Hey everybody, this is your GM, your back row
dominance, your GM who currently is not on a
team right now, but don't you worry about it,
your hopium, hopium, hopium, hopium, hopium dealer
here to give you episode 13 of the Stack and
Shed series. Now in this series, we're covering
all 32 teams, so everybody gets a chance to be
talked about, all right? Now in this series,
we're covering a few different topics and they
include what went wrong, what do they need, stack
or shed, their draft picks. one move I would
do in their cap space right now in this episode
we're going to do vol and we're talking about
the Jacksonville Jaguars I'm gonna let you guys
know right now this was by far the most difficult
one to do because I tried to find something that
was wrong with this team and I nicked and I picked
and I couldn't find something until I did find
something but it might be a little bit minute
might be a big problem I don't know but let's
talk about it All right, let's get into it. So
what went wrong in the Jaguar season? And I will
eventually say it was a slow offensive and defensive
start. Despite the controversial hiring process
of Liam Cohen, my expectations for the Jaguars
this past season was very low because we've seen
this same story over and over and over again.
And that is the Jaguars will bring in a head
coach who they believe is going to take this
team to the next level. They may exceed expectations
in their first year. They may win a playoff game,
maybe two playoff games. Who knows? And for the
rest of their tenure, they're trying to regain
the momentum they had in the first season. Players
are wanting out. There's division between the
front office and the coaching staff. The coaching
staff is leaking out things to insiders. There's
just chaos everywhere. Although the Jaguars drafted
Travis Hunter, I was never under the impression
that he was going to be the sole reason why this
offense goes to another level. Instead, I just
thought that he was just going to be a Swiss
Army knife that they can use in a variety of
different ways. And as we saw last season, the
offense didn't really take off until they acquired
Jacoby Myers. According to Sumer Sports, From
Week 1 to Week 9, Trevor Lawrence was 293 attempts
for 175 completions, 1 ,840 passing yards, 9
touchdowns, 6 interceptions, a 59 .7 completion
percentage, while averaging 6 .2 yards per attempt,
230 yards per game, with a 79 .7 passer rating.
Now from week 10 to week 18, Trevor Lawrence
was 267 attempts for 166 completions, 2 ,167
passing yards, 20 touchdowns, 6 interceptions,
a 62 .1 completion percentage, while averaging
8 .1 yards per attempt, 240 yards per game, with
a 103 .3 passer rating. Defensively, I don't
know why they started slow. I don't know if it
was a coaching issue, if it was a schematic issue,
if it was a player issue, but whatever it was,
it took them a long time to figure it out. According
to Sumer Sports, the Jaguars' defense from Week
1 to Week 9 allowed 2 ,689 yards, 4 .5 yards
per play, while generating 10 sacks, 11 interceptions,
five forced fumbles, and recovering four fumbles.
But from week 10 to week 18, the Jaguars' defense
allowed 2 ,473 yards, 3 .6 yards per play, while
generating 22 sacks, 11 interceptions, six forced
fumbles, and recovering five fumbles. Now with
that being said, what do the Jaguars need? And
that is a better start to the season. By starting
off hot, you're applying added pressure on your
division rivals to keep up with you. We saw last
season that this division was very competitive
until the end. So if I'm the Jaguars, I want
to try to maintain at least a three to four game
lead over the Texans and the Colts. Because at
the end of the day, you want to try to lock up
the division as quickly as possible. You don't
want this thing to draw out until the last week
of the season. Because the longer that this thing
draws out, the better the chance that the Texans
or the Colts or maybe even the Titans, surprisingly,
may try to take the division from you. Now, with
that being said, the question we all need to
ask ourselves is stack. or shed. And I would
venture to say stack. And the reason why I say
that is because you guys were almost close to
being the Bills last season in the playoffs.
There's no need for you to scrap this team. But
instead, you need to continue to build this team
the right way. And that is good drafting, good
signings, and allowing this team to grow. a lot
of times we see that teams don't allow their
players to grow. Players are going to make mistakes.
Now, it's what you do with those mistakes that
matters the most. Now, do I think this team is
in the right direction with Liam Cohen? I don't
know. It's still too early to tell, but I do
believe they have the infrastructure to be successful.
Looking at their draft picks, they have a second,
three -thirds, a fourth, two -fifths, a sixth,
and three -sevenths. Now, I don't expect the
Jaguars to use all 11 picks, but instead, I think
they're going to group some of them to either
trade up, trade down, or use them for future
assets in the 27 draft class. Now the one move
that I would do is keep Travis Hunter at corner.
By acquiring Jacoby Myers and Parker Washington
showing some promise and the expectation that
Brian Thomas is going to have a resurgence in
this upcoming season, it lessens the need for
Travis Hunter to be a dual threat player and
increases his role of being a number one corner.
When Travis Hunter is with the defense, they
allow Seth 761 yards, 4 .9 yards per play, while
generating 5 sacks, 5 interceptions, 1 forced
fumble, and recovering 1 fumble. But when Travis
Hunter isn't with the defense, they allow 4 ,401
yards, 4 .9 yards per play, while generating
27 sacks, 17 interceptions, 7 forced fumbles,
and recovering 6 fumbles. Now maybe once in the
blue moon you want to spice things up a bit,
maybe get the crowd going, fine. i have no problem
with that but to have him take offensive and
defensive snaps every single game is unnecessary
at this point looking at their cap space they
have 6 .8 million now i expect for them to move
some money around so that they can be players
in that second and third wave of free agency
while having more than enough to sign all their
draft picks. Now I'm curious, whose contract
can they restructure or extend in order to generate
more cap space? Could they do something with
Trevor Lawrence? Could they do something with
Eric Armstead? Could they try to give an extension
to Trayvon Walker and maybe you can do something
with their cap space right now? I don't know.
Time will tell. But I'm going to end this episode
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