(06-07-2020, 02:28 PM)jaguarmvp Wrote: Is Caldwell that bad? Look at the record as him as GM. The one successful season he wasn't even the man in 2017 it was Coughlin. Caldwell sucks, decent scout but not a good GM at all.
(06-09-2020, 09:43 AM)D-Money Wrote: (06-07-2020, 02:28 PM)jaguarmvp Wrote: Is Caldwell that bad? Look at the record as him as GM. The one successful season he wasn't even the man in 2017 it was Coughlin. Caldwell sucks, decent scout but not a good GM at all.
Summed up perfectly. Lets sticky this post to the front page so everyone gets. Everyone making excuses for a man that overall has not got it done. We should't care what could or or should of happened we have sucked under him so he is a bad GM period. Making it way to complicated.
Except that one good season was with a roster he (Caldwell) built.
Coughlin had just showed up. Added Fournette and Robinson to the offense via draft (Coughlin guys that almost no one on this board likes) And added Campbell, Bouye, and Church via free agency. The defensive additions were on point sure, but also gave us a bit of a cap hindrance that we hit this season.
That season was good with a team that Caldwell mostly built without Coughlin. Linder, Parnell, Cann, and Omameh were 4 OL guys brought in before Coughlin. Bortles was the QB, and love him or hate him it was clearly his best season.
Pro bowlers from that team that Coughlin had nothing to do with: Ramsey, Telvin Smith, Malik, and Yannick.
A bunch of other guys on that team that Coughlin had nothing to do with: Poz, Jack, Fowler Jr, pretty much all of the WRs & TEs.
I mean, you guys can keep arguing it over and over again, Caldwell had a hand in the successes and failures of this team since he's showed up. He's had good draft selections and bad ones. Same with free agency.
But to discredit 2017 and say that was Coughlin isn't just disingenious it's flat out wrong.
But Coughlin's hand in over spending for free agents (which isn't something new) and his alienating players (also, not new) is pretty much the #1 reason our roster is in its current state as opposed to building upon what good had been built by 2017.
Every decision, draft selection, free agent signing, and contract extension since Coughlin's arrival ran though him. So Bortles' extension, Lee's extension, paying Jack before Ramsey and Yannick, Taven Bryan over Jackson, drafting Fournette over CMC, etc etc. That's on Coughlin, not Caldwell.
I don't hold Caldwell to some high regard though. We should have moved on probably twice already. I just call bull when I see it. And to pretend like Caldwell had nothing to do with 2017 and Coughlin was the reason for our success is laughable, otherwise, we would have continued to be successful beyond that one year.
