Porter had a bad hamstring all season plus a huge amount of pressure to play WR savior for a, let’s face it, crap team. One more year could have justified his signing and given the Jags their first receiving threat since Jimmy left town. If he didn’t perform in 2010 then cut him with no doubt left. Now we’ll always wonder what our team might have looked like with him as our #1.

Drayton I don’t mind cutting. He was garbage.

I’m with you man. While having team unity, and being unselfish is important to any teams success, you don’t win on Sunday without good players. Every team is going to have a few loudmouths. Believe me, I don’t like loudmouth players, but you can’t escape having them, as that is just human nature.

Jerry Porter seemed like an OK guy. He never complained to the media, and as he mostly blocked all season, he did a good job and always showed good effort doing something that most receivers hate doing(blocking). He was never thrown to that much either, I can only remember maybe one or two drops all season.

Florence played with good effort, and he seemed like a good character guy, but he was simply too overpaid to play nickle back.

We don’t need a new starter at WR or at CB as a result of this. They were brought in as starters but never did. The backup CB position that was just vacated can be filled in free agency for much cheaper than Florence was getting paid. As for Porter, the Jaguars were carrying 6 WRs last year and even when Porter was in the lineup he was the #3 man. Reggie will go, leaving 4 WRs with one position to be filled by the draft which doesn’t need to be a starting quality player.

That’s why I think dispite all the “draft is our territory”, I guess the Jaguars must be active in free agency. Not like last year, because we see how it ended, but they must sign one-two BETTER THAN AVERAGE free agentsI They cannot do with 6 picks

Porter and Florence were paid big bucks this past offseason, and what do the Jaguars have to show for it? Everyone else in the media made a HUGE WTF when we signed Porter to that kind of money. As I said, we all pointed to Randy Moss and said wait until he gets out of the Black Hole of Oakland. What did we get? A guy who got a million dollars for every catch he made as a Jaguar. And even if half of the stuff that’s been reported about his locker room behavior is true, I wouldn’t care if he had had the greatest season by a Jaguars receiver ever. And to people saying now we need a starter at WR and corner, these guys never were starters. We could fill the roles they had last year with just about any street free agent.

Now as for whether Del Rio is being setup to fail or not is a different question. I think it was understood we were in some sort of rebuilding phase. You don’t pick in the top 10 and not expect to have to do some reworking.

We’re officially in a rebuilding year because we cut those bums? Using them to transition to other players is a waste of time IMO. I like Gene shaking things up. There is FA and the draft to fill our holes the best we can. These two wastes of time won’t make our break our upcoming season. The season is more than who is on our roster. It’s the morale, charecter, and heart that a team comes out with that matters more. Look at teams like the Dolphins and Falcons. I would say that our roster on paper is better but when you get the right group of guys together and great coaching you can go a long loooong ways. Things look like they’re getting better.

Tough to say. Porter ended the season with a groin injury. These can be as severe as a hamstring injury. Maybe it’s to say, “no Dallas here”. Like you said Florence was a no brainer.

I bet you will see a trade down to pick up the CB (maybe Jenkins) with the first pick. Heard it here first. Better review the OT selection again. Second pick!

Was Gene flexing muscle or just cleaning the slate? I got to review this guy’s personality! No non-sense or scheming? Man, I love this stuff.

you may be right about that, although I can’t tell if you are being facetious or not…

Hey, you can’t mock us for making bad decisions AND mock us for making a good one. You’d agree that Porter and Florence are trash, so why mock us for calling a spade a spade.

-Chris

when they use “LOL”