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I'm bored of reading all this "Hot seat List" articles and that kind of stuff that usually just reads that David Garrard is just not living up to his contract. I'm bored and bothered by this articles not just because I don't think that's the case, but because I think the guys that write them won't even bother to research a bit.

That is why I present to you my main argument to why David is a pretty good Qb.

Recently the Jaguars offense has characterized itself by presenting year in year out a very competitive running game as well as a high Time of Possession and a total ground attack focus.

This reached its peak in 2007, where a very competitive offense combined itself with a decent defense to take the Jaguars on the road to New England where the team fell honorably to the best offense in the history of the NFL.

However in 2008 devastating injuries to the team resulted in a 5-11 record when 97% of the fanbase expected the team to reach easlity the playoffs.........

Many people blamed David before the OL, because he was not able to maintain his inhuman Td:Int Ratio.

And we could bring here an analysis involving passing yards, Tds, attempts, rating etc, but that really does not show me anything else than group performance.

That is why I think I can make a case using YAC and 1st Downs achieved.

In 2007 when the team had a dominant OL, a dominant Running game, a decent defense and an underperforming Wr and Te corp the jaguars found a way to put themselves near the top in TOP, 1st downs per game, and actually had the leader in YAC for the AFC south.

And such success is easily attributed to the fact that Garrard used to throw the ball with 8 guys crowding the box, That is why the time that our big receivers needed to gain separation was granted by good protection, and our running game pounded the opposite defenders, resulting in being the 4th team with the most 1st down a game.. with nearly 21 1st downs........ Garrard committed nearly no errors and finished with an inhuman Td:Int ratio and a passer rating of more than 100.

Also the team had the ability to make big plays, making 80 yard its longest rushing play and 60 yards its longest passing play..........

but what happened in 2008??

The team ended with 5-11 far away from leading or being amongst the leaders in Total yardage, Tds, rushing or passing yards, they where also the team with the shortest long play in the NFL, the YAC of our Wr corp where vomitable, the team passed from being one of the least penalyzed to being one of the most penalyzed in the entire NFL, amongs other calamities.

But.......

Te team managed to still be amongst the leaders both in TOP and 1st downs achieved in the league just 1 less than 2007.

So what happened???

To me this shows me that David Garrard was in control of this offense both in 2007 and in 2008,  even without the legs of this offense (who does'nt remember the games where fred or Maurice had less than 10 rush attemps?) the jaguars signal caller was able to mantain the jags amongst the leading teams in TOP and 1st down achieved.

And even though the team had just 1 less 1st down a game in average, the inability to produce any big yardage plays doomed the jaguars offensive hopes. This lack of big yardage plays came from the inability of the OL both to open gaps for the Rbs and the lack of protection for DG....... Then you have the under-achieving defense and then of course the worst WR corp of the NFL (non of the starting Wr of 2008 can or are going to find a place to play in 2009), that is why the YAC reduced so much from 2007 to 2008.

And even with all this DG was able to put us in position to win the game in each and every one of the first 8 games of 2008 where the jaguars had the lead in the 4th Quarter in each game and our Defense was unable to mantain it in all but 7 of those (cause vs the Colts and the Texans we won in final drives)....... All this with a weak Rushing game and most of the times throwing against 4 or 5 men in the secondary..........

I really cant understand when people say he was not living up to his contract when his contract is not as big as bigger under achievers like Carson Palmer or Marc Bulger. Or that he is in the hot seat, when even last year in that fractured offense he ended up delivering..........

If you've seen all the Jaguars games for 3 seasons you (like me) can see that DG owns this offense, that he controls the times, the pase, the ball, the momentum............ That he is the leader in this offense, that the guys will play for him, and that he will play for the guys......... Now with the commitment he has shown with the weight loss and the workout, and having shown he can pass the ball, I'm very confident tha the Offense will be pretty mean next year.......

jaxjags..

PS: Pardon my under-achieving writing skills.....