On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the most frustrated? I'm at a 10.

 

But this isn't just a "we lost to a bad team, darnit" frustrated. This is a culmination-frustration.

 

This is the 3rd year of a rebuild. We wanted to see a competitive team. We wanted to see improvement.

 

Has there been improvement? Obviously.

 

Is this a competitive team? If you consider sticking around a score with the worst of the worst teams in the NFL and losing pretty decisively to every actually decent team, then sure. I, personally, don't though.

 

There's been very little in the way of entire-team positives this year. A couple individual positives, obviously (Telvin, ARob, Hurns, Bortles, etc. etc.). This has been the easiest schedule a team may ever see, and the Jags are still managing to keep themselves in contention for a top 5 draft pick.

 

It's new and inventive ways to lose each week too. It's not like they have a bad run defense so every team just runs on them for 200 yards each week. I can understand that, as Vic used to say "help is not on the way." With this team though? One week a team will run all over the Jags and the next a team will pass all over it, then some weeks the offense falls apart and others it looks like a juggernaut until it gets into the redzone.

 

All of this leading to today; a loss to a Mike Murlarkey led Titans team who hasn't won a game at home in over a year. Especially the way they lost, with the absolutely awful defense.

 

Now, losing to Murlarkey has me fairly frustrated. All of this up to this point puts me probably around a 7 on the 1-10 scale, mainly because I hate Murlarkey. So what brings this up to a 10?

 

Everyone on the 5th Quarter is citing their "insider knowledge" of this franchise to say, pretty confidently, that Gus is back next year.

 

It's the definition of insanity. Watching this team and caring is smashing your head against a wall. I went into this season expecting the Jags to have a tough schedule causing them to look bad, so I didn't care all that much. I watched the first few weeks joking around about the team, because, the only way to truly enjoy the awfulness was to laugh, in my own opinion. But that turned out to not be the case. They've had a laughable schedule and they've still managed to look laughable. How am I supposed to justify sitting through a 4th year of this?

 

I feel like a 15 year old high school girl at this point; I can't even.

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