Quote:He was bad at managing the cap, but overall he was pretty darn good at selecting players. I assume Idzik will be sticking around to manage the cap and obviously Dave is still around. Tom would essentially be here to have input on all facets of the team.

 

People forget,

 

Coughlin wanted to draft Lawrence Phillips before Wayne Weaver told him not to. 

 

He wanted to trade 2 first round picks for the 5th pick in the draft, because he wanted to draft Curtis Enis.  If Chicago had taken that trade, we wouldn't have had Fred Taylor and Donovan Darius.  

 

He drafted Harry Deligianis in the fourth round without knowing anything about him, because there was a run on players at that position and he panicked.   Deligianis was a disaster and got cut in his first season.  

 

He also drafted RJ Soward with a first round pick.     Remember him?   He had such a bad substance abuse problem, TC had to send a limo every day to pick him up and deliver him at practice.   

 

We drafted Ryan Christopherson as a RB, and the very next pick, the Broncos drafted Terrell Davis!

 

And last but not least, don't forget, when the Jaguars were born, and TC was coach and GM, the NFL was giving expansion teams two picks per round in the draft.   That made it pretty easy to draft a team. 

 

Coughlin is a great coach, but he's not a great GM.   That's why the Giants didn't want him as GM.

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