I'm glad Khan is an engineer and observes patterns that work, and ones that typically fail. He is probably thinking:

1. This team was has been close in all of its games (except NE). It's playing competitive ball.
   
2. Most of our playmakers are still raw (1st or 2nd year) and will continue to grow. Mistakes are to be expected.
   
3. Blake Bortles has tremendous potential - he's a huge piece of the puzzle and it looks like he's the real thing.
   
4. Many of our best players are currently sidelined (like last year's Pro Bowl DT, and this year's 1st round draft pick) - leaving second string, non-starting material to have to step up and try their best. Mistakes are to be expected, the level is excepted to be lower in certain positions.
   
5. The jags are in better shape than their record, and there will be many fans who think we should take the heads off of the head coach.
   
6. Rebuilding a team that was essentially an incomplete, minor-league franchise when his new GM took the reigns will take quite some time. 3 years if the QB starts to click very early, more than that if there are hang-ups or injuries.
   

 

Regardless of how we feel as fans, my money is that Khan feels good about the current, global level of the team and the direction in which it's heading. He probably expects the major payoff to be not even next year, but the year after and beyond.

 

Oh, who am I kidding??? This is the Jaguars MB!

 

Fire Del Rio! Put Jerrard In!

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