I think you did a good job of assessing and getting it right. Garrard and Taylor need to step up, hopefully. A win at home, vs titans, would work WONDERS for our boys. Jack, get your shit together baby!!

Despite the talent of our team, our coaching staff and their play calling has left us in a tight spot. Granted, we have a number of vital positions affected by injury, but we are still strong at the skill positions. The coach’s jobs are to adapt and suit the game plan to the strength’s of our players instead of forcing them to play into a system that obviously doesn’t work. Our body is fine, but our brain is, um,… slow.

The Jags are a train wreck right now. We never seem able to field the same team week after week because atleast two players are hurt. Then they come back but another guy goes down. Im worried about who is going to replace Matt Jones during the suspension. Porter isnt, R. Williams isnt, Northcutt isnt, I hope that it is Walker. He is the only other WR I have seen do anything promising. The coaches seem to make the biggest boneheaded calls that I have ever seen from a Jag team. Its frustrating to me to watch but I am a fan so I will stand by them, I just dont see a happy ending to this season.

Just terrible. I drove 6 hrs and spent $200 on a hotel to witness that crap they called a game. Cheers to Garrard and Jones. The only 2 guys that realized it was Sunday. What was up with that running right into the scrum of players Taylor and MJD? A guy yelled out right behind me, “don’t go in there!” It was laughable. And Jack that 4th and 1 call? Ya think they were looking for a run right up the gut? Why not have David just sneek it? or better yet maybe the play action pass or a boot-leg? Not the same play they had stopped all game.

And where in the hell is this defense there Mastermind Smith? Burn after Burn. Outcoached by Romeo? that should be the big insult. He is a joke. His own fans don’t even like him.

Man…it is time to crack some skulls. I’m pissed as a fan. Sorry for the language.

no apologies needed.

I found this site called Gridironmine.com and it has the Jaguars calculated with a 18.1% chance of making the playoffs.

You know that some team will get on a roll at midseason why not the Jags.

man, i thought my depression was rock bottom, then you reminded me that basketball will be the only other sport on tv. great. guess I can start watching reality television.

…not coaching… but that’s an outsider perspective, of course.

Believe me, as a Texans fan – I can sympathize with the havoc injuries can wreak on a team. I see nothing wrong with MJD and FT this year, it just seems like all the O-line injuries are killing your run game.

Of course, the Jags D hasn’t been as fearsome as it has been in prior years… and I think the Harvey holdout was a pretty big blow – especially since you guys cut some pass rushers in the off-season (if I remember right) because you were counting on the new guys working out.

Anyway – here’s the good news – you’ve got Cincy and Detroit to play still… and I don’t think it matters in the slightest that those games are on the road.

We Texans fans were very afraid of the Cincy game because of their great receivers and our CRAP secondary – turns out, all you have to do is jump on them early, and they’ll quit. You guys saw that ridiculous Kevin Walter TD where the Bengal defender pretty much just quit on the play.

Detroit is Detroit. You guys will crush them, as we did for a half.

Anyway – we’re rivals and I root against you guys obviously, but you’re a bunch of passionate, knowledgeable fans… so I like coming over here once in a while… plus, I’m a huge, huge fan of Jack Del Rio.

See y’all on December 1st.

Chris

These are pretty glaring dificiencies on this team and you’ve listed them out pretty well. You can add Williamson to your list of off season aquisitions that have not panned out so far as well.

Lack of runnig game is impacted by a couple of things. 1) Teams are now loading the box to take away the run 2) injuries and reshuffling of O Line and 3) lack of explosive / impact WR (no one strikes fear into opposing D’s) Matt Jones – what a turn around from last year. I think he’s the most improved player in the entire league, but unfortunately, he’s not a deep threat.

SO FAR (key phase here) our off season has been a bust and is this years biggest downfall. Whether it’s draft picks (Groves / Harvey) that have not produced yet, or trade and FA aquisitions (WR) that can’t get on the field (for whatever the reason: injury, bad play, etc), that has caused this team to take a step back from last year’s team.

Maybe a year from now these guys become ALL Galaxy, but for the here and now, it hasn’t worked out SO FAR.

I would add one more thing. Last year’s team had the “IT” factor and you could see “IT”. They were special and they were clicking – hence the high expectations coming into this year. This year’s team seems to be lacking “IT”. Mercedes Lewis even commented on this in a recent interview. I know it’s a totally subjective thing, but I beleive it is important.

They dont have “IT”. They have no identity, it used to be that they were a tough hard as nails defensive team that ran the ball down your throat. I guess those days are behind us. OGN you forgot to mention the other expensive bust we signed this year. Florence is going to give the CB job back to Williams and Sensabauagh will be the SS soon. On the flip side, if the line can somehow gell in the next few weeks that will help the run game out immensely or atleast some. With the run game going hopefully that will keep the offense on the field longer and we wont have to worry about the defense blowing leads for us. Its not over yet. JDR is a good coach. Now we get to see how good.

Just to let you know dude, congrats you made it onto SI.com’s top stories about the Jaguars