Quote:the following players need to be gone:
Cyprien
Sergio Brown
Armbrister
Lewis
Gerhart
Beadles
Lee
Poz
Like it or not, Cyprien and Brown are the best safeties on this team. Acquiring players to push them in the offseason is a good call, but cutting them now would make our already shaky secondary flat-out awful.
Armbrister is a bit unfair to put on this list. He made the team based upon his special teams work and his potential for the future. No one expected him to be starting games at middle linebacker a few games into his career, particularly after his camp and preseason work focused on the outside. He looked out of his league starting because he was, but with some patience, he could still become a solid player in the rotation. I think the bigger problem with Armbrister is that the team methodically cut all the experienced depth around him, plunging him into a role as the top backup linebacker that he's not ready for yet.
No argument on Lewis. The man's a disaster and has been for years. Gerhart needs to go, but with D-Rob and Pierce injured, depth at running back is needed. I'd sooner keep Gerhart over Grant, tbqh, because at least Gerhart can take a hit. Beadles is needed with Linder out for the year, but I think the plan all along was that Cann would take his spot in 2016 and Beadles would go away.
I wouldn't give up on Lee yet. The only thing the man's done wrong is be injured. Can't make the club from the tub, I know, but he's got game-breaking ability that no other receiver on this team has. Remember, Jimmy Smith (a second-round pick) spent his first two years in the league almost constantly injured, then after Dallas and Philly gave up on him, he arrived in Jacksonville and blew the doors off the place. I'm not going to call Lee the next Jimmy, because receivers like Jimmy Smith are very few and far between, but I could see similar career trajectory once Lee gets healthy. If his injuries linger into next season, then it's worth parting ways. I still think that this team needs to focus on finding a true number one receiver in this draft. Hurns is a good player, but he's limited athletically. A-Rob isn't a burner. The Jaguars need someone who can blow the doors off of a defense. Hopefully Lee's the guy.
Cutting Poz...did you see what happened to our run defense without Poz out there on Sunday?! You could make a case that thanks to the defensive line's ineptitude, Telvin's struggles in coverage and the secondary's consistency problems, Poz is arguably having the best year of any Jaguars defender. When a starter goes down and an entire aspect of the defense collapses without him, that's saying something about his value.
