Quote:No offense, but this idea that the talent on the defense is so terrible is kinda dumb...


You guys are acting as though the jaguars drafted and signed players from the school of the deaf, dumb, and blind.


In fact, the team has drafted players just like every other team. It's not like we were given 'd' or 'f' grades for the 2013, 2014, and 2015 drafts. And the guys we got in free agency, while not all pros were for the most part ok players at the least.


But from how some of you guys talk, out defensive players were acquired from the coma ward of Our Lady of the Worthless Miracle Hospital.


What are we? The Jacksonville Parapalygics?

I get your drift, and it probably was a bit excessive of me to describe the talent on our defense as abysmal. Obviously, these guys must have talent or they wouldn't be playing in the NFL. Allow me to retract what I said and put it another way; our defense, in spite of what ever degree of inherent talent the individuals on it posses, stinks worse than yesterdays dirty diapers. There are individuals on our defense who, although they play in the NFL, perform at a very low caliber compared to other players on other teams in the same position. Given that the type of defense scheme used here since Gus Bradley arrived (the so called 'soft zone' defense, or sometimes the 'Seattle' defense) and the low caliber quality of defense coordinator we had, it isn't unfair to say that we lack adequate defensive talent to successfully run that type defense.

 

It has been said that a chain is only as strong as its' weakest link... our defense has demonstrated that it has more than a few weak links. This being said, it really shouldn't surprise any of us that this is the case. Dave has devoted the lions share of recent drafts to building up the offense; and our offense (while still a work in progress) is much better than it was. It should be understood though that it was bought as the price of putting the defense in somewhat of a secondary priority when it came to drafting and f/a, notwithstanding the addition of Dante Fowler (whom has yet to take the field).

 

So in conclusion, maybe I was a little harsh to say our defensive talent is abysmal... but I wasn't far from wrong either given what we saw this past season.

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