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This is one of the most important columns I write every year: A look into projections I got wrong. Its important for several reasons:1. I take my job as a player evaluator seriously. This is not life or death, but it is my job and I strive to do the best I can. It is commonplace in the world of punditry for accountability to sometimes miss, but I have always tried to hold myself accountable. Nobody is a harsher critic of my work than myself -- and you can check my mentions on Twitter to verify that I have some harsh critics.2. It shows I am willing to learn, and am not married to a set of guidelines. Through the years I have been accused of having different biases, that Im in favor of small players, Europeans in general, Russians in particular, speedsters, flashy players, problem children, anybody that isnt a goaltender and so on. Ive heard many people describe to me how I think. 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Brian Downing was with the Chicago White Sox at a time when I listened to every game I possibly could on the radio. That particular season the late great Harry Caray was calling the White Sox games. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- For the first time in four years, Jacksonville Jaguars general manager Dave Caldwell believes his team doesnt have to be perfect to win.Caldwell spent much of his tenure rebuilding what was one of the worst rosters in the NFL. It was a slow process at first and was ramped up the last two years by spending more than $300 million in free agency.Now, the Jaguars have their best collection of talent and their highest expectations in nearly a decade. They open the season against Green Bay on Sunday.We can match up with virtually almost anybody, Caldwell said Wednesday. Everything doesnt have to go right and we still have chances.That hasnt always been the case.Of Jacksonvilles 36 losses over the last three seasons, 22 of them were by double digits. Caldwell had one of the NFLs least-competitive teams in recent memory in 2013, and it wasnt a whole lot better the following year.The Jaguars are just 3-20 in the first two months of the season during the Caldwell era, including 1-10 in September.I remember us sitting at 0-7, 0-8, maybe 0-9 (and taking a) drink of scotch, Caldwell joked.Jacksonville is counting on those days being done. If not, Caldwell and coach Gus Bradley could be in trouble. Owner Shad Khan already has said that everyones reasonable expectation for 2016 is a winning record.Caldwell agreed.To have a winning record is probably a reasonable expectation, Caldwell said. I think hes going to make a decision at the end of 16 games and say this is going in a direction that I like or this is not going in a direction that I like.The Jaguars believe they are headed in the right direction.With quarterback Blake Bortles, tight end Julius Thomas and receivers Allen Robinson and Allen Hurns, the Jags expect to continue making strides on offense. And defensive tackle Malik Jackson, safety Tashaun Gipson and cornerbacks Jalen Ramsey and Prince Amukamara should make immediate impacts on a revamped defense.The Jaguuars should have a good idea how they stack up after playing the Packers, who have made the playoffs seven straight years.ddddddddddddIm not real huge into predictions and all that stuff, but Im confident that the product were putting out there is better than the product that weve had in the years since Ive been here, since probably `07, veteran tight end Marcedes Lewis said. Very competitive. The fight is different. The feeling is different. I can say that and be genuine in it.The Jaguars felt like 2015 would be different, too. Bradley even raised eyebrows before the season by saying its built. Then they opened the season 1-5 and essentially ruined all the positive vibes for a franchise that hasnt made the postseason since 2007.We want to be a different team. We want to come out and show people were a different team, said Jackson, who came to Jacksonville after winning the Super Bowl with Denver. I dont know if playing Green Bay to start the season is good or bad. But its what we have to do. At the end of the day, thats who they put on our schedule for the first game. ... They could have given us the Super Bowl champs and we would have gladly gone out there and played them.Winning or losing the opener realistically means little. There have been plenty of teams start slow and make the playoffs, and just as many start fast and fade down the stretch.For Caldwell, early success might be better measured in terms of how the Jaguars handle -- or overcome -- adversity.The previous years I felt like we had to be perfect just to be in a game late, where here we can overcome a bad play, a fumble, a backed-up situation, a deficit, Caldwell said. Offensively we can score quickly and defensively I think we can hold the fort down.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/AP-NFL Wholesale Jerseys 2020 Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale Wholesale NFL Camo Jerseys Wholesale NFL T-shirts Cheap NFL Jerseys Throwback Youth NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys From China ' ' '