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PaperclipPerfector  2mo ago (text post)   2222 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 6, 2024

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And sometimes you tank for the top pick and end up with a Baker Mayfield or a Trevor Lawrence, whose best seasons have looked like the ones Tomlin's detractors are complaining about.

Trevor Lawrence’s best season saw his team making it all the way to the AFC Divisional Round and giving the Chiefs a hard-fought game which the Jags could have won if only a couple of moments (Christian Kirk’s costly drop, a bungled red-zone interception on what should have been an easily scooped tipped pass) had gone differently. I would submit that this is a good bit better than mediocrity.

Trevor Lawrence's best season (SO FAR) saw the team go 9-8 in the regular season. Which is the kind of season that Tomlin gets criticized for, being mediocre-good but not good enough to win a championship and remaining trapped in purgatory because playing like that they will never accumulate the draft capital to go get a really talented QB like Trevor Lawrence.

I like Lawrence and the Jaguars, they were fun to watch when they came to the Linc. (Has to be the only time in history an opposing coach came to a stadium with a statue of him outside, right?) I'd like to see them find their way to a great team. But Lawrence is definitely an example of how tanking for picks is a fraught strategy, already they're through Lawrence's cheap years.

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