You think that will sell tickets?

I’ll only add that you can’t really tell anything yet. Let’s remember that we aren’t experts on the 34. It wasn’t that bad for a team playing a game with a 3 man front for the very first time. As far as the receivers, at least they caught the football. Sure they didn’t light the scoreboard up, but they got that first NFL experience under their belt. Brian Williams will not start at CB. I think that’s Derek Cox’s job. He wasn’t there because he’s protecting an injury. Derek Landri got bigger but he can still move. At least we know we have the personnel to run a 34. The thing I appreciate most about this game was that the team at least showed some creativity. Derrick Harvey played both coverage and rush end. At least their mixing it up. Nobody’s perfect for the first preseason game.

Give it some time. If we still look like a hot mess in the 4th preseason game, then we know we’re in trouble.

Im watching the game again right now and it doesnt look too good. Why is Harvey dropping back? Is that why we traded an entire draft for him? I dont like the 3-4. I dont think it will work although Miami does have a strong line so it could be just that. The Gaurds and Meester really need to step it up. Too many guys got through. I thought the tackles looked okay. Its only the first preseason game though so I can be patient. Atleast Troy Williamson showed he can catch a little.

the Jaguars always stink in the preseason, especially in the opener. I’m not hedging my bets the team will play like they played tonight. Terry, I know you’re frustrated and you’re not alone but can we hold the “We’ll have the first pick of the 2010 draft” talk until the end of the third preseason game? Yes, I was really disappointed too but I’m not going to judge a game where Garrard is pulled after a quarter and MJD only plays a series.

as you know, i like JDR

that said, during the in game thread. i wrote goodbye, jack

You do realize that no team looks amazing in their first preseason game. The main thing here was the newbs got to see how fast life is on the field in the NFL and no one got hurt.

If the team plays like this in week 6 then you got a valid point, but in preseason game #1..you sound like a crybaby who WANTS the Jags to leave

but is that something that Gene will do during this season or would he wait until the end? I dont know but we can all agree that it is only the first preseason game so we will see.

Horribly undisciplined football… WAY TO MANY PENALTIES… It wasn’t just rookies, I saw mainly vets causing the yellow to fly… Pashos gave up a hold on one play, then gave up a sack the next… he is way overpaid and obviously hasn’t improved much… at least it didn’t appear that way.

FA Edge James should definitely sign with Jaguars….

Garrard looked hideous, hardly any protection, our ends blow!!!

You are overreacting a little here. You seem to be pointing out all negatives but no positives. There were a couple positives even though it wasn’t a great performance.

Zach Miller was good. Bouman didn’t look as bad as I thought he might. Landri was a beast. Pearman looked solid. Troy Williamson played about as good as he ever has.

Obviously there’s some negatives. It’s a young team playing in a preseason game with rain, on a partially clay field.

I completely agree about the special teams unit under Russ Purnell. I was questioning that one since the beginning, but we have some players on ST and it’ll get better once Montell is in and they develop a little more consistency.

You have the right to not be happy about the play tonight, but I think you’re being a little overly negative with this post. We need to improve and we will as a team. Give it a week or two or three.

Don’t do anything creative on offense (I’d be angry if the Jaguars gave away much of anything from their playbook), don’t play a starting CB because he has a little injury, experiment with a 3-man front to see if it works (it doesn’t), etc.

MJD barely played, and this is the first football played since December. I remember everyone throwing a fit about the lack of good O-line play in the 2007 preseason, and they ended up being a main reason that offense was record-setting. And hey, Troy Williamson showed signs of life!

I would suggest relaxing. Take a deep breath and achieve a state of Zen like your buddy John.

slept our 1st preseason game.
It seems to me i not lost too much. I real everything to see what happened.
I say, it was the 1st game since almost 8 months, so no hurry to judge the guys, that they will play like that all year.
Although there are lot of concerns in almost everywhere-that is obvius The jags have 3 pregames to find the right direction, although they have a LOT of work to do.
But yesterday’s game showed why many consider the jags as the 4th power in the AFC south in this season.

wow a jaguar fan actually being honest. thats why the karma of the colts article is so ridiculous. you have bigger problems than bragging about the colts injuries which by the way isnt really that big.

david garrard IS horrible. but this isnt shocking. when the only positive memory to come out of the game is stevie wonder williamson actually catching a couple of passes from the backup qb against the backup d…I think del rio needs to get his bags packed

the O line. wow they are worse than the colts and this is after all the picks. I dont know but like the author of this story said..unless maurice jones drew can do it all and that includes throwing the ball…he is going to be dead by game 8.

but other teams already knew this. you just cant throw in a bunch of rookies their first year and have one hit wonders..see garrard…automatically revert back to his one hit wonder year, the guy sucks, and players who never played before…it all takes time. when I hear some of the jag fans predicting all this greatness, its fantasy because until you get rid of del rio you will never go anywhere….but LA

garrard looks like a lost puppy. thats your leader. good luck with that

oh and picking up the colts special team coach who the fans begged to fire for years and CLEVELANDS d coach…who actually thought this team would be better. those two coaches alone were run out of town…..only for jax to pick them up. again pack those bags jack. you can home soon. on the other coast

I still cant believe the jags picked up that loser purnell. karma?

Ok, there is something wrong

This is what really counts – scrubs vs scrubs – who cares. OK – to say that this teams has a long, long, long way to go is perhaps understatement of the year – you might say it’s from the “Obvious Guys Network”.

I was very disappointed in the O line and Tony Pathos picked up right where he left off last season. If this is indicative of his performance to come – he will not be the starter at least at RT. The line play on the whole – well, pass protection looked like a Dolphins jail break. The WR counldn’t get open vs the 1’s and David is looking like 08 David and not 07 David. They also got physically whipped again although not as bad as last year, but they had their hats handed to them. The bright spot was (I can’t believe I’m going to say this) Troy Williamson – his catch of the deflected ball was awesome. Not to be a complete tool – but his one catch vs 1’s resulted in a fumble (which he recovered).

The D looks like a smoke and mirror job. They genereated some QB pressure via the blitz early, but once again this D line cannot pressure the QB on its own. Run D was better than I expected, but Tpoka is correct, they looked vulnerable outside.

I know this is the 1st preseason game and I’ll reserve final judgement going into the season when all 4 preseason games are in – but judging off this 1st outing – I’m very disappointed at where this team is right now – wow that was ugly.

PS – there goes another penalty – nice coaching.

u cant threaten to not buy tix if they dont win becuz thats why teams move so frequently u either like going to the games or u dont …its an atmosphere and a chance to go out with friends and family to see a live sporting event … of course u want the jags to win but dont stop going because they have one bad season and a bad pre season game come on they made it to the divisional playoffs in 07 think how happy some fans would be to have that kind of season and excitemnet in january dont always be so ungrateful for what mr. weaver has done for this city and region he is perhaps the best owner in the league..now with that said lets support this team the way they deserve and theyll get rid of JDR if hes not havvin a good year

I actually finished watching the game and saw what I had expected from a rebuilding team. Like they said during the game… there’s like 30 new faces out there. Once the new people started to play, I expected there was going to be some penalty calls… esp from the rookies.

My main concerns after watching the game is:

1) Special Teams – definitly not a fan of Russ Purnell… were the Colts special teams ever any good?

2) Penalties – I expected some from the new guys… but it was a bit much on that one drive, I think like 4 in a row?

What I like about the game was:

1) Recievers – they actually looked good, I liked Nate Hughes the most. There was one play where it looked like he just sucked the ball out of the air. Start of the 1st qtr was a bit sloppy… but it picked up a bit.

2) 3-4 – I actually think the 3-4 brought some good pressure & the Jags used it on prolly half the plays… only thing I’d like is that after they get penetration, they wrap up the tackle. There were like 2-3 missed sacks.

All in all it was enough to still get me excited about this season & believe that they’re doing this for the best of the team. You don’t get to the Playoffs winning in the pre-season… it’s supposed to be live practice against another team & a chance for you to work out the kinks, esp on new schemes like the 3-4… I mean what did you expect from a team who’s been playing the 4-3 for the last 15 yrs? Just ask the Colts if they think winning the pre-season is important…

holy crap, batman.. way too much emotion on both sides… too much negative and too much positive… it’s just a freaking preseason game… take it for what it is

And I thought I was the pessimist here.

courtesy of Kbot – you’ll laugh your butt off :-)!

I don’t think things are as bad as you make out, friend. It’s the 1st preseason game. I’ll admit the Jags looked sloppy, horribly so. But I’m not ready to lay down and die just yet. Uche let defenders into the pocket like an usher at church, and that sucks. Brian Williams is not looking good. He’s not playing safety, he sure as hell is not playing corner…what is he doing? We may be in trouble. Who knows? There’s still time to work out the kinks. It’s the preseason.

We’ve only just begun.

I thought Groves showed some good burst putting pressure on the qb a couple times and stuffing a run in the backfeild. I also thought Knighton looked like a stud in the middle leading to landri looking good aswell.

but they boo them from the seats in the stadium. I remember the Steelers being booed at home in a playoff game. The fans demand good football.

If you own season tickets and are at the game, you can boo and be demanding.

I’ll bet Wayne Weaver would trade polite comments from non-present fans for demanding fans sitting in the stadium anytime.

The receivers played pretty well. I could tell a huge difference in just how they ran routes compared to last year. Monroe will be the starting left tackle. I thought the interior defensive line played well, especially Landri.

There were some negatives. Kick coverage was hideous. Brian Williams was not good. Tony Pashos was really bad. Hopefully Tra Thomas can move to right tackle. Lots of missed tackles particularly in the dolphins backfield.

i hope you are not insinuating that Todd Bouman is a better QB than Garrard because its not even close. Bouman played nearly 2 and half quarters against the dolphins 2nd string defense. Give me a break…

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

What may best suit some is to evaluate every other preseason game, at which point some type of parallel (albeit flawed still) can be defined and then a conclusion can be reached. Please step back from the ledge until after game 3 of the preseason.

the offense will start clicking. That is unless they go with the same lame play calling they did last year. Run, run, short pass, punt. Exciting.

granted it was against the 2’s, but the dude has missed almost all of training camp…when i focused in on him he absolutely stonewalled the pass rush..he’s going to be an absolute beast…i thought britton looked pretty good too

prob not time to panic yet, but i said that last year after the miami preseason game

I’m one of those sad jaguars fans that doesn’t live in the Jacksonville area (I live in New York) and thus cannot get any games on local TV or radio. I’ve suffered through sirius radio for a couple years now, but Sexton gets me way too excited by screaming and going nuts about MJD up the gut for 3 yards. I know people sometimes can watch games streamed online, does anybody know how that works / could help explain it to me? Thanks

Terry, man, I’m feeling you. I know it’s early, but it was not pretty. I’m very frustrated in just the lack of discipline. If it was messy football but we still showed discipline, I’d be better. This team had too many penalties. False start after false start. I’m more frustrated at Tony Pashos than I was Khalif Barnes. Why does Pashos even have a contract much less playing with the first string? He gets burned time and time again, and then he makes up for it by holding. He’s horrible. Let Surteal play RT, because anything is better than Pashos. If Britton isn’t starting on day one, I’m quitting on Del Rio.

Speaking of Del Rio, if he doesn’t have the team just doing snap counts for 2 hours today, then something is wrong with the coaching. Discipline should come first. Even a highschool football team doesn’t false start 5 million times consecutively.

I’ve been on the Del Rio bus until last night. The coaching inadequacies are clear and apparent. The discipline is something to be desired.

Garrard played like shit. Simply put. He didn’t show me he was comfortable, he didn’t get good protection, and he didn’t throw worth a shit either. What’s with the whole falling down shovel pass to the defender thing?

We need to get our rookies involved more than ever. Get Monroe and Britton in there. Send Pashos to the CFL, cuz man I can’t stand that guy. Jennings didn’t show me much of anything, but maybe it was because our line wasn’t making any holes to run through. How is every run the Dolphins had going for 10 to 12 yards? With all of the negative however, I gotta say our receivers looked pretty good.

I’m not going to say they looked great, because it wasn’t against Miami’s first team defense, but I was thrilled with Williamson’s play. Dillard and Hughes played very well, and Underwood could’ve had some nice catches if the ball had been thrown with more accuracy. I’m ready to see what the two Mikes can do.

Knighton looks like a pretty big dude. Btw, I’m going from one subject to another, sorry, but our secondary still looks like ass. I like the schemes we experimented with on defense though.

We’ll get better, but Garrard better get his butt in gear, because Bouman played much better than him last night. No excuse. Get it done. You got paid, now show your worth.

I was happy to see my man Wilford get some love on the Dolphins last night.

I’m so frustrated that I can’t put my thoughts into logical sense right now. My venting is done… Btw, I know the game was broadcast over the Dolphines network, but those guys were idiots. How is it 3rd and 4 when your on the 4 yard line? Maybe 3rd and goal with 4 yards to go for the touchdown. The Dolphin love made me sick to my stomach. I hate listening to clearly biased commentary. But, I must digress and say at least I got to see the game.

Blair out.

we could be the Vikings! Being held hostage by a washed up QB who is way passed his prime.

You’re overreacting.

I suppose that the Dolphins will go 0-16 also since they played at an equivalent level to the Jags. We could have kicked a field goal to tie in regulation if that would ease your Video game mentality. To the permanently infantile population that occupies the football blogosphere instant gratification is a birthright . I was in the stands at last years Miami preseason game and we were less physical than the Roar. We got ass kicked ,period. This team is definitly better on D. When Cox takes over for weak link Williams we’ll win at least 7-9 games , and yes mostly low scoring affairs. By the way, Del Rio is no Tom Coughlin but the real problem, the pathetic Shack Harris is gone.

I still think we played like shit. Just saying.

It’s poor disipline