You are too kind. Its much much worse. Stephen is pre-occupied with bringing back players who come up short as a group every year. He has no interest in figuring out how to make the team better. He has no idea. He lives in such a bubble, that he thinks he already built a winner and now he just has to keep the parts together. It is an insane approach to football.
Other teams are scrambling now to re-configure their rosters to compete and address weaknesses. But thats too much work and uncertainty (due to their own ignorance of the league) for the Jones boys. The easiest thing to do is keep what you got and hope for a better result. Our process is basically the path of least resistance.
I don’t think most of our fans realize how lazy the Jones front office is. When most NFL executives are working long hours studying film, scouting, assessing team strengths and weaknesses…the Jones are sailing to Greece or hosting a media event on the party bus.
And some apologists will say, “Yeah but they delegate all that to Will McClay and others”. Really? Other than letting McClay put together recommendations for the draft and for cheap FAs, the Jones make the big decisions. And that’s what THEY say.
If these guys were serious about winning, they would at least acknowledge that changes are needed. Nope. Not with these clowns. They are back, full steam ahead with their usual “process”. They think they are just “unlucky”, instead of realizing they are just “unskilled”.