Quote:In the examples you gave, the Jaguars picked those guys where the media and other teams thought they should be picked.

Fewer people defend Derrick Harvey and Brian DeMarco because they were simply never good, that's not controversial.

Blackmon did very well on the field, and Reggie Williams and Matt Jones were decent contributors for a little while, legal/substance abuse problems ended their careers.

So fewer people defend those guys because of their off the field issues.

I get not being willing to defend a guy with a litany of off field issues like Soward.  But he had no more control over his draft position than Alualu.  Besides, just because the media didn't expect Alualu to be a top ten pick doesn't absolve him from the responsibility of producing like one. 

 

But the most important thing to me is the phrase I have placed in bold.

 

How does the phrase in bold not apply to Alualu?

 

Is he a nice/decent/wholesome guy?  By every account I've heard, the answer is an overwhelming yes.

 

But what did he do for us?  He's given us snaps, but no game changing/momentum changing plays during his time here.  No stretches where he approached dominance.  Not even a game where we looked at him and could even list him as a matchup advantage or someone opposing offenses had to account for. 

 

He's this generation's Renaldo Wynn.

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