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Its A Sabotage · Joined: 14 May 2010 Posts: 28139 Location: Do. Your. Job.

Didn't see it talked about, here is the run down:
http://www.bigcatcountry.com/2012/11/5/3607156/jaguars-news-fire-gene-smith-shad-khan

Mr. V · Joined: 07 Sep 2011 Posts: 2604 Location: Florida

Its A Sabotage · Joined: 14 May 2010 Posts: 28139 Location: Do. Your. Job.

Shad didn't want to knee-jerk, but this has got to stop.

Its A Sabotage · Joined: 14 May 2010 Posts: 28139 Location: Do. Your. Job.

Mr. V · Joined: 07 Sep 2011 Posts: 2604 Location: Florida

Outside of saying Robinson got benched, this article is dead on: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8609918/jacksonville-done-much-help-itself
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iPwn · Joined: 10 Oct 2009 Posts: 35491 Location: Stand United

The whole thing with Anger and likening him to Fantasy Football was ridiculous. The observation about Alualu being drafter there are false, as three of the next 4 teams drafting said that was their pick. While Robinson has been injured, he's played very well while healthy, something that was completely glossed over in favor of the more negative "benched for Cecil Shorts," all while ignoring that Shorts has been great and needed to be worked into the offense more. He also took to a footnote to mock players like Cox and Shorts being drafted because they went to small schools, despite the fact that they were clearly quality picks. Mocking Scobee's contract is laughable too, and they passed it off with a footnote at the bottom that well that read as "he's played well since midseason of 2010, but it's still a bad deal anyway because we say so."

Sure they got some things right. It's hard not to when bashing a bad team, but they whiffed on a lot just to puff up the story.
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Adrenaline_Flux · Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Posts: 15130 Location: The Iowa

I just can't take it seriously when I have to filter so much of it.

It sounds like he is basically just saying "mistakes have been made" which is kind of an obvious thing to say when a team is 1-8.

As far as Gene Smith is concerned, I think he's probably gone after this year. In all, his tenure as GM here was a failure simply because the records did not end up as what they needed to be (stating the obvious, but I'm doing it in a small amount of words so dealz wid it yo). I think he can be successful elsewhere (obviously in a smaller role) and it wouldn't surprise me if he was given a title close to or equivalent to GM sometime in the future (though many times GMs don't get more chances and it is obviously in question whether he can be "that" guy) simply because it's obvious, regardless of what has transpired here, that he knows football and he has a solid philosophy. If nothing else though, like I just said, he's a quality guy to have inside an organization and near a GM's ear.

I just hope the new GM doesn't blow things up simply because this team doesn't need blown up. Gene was successful in one regard: he has gotten us on base (ie: a lot of guys worth keeping on an NFL roster; this isn't like the 2008 team). We need someone (regardless if it's Gene or the new GM) to start batting people in. Hopefully Gabbert becomes an RBI king. Who knows though? While I'm on the subject though, that's another concern for me. What do we do if Gabbert re-injurying his torn labrum and us falling to 1-8 is enough to land him on IR or negate a quality evaluation the rest of the season?
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iPwn · Joined: 10 Oct 2009 Posts: 35491 Location: Stand United

I think most all of that is very fair.

Sent this to Sabo, figured I might as well put it here:

The thing is I'm not so much in full support of Gene, so much as I'm against the notion that he's done a horrible job. There's some good pieces here, quite a few of them. The thing is, whoever is GM next year has to hit some home runs. We are full of the base hits, but we don't have enough of the home runs. For instance, I feel like if we add one top 10 WR, the group becomes a top 10 group overall. The same for the O-line. The defense, I feel the same way, it's only 1-2 guys away.

I fully understand that the team isn't where it should be. It's not close. It has some glaring holes, but I feel that otherwise, they're built well. It's not good enough and if he has to go, as I've said all along, I'm okay with that. I just think people are taking much too much frustration out on him and making it seem like the job he's done has been much, much worse than it has been.
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