Quote:That's what I would have thought until now.  But the whole franchise is off.  The whole team is off.  They are breaking basic league parity somehow.  The NFL does change gradually, sometimes in ways that probably aren't obvious.  For instance, the formula of how to win a Super Bowl changes depending on who won it last. And teams are built to ultimately compete for a Super Bowl.  But there is even obvious change, such as the return game and extra points.   The point is it doesn't go from 1969 to 2019 overnight.  Change is happening all the time, trends are changing all the time, gimmicks and fads come and go depending on how effective they are on a weekly basis.  I'm not saying for sure this explains anything, but other more direct explanations also don't seem to fully explain what has has been happening to the Jaguars the past decade.  The Jaguars just always seem to be out of tune with the rest of the NFL.

 

"the formula of how to win a Super Bowl changes depending on who won it last." 

 

That's kind of circular reasoning, isn't it?   Team A wins the Super Bowl, so that's the way to win a Super Bowl, but the next year, Team B wins a different way, so that's the new way to win a Super Bowl.   But if Team B re-sets "the way to win a Super Bowl" then the way team A won wasn't necessarily the way to win, was it?   Team B didn't have to play like Team A, did they?  

 

If all you have to do to re-set the standard of how to win is **to win**, then there is no standard.   You didn't have to copy the previous team, did you? 

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