Quote:I know the NFC East and AFC South were terrible, but they were won by 9-7 teams. Ten wins often are required to clinch a wild card spot.

 

You can also use simple math to see how close we were to winning five more games.

 

Even with arguably the softest schedule this past season in the NFL, and with a large amount of inexplicable 'lucky breaks' for the Jags due to other teams misfortunes... even with this, the best this team could do was only a weak 5-11 record. Yes, we will get some player upgrades this coming season (we hope)... but we will also have a substantially harder schedule this coming season too.

 

No. The tinhorns proved we were not even close by soundly whipping us. They themselves then went on to get soundly and easily beaten in the first playoff game. We have been and continue to be a bad team; I see us needing at least two more years of developing our defense from the dumpster fire it has been until it is at least respectable. As it is right now, our defense is a joke to any halfway decent team in the NFL and our offense, while getting better, isn't good enough most of the time to compensate for it.

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