Signing Greg Hardy is a risk the Jaguars should not take

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Dave Caldwell had played things safe during his first three years as the Jacksonville Jaguars’ general manager. Now that it’s year four of the rebuild, he said it was time for the team to start gambling.

“We want to be great. We’ve got to take chances,” Caldwell said in April. “We’ve been pretty conservative in our time here and in our philosophy in drafting and in some of our free-agent acquisitions. There comes a point in time where we’ve got to close the talent gap and you’re not going to do that without taking risks.”

Signing free-agent defensive end Greg Hardy, whom the team worked out and visited with on Wednesday and Thursday, certainly qualifies, but it’s a risk the Jaguars didn’t take — yet. A league source said the team isn’t considering signing Hardy at this point, but that leaves open the possibility that could happen in the future.

That’s a chance the Jaguars absolutely shouldn’t take.

Hardy is one of the most talented defensive ends in the league and a very good pass-rusher, so from that standpoint it would make sense to …

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