(03-14-2019, 06:00 PM)SamusAranX Wrote:

(03-14-2019, 03:31 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: Yes, they are. Many of us on this board, maybe even the majority of us were against the extension, because it didn't make sense to extend a guy who showed major consistency issues his entire career. Just because they release him now, when everyone in the world now agrees he's not the future of the team, doesn't make them any less clueless. I would say half of this board would've made better decisions regarding this issue and we wouldn't have been so close to the cap, like we are now.

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I expect them to either say nothing, dance around the issue or say they made a mistake. Saying they didn't regret it, makes them sound either disingenuous or stupid.

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By being dishonest, they apparently don't realize how clueless they sound.

Well, I didn’t like going back to find it but I did: 

You’re saying that half the board warned of this but you yourself said you were fine with the extension. Of course now that you have the benefit of hindsight you change your tune. I quote:


“At least it's only 2 years. That's not long term, so it shouldn't effect us from drafting a QB at all. I honestly didn't think he'd accept a short term deal. I was afraid it was gonna be something like a 5-6 year deal. I'm fine with this.”

Original post can be found here: 

https://www.duvalpride.com/showthread.php?tid=27128

Tell us again, please how you warned us. In fact, there were alot of people in that thread commenting that they approved and it was a good move. 

No, I wasn't. I hated it, but it was already done, so what could I do? Saying I'm fine with it being only 2 years is A LOT different than saying I approved of extending him period. I wouldn't have extended him at all, but I'll admit, it could have been worse. I really was expecting them to sign him to a longer term deal. I was relieved they didn't and that was expressed in this post. If you read my other posts from back then, (before the extension was made,) you'd see that I wanted him to play out the final year of his option and then make a decision.

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(03-14-2019, 07:53 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(03-14-2019, 07:51 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: I would gladly get fired and have people talk crap about me for months, if I was making the money Bortles was. It wouldn't bother me one bit. I'd laugh all the way to the bank.

Sure, but that doesn't mean that Caldwell and Coughlin are going to fire the guy one night and spend the next morning laying out the reasons they were wrong to have faith he'd be good enough to win with. 

There's no reason to lay out a litany of Blake's faults and shortcomings. Why should they? To appease you? 

Nah.

Then don't say anything. Dance around the question, be vague, but don't say you have no regrets for putting us so close to the cap. Their jobs depend upon them giving this team the best possible talent and keeping us under the cap. That extension was part of the reason we lost Jackson and Gipson. I'm not saying they should go out there and trash Bortles. I'm simply saying don't say you have no regrets.

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