(09-08-2019, 03:37 PM)old_man Wrote: Disagree....Roster has talent.  I will leave it there.

Not enough.  Our secondary is suspect.  Our LBs are suspect.  Our OL is suspect.  And it hasn't been fixed yet.  AND we need better coaching, especially in terms of discipline and situational football.

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(09-08-2019, 04:57 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(09-08-2019, 04:35 PM)EricC85 Wrote: These same problems predate Coughlin the only connection is Caldwell. 

Caldwell broke the roster down to expansion status and spent the last 6 years building a team with no depth, no character, and staffed with a gutless leader running cupcake camps.

Coughlin was put in charge in January 2017. He was the one who made Marrone the permanent head coach after the 2016 season. If you don't like Marrone, blame TC. And the mistake was compounded by also keeping Hackett and Wash.

Caldwell did well drafting Ramsey and Jack (and Ngakoue) in 2016, before TC. Ramsey and Jack were not a problem originally, that developed over time (and coaching). The 2014 draft was also very good with the exception of Bortles. Meanwhile, the draft of Fournette had TC's fingerprints all over it.

I was very critical of Caldwell originally, and I still think he needs to learn how to trade down, but as I watch the drafted players decline in ability over time I have to think that the real problem is failure to develop the picks. Caldwell is not the greatest GM, but he's not the worst either. He's still orders of magnitude better than Gene Smith.

And yet in our own division, Chris Ballard was hired 3 years ago and has rebuilt the Colts.  If the suckage continues this year, it's time to clean house from top to bottom.

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