pollard.  Did Bortles have anything closely resembling that array of surrounding talent for him last year?

 

The more and more you inspect the current Jacksonville roster situation, the more convinced I am that almost no other team has seen this type of build before. Even the expansion teams were thrown a bone to help them up a bit (and no, I don't think Jacksonville deserved that kind of treatment nor do I hold it against the expansion teams when they were starting).

 

Granted, there are teams out there who have cleaned the cabinets and started over, but most every one that I can think of had at least one or two installed "star" players that they could lean on. Gus and Dave really had nothing to start with when they got here.

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