Pretty stunning. Thanks Shack and Gene.

 

And I doubt Alualu is in any type of long term plans for Caldwell/Bradley.

 

Of course the good news being the players were so awful that Caldwell now has over 50 million in cap room to spend. So we have that going for us.

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That IS stunning.

 

It also makes you think, do we really not more than 1 single freakin player that was worth keeping from those eras?

 

Or is this current regime just more willing to cut guys Smith drafted?

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This is after Gene Smith dedicated to building from the trenches.

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Worst to 1st.  Curse Reversed!

I must be the only one here than that thinks that Alualu is a good player. 

 

Not a great one, but a good run-stopper.

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I must be the only one here than that thinks that Alualu is a good player. 

 

Not a great one, but a good run-stopper.

He's an average starter. He gets criticism for absolutely no reason here.

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I think Bridgewater at 3 is better value than Mack at 3, yes.

 

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He's an average starter. He's get criticism for absolutely no reason here.

Absolutely no reason? Really?


Name two momentum changing/game changing plays he's made as a Jaguar.

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Worst to 1st.  Curse Reversed!

If the man was a second round pick paired with a disruptive force he would seem an appropriate choice.  I feel for the guy, Gene's reach has soured the fans.

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Birth of the Franchise - November 30, 1993
Death of the Franchise - November 29, 2011

Fans deserve better. Thanks for all the good times too many are in the past.

Pretty stunning. Thanks Shack and Gene.

 

And I doubt Alualu is in any type of long term plans for Caldwell/Bradley.

 

Of course the good news being the players were so awful that Caldwell now has over 50 million in cap room to spend. So we have that going for us.

Stunning Tyson Alualu remains but I guess he's doing okay as the Leo until they can find better...

 

Correction, Tyson is a 2 gap DE, 4/5 tech

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Absolutely no reason? Really?


Name two momentum changing/game changing plays he's made as a Jaguar.

Yes, really. He was drafted way too high by one of the worst GMs in NFL history. He was on other team's boards as late 1st rounder. The NFL laughed at us when we made that pick. If he were drafted where he was supposed to, he wouldn't get the blind hate he gets now.

 

He's an average starter. He shouldn't be cut, like many say. He actually did his job.

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I think Bridgewater at 3 is better value than Mack at 3, yes.

 

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Stunning Tyson Alualu remains but I guess he's doing okay as the Leo until they can find better...

Alualu doesn't play the LEO.

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I think Bridgewater at 3 is better value than Mack at 3, yes.

 

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He's an average starter. He gets criticism for absolutely no reason here.

 

"No reason"

 

He was a top 10 pick.  That's plenty of reason for criticism I think.  While he can't control where he was picked, that he was picked in the Top 10 has earned him more criticism than if he were picked in the 2nd round.  Of course we didn't have a 2nd rounder that year because Gene Smith thought it'd be a good idea to trade up in the 3rd round the year before!

 

Alualu isn't terrible.  But he's not good either.  Even in the 2nd, he'd be a disappointment. 

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I was wrong about Trent Baalke. 

There is nothing else that needs to be said about Shack or Gene that hasn't been covered.

I truly hope to look back this time in 2018 and remark what an excellent job Dave and Company have done.

 

You live and die by the draft.

 

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When they have no time,  they think about it!

When they go down hard, they think about it!

 

Just watch Peyton, Andrew, Caep even Mr. Bundchen.

IINM, there are only 5 players left from the '11 and '12 drafts and Rackley is on the bubble.

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Alualu doesn't play the LEO.

 

Though he had just 1.5 sacks, Alualu had a solid season as a run-stuffer (42 tackles). His position in Gus Bradley’s defense isn’t designed to produce a lot of sacks. That falls to what the Jaguars call a leo, which is a hybrid end/outside linebacker. That’s the spot that Babin and Branch manned.

http://espn.go.com/blog/jacksonville-jag...nsive-ends

 

I got confused I meant that he fits Gus scheme for DL at the moment.

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IINM, there are only 5 players left from the '11 and '12 drafts and Rackley is on the bubble.

 

Likely that next offseason there will be only one (potentially zero) players left from the 2011 draft. Gabbert, Rackley and Prosinski are on the bubble. Shorts III being the only potential keeper but he will be a free agent.

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"No reason"

 

He was a top 10 pick.  That's plenty of reason for criticism I think.  While he can't control where he was picked, that he was picked in the Top 10 has earned him more criticism than if he were picked in the 2nd round.  Of course we didn't have a 2nd rounder that year because Gene Smith thought it'd be a good idea to trade up in the 3rd round the year before!

 

Alualu isn't terrible.  But he's not good either.  Even in the 2nd, he'd be a disappointment. 

 

People who say Alualu doesn't deserve to be criticized as a player would be slamming him if he were a texan, colt, or titan.

 

One only needs to do the mental exercise enough to think about Terrance Knighton to understand just how bad of a pick Alualu was.

 

Terrence was a better player, he was drafted two rounds later, and he still wasn't good enough for this team's new management to consider him a priority in free agency.

 

Alualu is just a guy. If he had been picked in the middle or late rounds we'd like him for trying hard and he'd probably have been cut by now.

 

Since he was picked early he's a bust and completely worthy of the disdain fans feel for the decision to take him in the top 10.

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IINM, there are only 5 players left from the '11 and '12 drafts and Rackley is on the bubble.

 

Probably his last chance to show something, and it better be good for his sake.

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"You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud."

The title of this thread is exactly why we were 4-12.  Glad to see things seem to e brighter today then a few years ago.  

 

Tommy's quote "He was drafted way too high by one of the worst GMs in NFL history" is so true and hilarious to boot!  Well played

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I'd reckon Alualu is on a short leash too. We've been bad in the trenches for years.

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No pain, no gain.

SMH, This might be the most depressing thing I've read about the Jags and their drafting history ever. Alualu is the only guy left from ALL those drafts. There is just no excuse for that.

 

There's bad drafting, there's awful drafting, there's GOD awful drafting, there's "wth are you doing" drafting and then there's this..........The Jags 2007-2010 drafts.

 

They couldn't even accidently, blind squirrel style, draft just one great, or even one very good player in all those 31 draft picks???

 

The words to describe that level of draft incompetence are hard to find.

 

I know several posters on here who could have done better, given the chance to make all those draft picks.

 

One thing is for sure, they could have done no worse.

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