(08-28-2019, 08:48 AM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(08-27-2019, 09:36 PM)JagFan81 Wrote: I think you need to remember that the RB hype that early was from Elliott and Prescott with the Cowboys and how running the ball was back and teams were looking to build that model.

Fournette ticked the boxes for the list but injuries were peoples main concern. Cook looked fast but fragile and McCaffrey was 'too small'.

McCaffrey looks for real, Fournette and Cook are in prove it contract years. They aren't getting $10m a year at the moment.

And this right here is the main issue with the majority of front offices. They have no idea how to think ahead but instead, try to copy someone else. It's why the Pats are always at the forefront and so is Andy Reid.

"Oh look at the Cowboys! They won and they drafted RB early." Also not realizing that their OLine is probably top 2 in the league at the time. If the Jags had really started to think ahead, they would have drafted Mahomes or Watson at #4 and then snagged RB later (Hunt, Kamara Mixon)

I completely agree Cleatwood. You get the logic of it, its worked elsewhere but, I think it's a line in Moneyball, 'if we try to be the Yankees in here (building team) we will lose to the Yankees out there'

Coaches dont get long in modern football and sometimes they try and build a quick fix team but surely the franchise has a style or identity. 

But if you fill your roster with solid players, the x's and o's tend to sort themselves out.

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