This team spent a lot on free agency last year. There are clearly some limits with the salary cap regarding how much we can spend this off-season. However, we still have a relatively cheap quarterback situation. Would you go all in, try to restructure contracts, and continue adding talent to make a Super Bowl push next year, or would you take the strategy of being more conservative to play long game? The long game would mean trying to keep the cap balanced to field competitive team over the next 5 to 10 years?

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This team spent a lot on free agency last year. There are clearly some limits with the salary cap regarding how much we can spend this off-season. However, we still have a relatively cheap quarterback situation. Would you go all in, try to restructure contracts, and continue adding talent to make a Super Bowl push next year, or would you take the strategy of being more conservative to play long game? The long game would mean trying to keep the cap balanced to field competitive team over the next 5 to 10 years?

Bring in any exceptional high priced free agents, but no more than 1 or two. Cut guys like Shaq and MJ who are eating up cap space and adress the rest in the draft.

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I’m going all in every season while Lawrence is on his rookie deal.

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You have to do a happy medium. Don't mortgage the future but don't be scared to get a guy if you feel he can put is over the top. You have to be smart about it

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Hundreds of hours of research, consuly my staff and the coaches, and figure out what i would feel is the best way. Who says one is right over the other. Ultimately my job depends on it.

My gut would be a combo leaning a little heavy on emphasis for the next few years.

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Spend up to the cap. Feel free to push free agent money out to 2025. 2026 is when TLaw gets his big contract. Don't push big free agent money into 2026 or any year after. Don't go too crazy in the draft. The goal should be finding 4 starters in every draft.

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My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.

Focus on getting every drop of talent out of the draft.

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Yeah, it will be so important to have a good draft this year. I think the offense is looking set. I would say try to find a gem at guard though. The goal should be to get by the chiefs. That means the jags need another good cb and maybe an impact player on the defense line. This team is not that far away. I would go all out while the first window of opportunity is open during tlaw rookie contract.

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Easiest decisions for me off the top going forward are releasing Griffin and letting Taylor walk.

Figure out who is going over to RT between Cam/Little and find a new swing OT. Little is a starting OT in this league and he needs to play. Put that money it'd take to pay Taylor else where and hope we get a Comp pick in return for once.

Extend Josh Allen who's coming off a good year, but not a great year. I don't think you'd have to break the bank for him on a deal right now. Especially with spirits running high around the Franchise. Sure does sound like the players want to be there. Regardless we have him locked up on the 5th year option, but I think it'd be a mistake to not extend him now. Playing the "let him walk and just draft his replacement" game rarely works. You don't let a good young player go unless you already have a better replacement and we don't. I also think he's going to have an even better year next season and that'll just drive his price up.

Got to re-sign Engram. We don't have jack squat at TE on the roster and he's a good player. Best receiving threat at TE this team has ever had. I'm still drafting another TE to pair with him though.

I'd like to bring back Key as well, but those are my top priorities going into next season.

Can't go heavy on Free Agency simply because we don't have boat loads of $$$ like we usually do, but they'll need to bring in either a swing OT, or LG in Free Agency. The other should be acquired via the draft. I think I'd lean towards drafting a swing OT to develop and bring in a LG via FA to compete with Bartch, but a case could easily be made for either way. I think going with a LG in FA would give us a little more leeway in the draft though. Would let us draft a swing OT a little later on to develop, rather than needing an early pick LG to compete/play from day 1.

The main focus will definitely need to be on the draft and adding through it though. 9 total picks, with 5 in the first 4 rounds. In those 5 picks we need to come away with a (in no order) CB, TE, OT/OG, Pass Rusher (inside or outside, but ideally inside) for sure imo. You could then make the case for another Pass Rusher, another OG/OT (again a lot will depend on how FA plays out), or another WR among those first 5 picks. If they release Jenkins then you have to throw Safety into the mix as well.

Depending how the draft falls will heavily influence where the positions are acquired of course, but right now I think that 1st round pick is looking like Pass Rush, OL(would be a LG in this case) or TE. I think day 2 will be the sweet spot for our 3rd CB.

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Easiest decisions for me off the top going forward are releasing Griffin and letting Taylor walk.

Figure out who is going over to RT between Cam/Little and find a new swing OT. Little is a starting OT in this league and he needs to play. Put that money it'd take to pay Taylor else where and hope we get a Comp pick in return for once.

Extend Josh Allen who's coming off a good year, but not a great year. I don't think you'd have to break the bank for him on a deal right now. Especially with spirits running high around the Franchise. Sure does sound like the players want to be there. Regardless we have him locked up on the 5th year option, but I think it'd be a mistake to not extend him now. Playing the "let him walk and just draft his replacement" game rarely works. You don't let a good young player go unless you already have a better replacement and we don't. I also think he's going to have an even better year next season and that'll just drive his price up.

Got to re-sign Engram. We don't have jack squat at TE on the roster and he's a good player. Best receiving threat at TE this team has ever had. I'm still drafting another TE to pair with him though.

I'd like to bring back Key as well, but those are my top priorities going into next season.

Can't go heavy on Free Agency simply because we don't have boat loads of $$$ like we usually do, but they'll need to bring in either a swing OT, or LG in Free Agency. The other should be acquired via the draft. I think I'd lean towards drafting a swing OT to develop and bring in a LG via FA to compete with Bartch, but a case could easily be made for either way. I think going with a LG in FA would give us a little more leeway in the draft though. Would let us draft a swing OT a little later on to develop, rather than needing an early pick LG to compete/play from day 1.

The main focus will definitely need to be on the draft and adding through it though. 9 total picks, with 5 in the first 4 rounds. In those 5 picks we need to come away with a (in no order) CB, TE, OT/OG, Pass Rusher (inside or outside, but ideally inside) for sure imo. You could then make the case for another Pass Rusher, another OG/OT (again a lot will depend on how FA plays out), or another WR among those first 5 picks. If they release Jenkins then you have to throw Safety into the mix as well.

Depending how the draft falls will heavily influence where the positions are acquired of course, but right now I think that 1st round pick is looking like Pass Rush, OL(would be a LG in this case) or TE. I think day 2 will be the sweet spot for our 3rd CB.

The Josh Allen situation is extremely tricky. Let’s say they let him play out his 5th year option and he goes crazy. 17.5 sacks or something like that. Then his contract will be even crazier. I’m kinda with you and think they should try to get something done now where the price tag may be a little lower.

I think there’s no way Engram leaves. I think Taylor is as good as gone. Taylor is fine but Lawrence makes both tackles (Robinson and Taylor) look WAY better than they actually are. Little at LT and Robinson at RT (may be hard to persuade him but who cares). Hopefully they bring back Key.

I agree with your draft thoughts but I got a sneaky feeling someone is going to be there that the Jags didn’t expect and they snag them.

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What I would like to see for this year is to re-sign everybody and use the draft to strengthen a few areas like interior offensive line, defensive backfield, and defensive line. Ideally, our first draft pick would be an interior offensive lineman. At that point, our offense would be set.

We could easily accomplish all this by simple restructures on a few contracts. But we'd have to plan for the 2024 offseason cap management.

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First of all, I'm getting under the cap. I'm not pushing money into the future, because that only creates more problems down the road. I realize this is a marathon, not a sprint. Yes, we made the playoffs this year, but we still have a long way to and I'm gonna make sure we are set up for the future, so we can consistently be Superbowl contenders. I'm not mortgaging the future. I easily cut Griffin, Robertson-Harrison, Jenkins and Chaisson. That saves roughly $30 million. I restructure deals with Brandon Scherff, Cam Robinson and Foley Oluokun to create even more cap space. I do EVERYTHING I can to re-sign Evan Engram. He and Trevor Lawrence are the key to our passing game. We cannot let Engram go, especially with the fact we are so thin at the TE position. I let Jawaan Taylor walk.

From there, I sign a few reasonably priced free agents that could compete for various starting roles and give us some much needed depth without tanking our cap in future years. In the draft, I focus on the O-Line, D-Line and Nickle positions, but I always take the BAP regardless of position. If I can find a starting Safety to replace Jenkins and another really good TE to pair with Engram, that would be great, but I'm not deviating from my board. Rome wasn't built in a day. I'm playing the long game. We gotta structure our contracts so that we have the necessary funds in the next couple of years to make sure we can get Lawrence his massive contract extension, which will be coming up shortly.

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This team spent a lot on free agency last year. There are clearly some limits with the salary cap regarding how much we can spend this off-season. However, we still have a relatively cheap quarterback situation. Would you go all in, try to restructure contracts, and continue adding talent to make a Super Bowl push next year, or would you take the strategy of being more conservative to play long game? The long game would mean trying to keep the cap balanced to field competitive team over the next 5 to 10 years?

I would say play it conservatively in 2023. Build up through the draft. Look to find replacements now to lessen the burden of backfilling in 2024 and beyond. The goal should be moving money around to maintain a decent core of talent around Lawrence offensively through 2025. 

Which I think they're in position of being able to do so. I think we should let 2023 ride out with Pederson and Lawrence together in year two. See if the execution is better, etc. The odds of them being in an AFC Championship game are high already IMHO. Just based on year one. 

Now, if they end up losing to a team like the Bengals, Chiefs or Bills in the play-off's after getting one or two wins into the series? That's when I start looking at an immediate difference maker to break the bank with and push the cap to it's max. My personal feeling, is that, offensively we'll be in good shape. 

Defensively? That's where my concern primarily rests. We may need a big time CB or EDGE rusher at some point if Walker doesn't turn out fast enough and Allen is gone after this year after being abysmal or lighting it up in 2023. It'll be interesting for sure.

But, again, my main goal right now is building for the future by stockpiling talent to develop along slowly in 2023/2024. Need to bolster the interior line play on both sides IMHO, just based on age, injury history and lack of talent there in general. Then you expand outwards from there and look for rotational guys to work in as rookies at other key positions.

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"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."

This is not hard.

Pre-free agency:
Cut Griffen, decide on RRH and Rayshawn (~17m if cut).

Restructure to push some money forward for last year's FA class.

Sign Engram, Key, and Patterson; Taylor only if we can reasonably (I don't think we can).

Bring back some of the veteran depth guys like Dewey, Gotsis, and Manhertz who you can probably get for vet minimum type deals.

Make a decision on Beathard, he's a pricey vet but been a good backup.

Free agency:
Sign 1 pricey interior defensive lineman if available. I would spend my money on Javon Hargrave or Daron Payne if either hits the market (Bye RRH if so).

Sign a nickel corner if we don't already have one here that Doug thinks will do.

Find a veteran QB backup if CJ leaves.

Draft:
Linemen and tight end, period. A safety only if Jenkins is cut.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

Lawrence is eligible for a new deal in March of 2024

Those expecting to wait until 2026 may be in for a shock if both parties decide to lock him up asap

It could happen

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They will be going conservative bc Lawrence’s deal will be renewed next season. It will be the richest contract in franchise history.

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They will be going conservative bc Lawrence’s deal will be renewed next season. It will be the richest contract in franchise history.

It will be richer by about 100+ million dollars too.

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Yes it will. Mega deal incoming.

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Lawrence is eligible for a new deal in March of 2024

Those expecting to wait until 2026 may be in for a shock if both parties decide to lock him up asap

It could happen

I did not know that.  
Gotta keep TLaw happy.  Even if it limits our options in other areas.

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My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.

They will be going conservative bc Lawrence’s deal will be renewed next season. It will be the richest contract in franchise NFL history.

Don't kid yourselves, Shad about to open the checkbook for his 2 time Superb Owl winning QB.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato