(12-27-2023, 01:30 AM)nhiverson Wrote:

(09-24-2023, 04:19 PM)TTechJag85 Wrote: I mean my goodness … on tank dells two deep balls they were complete busts ! No safety in the middle of the field corner outside leverage so he can just run a skinny post and completely get behind the defense ? Are we serious? And the TD what the heck have we never played a bunch set before ? 

Multiple other receivers with no one in the vicinity and 0 pressure on a Backup o line ?

Watch stroud will end up looking like every other rookie QB for most of the rest of the year ….


We just managed to make a game so easy for a rookie it looked like he was playing against Rutgers when he was at Ohio state…

Pathetic . 

Heads need to roll for this . At least figure out who wants to man up and do their fricking jobs . What these grown men are getting paid to sticking do .

(12-26-2023, 11:28 PM)SeldomRite Wrote: There been production inflation, but it's still worth comparing among contemporaries, and Brunel was never good compared with the franchise QBs of the time.

Good QBs would throw more than 20 TDs, and great ones would throw in the 30s. Brunell only threw for as many as 20 here, which is pretty pathetic considering the talent surrounding him.

Personally I think talent wise Garrard was better than Brunell or at least equal.

Garrard had potential to be maybe the next Steve McNair or Donovan McNabb had the Del Rio era not decided to pull the trigger too soon on Brunell and Leftwich.

Brunell still had a good year or two left in the tank. He showed that with Joe Gibbs in Washington when he helped lead their team back to the play-off's.

Garrard was never really given a fair shake to start and develop. The knock on him was his tendency to check it down, which, you know, for that time and that offense relying on two really good runners? It didn't hurt us too bad. They tried adding pieces like Reggie Williams and Matt Jones but it never worked out.

With that said? It's hard to stack up any of our QB's with Brunell. He helped cultivate Coughlin's culture here for five years in a row. Put Jacksonville on the map and had some memorable moments in some good games for us and some forgettable moments in some bad losses for us. 

That's the nature of the sport and position as a whole. We can all certainly agree on one thing though, the amount of talent that Brunell had at his disposal, combined with a competent offensive line with a hall of fame LT on it, a hall of fame caliber WR1 and RB1 and a really good supporting cast at WR2 and TE?

Nothing has come close to that success until as recently as last year and this year. We have the QB, we have the skill position players, we just don't have the lineman up front to make it work and we're really not all that great on defense like those teams were in the 1990's as well. Something that gets overlooked I think. 

We just don't do enough consistently on defense to wow anybody. As much [BLEEP] as Lawrence is taking for this team's woes and [BLEEP] up's? This defense had two massive let downs in two weeks in a row in games where we could have and probably should have won and we're not sweating these last two weeks so much. 

Frustrating. This team shot the gap, missed their landing and now their hanging on by their fingertips. It is what it is.

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