(12-14-2022, 11:11 AM)carp8dm Wrote: The Bortles signing after 2017 was absolutely an albatross that was tied around the neck of the franchise.  We caused ourselves cap hell by giving Bortles the contract he got after that playoff run.

Anybody that knew anything realized that Bortles was Garrard.  Einhorn was Finckle.  And yet we all watched as we made the exact same mistake that we did 10 years earlier.

The Bortles extension was one of the biggest mistakes of this franchise.  Any fan that had lived through the Garrard contract hell, could see the Bortles contract as the same thing. And yet...  Coughlin, in all his "wisdom" decided to go for it. 

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20...-year-ago/

Tom [BLEEP] Coughlin.  Worst Front Office dude ever.  But, like I said.  He destroyed the franchise and it resulted in Trevor Lawrence coming out from the ashes of that idiocy.  Coughlin crapped all over us.  And all that guano fertilized a tank job that finally bore fruit.