(05-06-2021, 02:54 PM)RicoTx Wrote:

(05-06-2021, 02:30 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: Hardly. A guess is just something pulled out of thin air. This is a hypothesis based on facts. While it's definitely not 100%, if you take the facts into account, it's a likelihood that his role will be that of a 3rd down RB. With that said, the team has made many errors in my lifetime which went totally against conventional wisdom, so I guess anything is possible.

How much you want to bet you are waaaaaaay wrong here?  Pretty faulty 'hypothesis' in my opinion.  But I guess we'll see.  That's why...you know...I actually wait until they play games.  Or maybe even one game.

So now it's bad to express opinions (or shall we call them guesses?) on a message board? You are only guessing as well, nothing wrong with that.

Time to channel our inner Joe Friday and stick to just the facts, eh?

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(05-06-2021, 03:29 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(05-06-2021, 01:49 PM)Mikey Wrote: @as long as we can schedule Wake, FSU, Syrupcubes, and the like, the Jags should be fine.@

not necessarily saying either is not talented, but pump the brakes on those expectations.

What's the expectations?  Do tell

Thinking that TLaw and Etienne are gonna post anything near 173 TD in 3 seasons maybe? The tweet was RIGHT there in the quoted post.

Do we really need a number to say either are damn good at what they do? No. If they aren't playing like gangbusters right outta the gate, you wanna bet there won't be eleventy billion "because jaguars" posts from the resident Eeyores around here?

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(05-06-2021, 06:07 PM)jaguarmvp Wrote:

(05-06-2021, 10:04 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: People don't have a problem with Etienne, it's how high he was drafted. We had an every down RB in Robinson who was/is good. We needed a 3rd down, complimentary RB. Guys like Michael Carter, Kenneth Gainwell and Chuba Hubbard could have been effective in this role and would've been chosen much later in the draft, thus allowing us to fill a real need with an elite player. Etienne is a very good RB. He was my #2 rated runner, but for the role he was gonna fill in this offense, I don't see much difference what he brings to the table and what one of the other guys I mentioned would've brought. On the other hand, we could've gotten a better player at another position that could've made a much bigger impact. This choice is in no way an indictment of Etienne, I am pretty sure everyone likes him as a player. It just that the position could've been addressed much later and just as effectively with someone else.

If you love a player you get him.  There is no guarantee ETN would of fallen out of the first round.  Do not forget that the team Drafted MJD when we still had Fred Taylor?

An interview about Travis Etienne:   https://www.jaguars.com/news/coaches-cor...is-etienne

Freddy was on the downward slope of his career, though. apples and octopi.

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