Jacksonville Jaguars: 3 Bolder Moves This Offseason
By David Levin
While the offseason has been anything but quiet here in Jacksonville, the Jaguars are about to embark on free agency and the NFL Draft.
What are the Jacksonville Jaguars going to do? Free agency is less than a month away. the NFL Draft is seven weeks from now. There is almost $23M in salary cap money to spend. Oh, and there is one player who wants practically all of that to play football in North Florida this coming season.
It all makes for an interesting soap opera for the fans to sit back and watch with anticipation.
If there was ever a calm before a great storm here in Duval County, we are all witnessing it before our very eyes. It’s exciting and uneasy tied into one package.
This is a team that will have a few changes on the roster at the end of April. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Those changes, however, better ensure a winning record or a drastic change for the better or there will be “other” changes moving forward.
At the NFL Combine, head coach Doug Marrone talked at length about one potential change – Myles Jack. While he would not commit to the idea of moving the middle linebacker back to the strong side where he is most effective, he did talk about how Jack’s versatility is an asset on the football field.
"“At the end of the day, whatever combination is going to make us a better [team], that’s what we’re going to do,” Marrone said. “We’re going to make sure we better the team as a whole.”"
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I think that’s a mantra many of the Jaguars front office personnel and the coaching staff will use as part of their synergy to build a winning football team in 2020.
Everything the Jaguars do in the next few weeks is dependant on what they do with high-priced veterans and how much more cap space they create.
Last week, I wrote a story about three bold predictions for this offseason. Evidently, they weren’t bold enough for one of our readers, and I took it as a challenge. So with that incentive, I jumped back onto the computer to add a few more thoughts on how this team could make bold moves and get better – not just for 2020 but for the future.