{"id":5413,"date":"2016-11-03T18:53:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T22:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2016-11-03T18:53:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T22:53:03","slug":"blow-up-the-jacksonville-jaguars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2016\/11\/03\/blow-up-the-jacksonville-jaguars\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Time to Blow Up the Jacksonville Jaguars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacksonville Jaguars fans have sat through three and a half years of terrible football. The\u00a0front office told the fans to be patient during the rebuild. They told the fans the team is built<\/a>. Fans believed and came into 2016 with much\u00a0hope and anticipation only to be rewarded with more terrible football.<\/p>\n

Owner\u00a0Shad Khan<\/strong> has decided to not fire Bradley for whatever reason, and the fans have ultimately had enough. Fans have been booing the team\u00a0as the product on the field has been abysmal. Players have even started to call out the fans<\/a>\u00a0as a result which is very disappointing\u00a0given what the fans have had to endure the past nine years. The rebuild has failed miserably, and there\u2019s only one thing left to do, blow up this team.<\/p>\n

Blow Up the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Clear the Front Office<\/h3>\n

Shad Khan has sat back idly and watched his team\u2019s futile attempts at playing winning football for far too long. Khan needs to take ownership of this team and clear house. Gus Bradley needs to be fired immediately. His defensive scheme simply cannot be replicated outside of Seattle<\/strong>.\u00a0He has not proven capable of making the necessary adjustments to put his players in the best position to perform well.<\/p>\n

During Bradley\u2019s tenure, two offensive coordinators and one defensive coordinator have been fired inside of four years. Dave Caldwell<\/strong> has fired everyone except the person that should have been let gone by now. Caldwell\u2019s job security was solid following the 2015 season because of Blake Bortles<\/a><\/strong>\u2019 impressive sophomore campaign. However, Bortles\u2019 regression this season has exposed Caldwell to more criticism for his misses in the first and second rounds. Allen Robinson<\/a><\/strong> and Jalen Ramsey<\/a><\/strong> are his only two hits, and any person with a brain would not have passed on Ramsey.<\/p>\n

Free Agency Disappointments<\/h3>\n

Free agency has been hit and miss for Jacksonville, but even the hits haven\u2019t proven to help the team win ball games so far. Malik Jackson<\/a><\/strong> is a great player and brings pressure every game, but for that amount of money you want sacks and he has just one so far in seven games. Tashaun Gipson<\/a><\/strong> isn’t bad, but he certainly hasn’t impressed either. Julius Thomas<\/a><\/strong> makes an appearance every few weeks, then disappears. Jared Odrick<\/a><\/strong> is a good run defender, but those players come a dime a dozen for far less money.<\/p>\n

The offensive line play is still poor even after bringing in Kelvin Beachum<\/a><\/strong> and Jermey Parnell<\/a><\/strong>. Davon House<\/a><\/strong> is a fourth string corner after one up and down season. Dan Skuta<\/a><\/strong> is a running joke at this point. Chris Ivory<\/a><\/strong> was never going to look good behind this offensive line. Prince Amukamara<\/a><\/strong> has played well enough to warrant a second contract in Jacksonville. Ultimately though, with 14 wins in 55 games<\/a>, it is very hard to argue that free agency has done anything to aid this team over the past four years.<\/p>\n

Pieces to Keep<\/h3>\n

If Shad Khan decides to blow up this team, and he should, there are only a dozen or so players that deserve to stick around: Jalen Ramsey, Allen Robinson, Malik Jackson, Brandon Linder<\/a><\/strong>, Telvin Smith<\/a><\/strong>, Myles Jack<\/a><\/strong>, Prince Amukamara, Yannick Ngakoue<\/a><\/strong>, A.J. Cann<\/a><\/strong>, Aaron Colvin<\/a><\/strong> and Roy Miller<\/a><\/strong>. Of course, a few other players such as Sheldon Day<\/a><\/strong> and Dante Fowler<\/a><\/strong> need more evaluation because of their youth.<\/p>\n

Bortles will get another year to prove if his sophomore campaign was a fluke year or if he truly can be that franchise quarterback the fans thought he potentially was a mere three months ago. The fact that the number of players who should be retained after four drafts is so low is damning on Caldwell\u2019s remaining time as the Jaguars\u2019 general manager.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the poor performance of the team is solely on Gus Bradley\u2019s shoulders. One\u00a0will never know for sure because Caldwell and Khan continue to allow the second\u00a0worst head coach in NFL history<\/a> to remain employed. Fans\u00a0can only hope a new coach would revitalize these players and have them ready to play good football for 60 minutes, but over the last four years only a handful of players could do so. The Jaguars\u00a0are where they are now because the front office has tolerated a losing culture, and the fans have suffered through this ineptitude for an unacceptable amount of time. Shad Khan, it\u2019s high time to blow this team up.<\/p>\n

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