When you have star players with character issues, it is always rolling the bones and hoping for the best. Sometimes you get Randy Moss, Cam Newton, or Janoris Jenkins. Other times you get RJ Soward, Justin Blackmon, Lawrence Phillips, or Johnny Manziel. Hindsight is always 20/20 but I am of the opinion we should judge coaches/gms based on the rosters they did make instead of the imaginary what if rosters they didn't.

 

1999 Jaguars were 14-2 and the #1 seed in the AFC under Coughlin. They beat Dan Marino's Dolphins 62-7 (I was there!). I would say that Coughlin's roster was great. He also was good at evaluating veteran free agents. He missed on Nickerson and Paup, but Carnell Lake, Clyde Simmons, Leon Searcy, Kyle Brady, Natron Means... he was pretty good at telling who still had something left in the tank. 

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