(12-27-2021, 05:59 PM)Newton Wrote: While he has gone through a rough patch, the way so many posters seem to be aggressively attacking the guy does not make sense to me. Clearly you are fans, or you would not be on this message board at this point in a miserable season, but why try to tear down our best prospect in years just because he has had a difficult rookie campaign during a dumpster fire overall situation? What is there possibly to be gained from that?

I think for two reasons.

1. He was being touted as the next or latest and greatest QB prospect since Andrew Luck.

2. He's struggling at a historical level, both, franchise wise and position wise during an era geared towards making the position and passing game historically favorable.

Look, for me? There's plenty of blame to go around. I have been in Jacksonville my whole life. All 33 years of it. I remember the late 90s with Brunell and the whole Del Rio era.

I remember the press conference when Coughlin was fired and my Dad was on his lunch break and word for word, he looked at me and said "Son, Weaver will regret this day".

I never got caught up on the 4500, 40 TD QBs around the NFL because I grew up on Taylor, Jones-Drew, etc. This city always prided itself on being run first and hard nosed on offense and being stout against the run on defense. You would get some splash plays here and there on offense through the air.

This team has been dying for history to repeat itself since it died in 1999/2000. People want that 4 year run again with 2 trips to the title game and an actual SB win this time around.

I get it. I get it from both sides of the fence. Expectations were set high and a lot of folks can't deal with seeing this [BLEEP] unfolding anymore. I am in the middle.

I am realistic. Lawrence is historically bad because:

A. He wasn't ready
B. Meyer wasn't ready
C. Baalke wasn't ready

This team had a full year to prepare for this. Meyer knew what he wanted all along. He botched it. Baalke as well. They did little in free agency. This draft was lack luster. Campbell is panning out but the pick on Etienne felt desparate and the pick on Little seemed wasteful. Cisco is just now playing.

Just a lot of botched opportunities to put it mildly. Coaching wise though they should have incorporated more of what Lawrence did at Clemson. This offense never had an identity established and that's something you're supposed to figure out by the season opener.

Again, take the Bengals, Dolphins and Falcons games. That was your identity. That was what should have been your offensive philosophy and plan of attack since the opener in Houston.



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