(03-12-2019, 02:33 PM)SeldomRite Wrote:

(03-12-2019, 02:14 PM)JagFanFirst Wrote: I simply don't understand the grumbling with Foles. For years, people have been saying we need to dump Bortles, and get someone else. Now we do, and many of those complainers aren't satisfied.

Foles' salary is in the middle of the league. He's a quarterback that (many say) ranks in the middle of the league. I actually dispute that. I think Nick is a a high top ten QB == if he has the right players around him. So for the Jags, they need to use as many as their picks as they can to draft weapons and build the OL. It's easier to do that now that the first pick won't be going to draft a QB.  We can draft that TE from Iowa. Or a great OT.  We can get a RB with one of those third round picks, and with the second and third, we can draft WRs and TEs.  Our OL really was actually pretty decent when they were healthy.

My problem with the Foles signing is tying up franchise QB money in the latest Matt Flynn.

People wanted to get rid of Bortles for the next Patrick Mahomes, not a slightly less limited version of Bortles that can't run. If this move means the Jaguars pass on yet another franchise QB then it was a horrible move. The team needs to find management that can identify franchise quarterbacks in the draft.

Matt Flynn lol wow

Matt Flynn won't accomplish what Foles has in 100 lifetimes. 

Foles is no superstar but he's a perfectly good, solid QB who has demonstrated he can take a team to the promised land. Mahomes' don't hit the FA market ever and whether anyone want to admit it or not this team is a contender in the AFC still assuming league average or above health

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