Expressing an opinion – Welcome to the safe zone.

but I really don’t like one coming out of the first round. For that reason I wouldn’t be happy if Sanchez gets drafted. I like Rhett Bomar and Curtis Painter in the later rounds to groom for later seasons.

All good points. Not sure how good he could be but he is certainly looking mature and acting like a leader. He was at the Fred Taylor farewell at the rotary club. I think that says a lot. Any player that was there had to have come out moved and ready to represent Jacksonville and the owners. He is taking his career seriously just like Fred Taylor did.

Certainly towards the end of the year, but I think that’s due to the fact the JU Dolphins could have provided about as good of a pocket for him. Remember, he’s a Northcutt drop away from going punch for punch with Tom Brady.

from Bill Bradley (former NBA star and senator) answer to Bil Maher’s question about why the Knicks are so bad for a long time . He answered, because they drafted statistics instead of characters! Whoa, I’m stunned. And I agree, with those who says don’t pick a WR in the 1st round, don’t fall the temptation once again. BAP + character. I hope that will be counting 4 weeks from now.

Sanchez: I’m ok with the pick, but the real question with him is stoill this: would you pay 18 million $ to a guy who will sit on the bench this year and maybe more? That is the BIG question about him. Cause last year one of the reason the chemistry went bad, because some players who got huuuuuge salaries, they not leveled it with performance. Now if you draft Sanchez, you will face with the same problem(if he will sit in the bench, which he would if wee see David’s durability), which was one of the reason the chemistry was bad.

Now, David. I trust him. He will never a Brady, a Brees, a “big Ben”, but with a good cast he can lead this team anywhere, including to the Superbowl. He need to be a little better then he was in ’08. He must improve himself more. But i still trust him as this teams starting QB and leader.

Rebuilding the lines are critical, I agree. Both line need yound blood and talent. But remeber last year? What was the need? Defensive end! (Ok, we are wiser after the thing is done, but really that was the need last year?) And we drafted 2 in the first 2 round. Problem solved? No. Draft lineman, but draft them because they are BAP, and good charachter guys, not because of need! Don’t go to the same trap twice in 2 years!

Holt. I think now it is more and more an issue. If he chose the Titans that will be a middle size blow to the front office in a lot of people’s eyes, specially in an offseason where they saw more players leaving(and i know some of them were busts, but some of them were like Fred, Mike P, Spicer, players who played for a long time mostly good) instead of coming. So I hope Gene will do all his best to pick him. Vic Ketchman is not a big fan of free agency. Even he wrote, that he would be OK with Holt. That means a lot, if someone who like draft way more better then FA says like that. Mike Walker said he would learn very much of him. I think all the receivers would, even a long playing veteran like Northcutt. So this issue is more and more “need to do” in my eyes. Of course I know how big mistakes we did last year, but if he would sign for 10 million for 2 years, then go and get him.

Sanchez to me should be the pick if available. I’m not a Garrard hater nor am I a Sanchez homer but Garrard is not the superstar that we need in the huddle. If you watch Sanchez in USC tape he has a fluidity about him and excellent pocket awareness, the only main knock on him I’ve been hearing is the amount of experience he has. The rebuttal to that though is that he did spend a lot of time learning in a pro style offense.

We do still have an O-line problem there is no denying it, but there are some really good guys in the second round as well. Andre Smith to me is not a Gene Smith kind of guy. How about a William Beatty from Connecticut if he falls into the early second or Jamon Meredith from South Carolina?

I’m just trying to say we have options and we shouldn’t be gun shy to take a QB just because we have David Garrard. Give Sanchez time to learn and get familiar with the offense and then when the time, comes pass the torch.

Except for the Rose Bowl, I never saw anything from Sanchez that made me say “Wow.” In fact, Sanchez at the very least cost the Trojans a shot at the national title game considering his poor play vs Oregon St. It took almost the whole year to get USC’s offense in gear against a conference infamous for poor defensive play.

I enjoyed everyones comments. Ive said before i dont have too many people to talk football with and no one to talk jaguars football with so this site is a blessing. Sanchez, i believe will be a good quarterback, but im going to stop guessing who we draft, its a headache. Basically i like all the players in the top 10, but there is no greatness there that you usually see. I hope we trade down and get mauluga, just me though.
I also would rather have three 2nd rounders than one, too pricey first.

Groves – if he can add physicality to his motor, he just may become something (are you taking notes D. Harvey?).

Love the “build the lines” appraoch – it’s not sexy, but it’s definately the way to go and the biggest need of this team. I’m so so on Sanchez, to be frank, I wasn’t “blown away” impressed with him in college. I agree we need to begin to develop the future QB and now would be a nice time.

Holt – I went nuts last year when the Jags announced the Porter signing. Unlike the Porter disazster, Holt has acutal accomplishments as a 31 WR. He’s a high character guy with great work ethic — an IDEAL mentor for a retooled WR corp. I applaud a Holt signing.

Again – great post Tkopa

But the difference, besides age of course, is that we already have Garrard under contract, he’s used to our offense and has proven himself in the NFL, Sure he had a down year in 2008, but if you remember how good he was in 2007 then I say that we owe it to the entire team to stick with our guy and focus on getting back into the playoffs instead of a QB controversy. We still have a very good team that had an off year but with a solid draft and a few of our young guys living up to their potential we could be right back in the hunt.

I’m also with John on Sanchez. I never have seen anything amazing out of him, and neither Ohio State nor Penn State were great teams, no matter what the ESPN hype machine may have said. He pretty directly cost them the Oregon State game, which cost them a shot at the national title, and THAT is when it mattered most. Not some meaningless bowl game with a month to prepare for against a weak opponent.

The Jaguars do need to draft and develop a quarterback soon, but it hope it isn’t Sanchez, and there’s nothing that says they can wait till next year’s draft.

Have to build the lines. Have to sign Holt.

16 games…?

In any other draft he probably wouldn’t even be in the top 20.

I like freeman on the bench

All I want for Christmas is… the Jaguars making it deep into the playoffs no matter who they end up signing… I do agree with the point that if we’re going to pay some guy a bunch’a millions of bucks, he better make an immediate impact… I don’t like the idea of signing someone to a big #8 spot type contract to sit on the sidelines drinking all the Gatorade…