ndirish1978

Did you watch the draft. Please spare me your ignorance. When he took over Buddy laid out his plan and he hasn't deviated from it. 1- He said we would build through the draft. That we wouldn't be a team likely to trade around our draft picks, but would always look to acquire more. 2- He said he's not looking to make big free-agent splashes and prefers to re-sign productive players. 3- He said the process would most likely take about 3 years and he understood that would frustrate people. Last year they drafted for offense and those guys have yet to step up, but there's nothing that we can do about that. This year's draft was clearly predicated no fixing the defense and they have done that. The worst thing a franchise can do is hang on to and overpay players who has passed the prime of their careers, or never produced. We got rid of Whitner, Maybin and Evans this year because they were unlikely to surprise anyone with a productive year. I don't understand how 2 months ago people were saying we should get what we could for Lee, then turned around and acted like the sky was falling when we did.

Anything he writes after this qualifier is not an apology: "However, before going any further if for no other reason than my sanity—– what I published was NOT completely untrue. Though my erroneous coining of the word “steroids” is emphatically wrong, this was more than just the “routine” border incident most of us have experienced ourselves." He's saying, yeah I lied and said steroids, but I wasn't really lying. He is apologizing so people will stop berating him on twitter (which they have not) and to try and salvage his "reputation" (which is non=existent). After all the swagger and bravado he was exhibiting on twitter after the article ran I'm not buying this. He obviously didn't realize he was going to catch so much hatred over writing this garbage, got flustered by it all and is hastily trying to get out of the doghouse. If you go to Chan's video interview on the official website, the one where he talks about Torbor to IR, Moran asks him a question and Gailey responds "we don't get to talk about that." Moran, immediately self-conscious for no reason asks "I don't get to talk about it?" and Gailey looks at him like he's growing a second head cause the response was so out of left field. Eh, or maybe you're right. I don't know the guy, so I don't really feel the need to forgive him because I don't care about him as a person. I think he's slimy and disgusting and I'm not feeling bad for the crap he's taken or forgiving him just cause he asks for forgiveness after writing an article that had the potential to mess up someone's career and really screw the team.

Nowhere in that rambling, incoherent schlock, did I actually see an apology. All I read was a person standing on a soapbox and pretending to be magnanimous to all his haters by giving a half-assed justification for writing what he wrote. Hack writer, scumbag person (read his twitter post stating "if I'm lying may my eight-year-old daughter get hit by a car") and all-around loser.

I would like to see the numbers on which you based those calculations.

+1. We've been picking in the 8-12 range for years.

Moran is a scumbag; if for nothing else, for the tweet about his daughter. I'm never ready that crap publication of his again. For someone who is supposed to be an editor, he displays terrible writing skills and even worse scruples as a person.

Maybin is a joke. WE would love to line up against him. We could have Roscoe pancake block him from the slot and clear a running lane. He may be the weakest player in the NFL.

I got got by this for the 2nd time in 2 weeks

Dude we get it, you think you're a very special person. "I am very important, but I have so much integrity I can't really reveal everything that I know. However, I will still let you know that I know something so you can all see how important I am." How about this: either state your little bit of info or shut up. I'm tired o everyone tooting their own horns around here

It's not just poor recovery, he supposedly has another injury altogether

+1 I've been saying that for years!

I'm not an alarmist, but McKelvin has missed 3 tackles

oh no we suck again!

I like that Brad Smith is in a lot.

How many draft picks did we have? Can we force FAs to sign with us? NO. Quit whining, I'm so tired of it

Don't go to that hotel Spags, it's full of ghosts, it's a trap!

He took his heart... to San Francisco

Nah, he is actually entertaining. He and Brad Smith were needling each other back and forth over where they went to college. That kind of stuff is fun. I follow a bunch of the guys and it's actually cool to see that the team seems to genuinely like each other.

I've been saying the same thing for years. Donte is one of the best tackling safeties in the league. I wish he were better in coverage, but he is solid at the point of attack. That said, he needs to grow up asap, cause his mouth gets him into trouble a lot. I would be very happy re-signing him at around $4M.

http://www.eyeblack.com/stevie-johnson/#small

Carey is due about $5M this year. If they cut him I think we could pick him up for around 3-3.5M. Clabo signed a 5 yr contract for 25, he's better and younger, so I don't think it's unrealistic to think we could get him on the lower side of my estimate. They went after Clabo, so you know we're interested in the position. That said, Pears is only making 640k this year and if they only see it as a slight upgrade in Carey, I think they don't pull the trigger.

For not trying you are succeeding! We have DL players like Troupe/Carrington, LBs like Moats who have just finished their first year and could develop into solid starters. We don't know what we have in Batten yet, but there's no reason to write him off. We drafted 2 rookie ILBs and I expect Kelvin Sheppard to start; we upgraded our veteran ILB position with Barnett over Pos, Merriman should finally be healthy, we drafted the best DL player in the draft, picked up a big physical rookie CB and a young SS. Oh and we picked up a developmental guy who is the largest human in the NFL who has great athleticism. That's just on D. We could win 7+ games this year.

Let's step up the twitter campaign since we know he's reading!

The Jags paid pos $7M PER YEAR!! That's too much. I'm not upset we didn't win that bidding war. I shudder to think of the reaction on this board if we would have signed him for that amount or more- shades of the Kelsay deal. To put that in perspective. There are only 8 ILBs in the league making 7 or more per year.

Jags are paying him $7M per year per Schefter tweet! That's ridiculous.