Change and the Jaguars: Is the spread-offense the future?

your dream doesnt come true, because i def. agree that would be a nightmare

for us he represents thee worser aspects of football and a bad version of the future. I would say FB is a dead position because you don’t see any Francos, or Alstotts anymore.

Basically he’s all about himself and could give a damn about the league or anyone else.

I think the future can still have a power running game, and really tough defense but in my opinion all that run 1st stuff is just setting yourself up for an eventual failure. I’m a guy who likes a balanced attack. I remember CBS showed a stat that said 26 running plays/26 passing plays. I love that style. It makes you unpredictable and gives defenses fits.

I do not think the spread option and all that other crap has a future. The closest I ever saw where the Vick falcons and that was only because Vick is truly one of the greatest talents (athletically speaking) to play the game. A QB who can outrun running backs is a nightmare. Tebow and the like are nothing like Vick, and won’t have nearly as much success because they don’t have the athletic gifts that Vick has.

Dead fish! Either side has an argument as valid as yours. Run or pass. It doesn’t matter. Effectiveness until the clock hits zero still marks the measure of victory. And Jerry Jones will be dead soon. So, generalizations and skeletons do not equate to the future of football in my world. Fluctuations will always occur, and the future is anyone’s guess.

I say to hell with what’s to come and let’s live in the now. Have you washed your Jags’ jersey for this weekend? Are your mugs clean? Have you purchased a fresh bag of charcoal?

These are questions that amateurs like us can truly answer with accurate affirmation. Otherwise, drink from a poisonous glass like the one just offered to you by the article above. Future telling is for gypsies. Not for Jaguars’ fans.

Go Jags. Go fans. Have a blast this weekend. We might take this son of a bitch to 2 and 2. That’s enough to fire up my grill. Jerry Jones? Well, maybe I’ll dress like him for Halloween.

…a future to fear.

If you were, I thought you might get a kick out of it.

But teams like the patriots and the COlts regularly succeed, even though they’re a bunch of pansies… I don’t even know how there fans can enjoy watching their teams wimp out for 60 minutes, and still win because they can throw the ball like madmen…

It’s sickening to watch, and I hope the defense always stays hard-nosed in Jacksonville, and I hope we always run the ball first… run, run, run….

BTW… I love the way Marty Schottenheimer plays the game… the guys is brilliant. He never calls the same play twice over a four game period, even his run plays differ. That’s one of the reasons he was always so effective. Teams couldn’t gameplan against them well because Marty had a bastion of 500-600 plays to choose from.

Coaching is, and always will be, a major part of any team’s effectiveness.

That being said, I hope we don’t see the spread take hold any time soon in the NFL

I know a lot of people don’t like the Gators around here but regardless of your feelings for them I think they are a fun team to watch as long as you have the sound on mute so you don’t have to listen to them talk about Tim Tebow’s “Passion” for 3 hours.

I like how Florida uses the spread to open the run game. They are a run first team but in a different way. I love the power I too but watching that triple option with Tebow, Demps, and Hernandez is a thing of beauty I wouldn’t mind seeing in Jacksonville.

….Jerry Jones is an evil, selfish, megalomaniacal douchebag who is harmful to the game of football. If he had it his way, the NFL would be a two team league with the Cowboys in the position of the Harlem Globetrotters and the other team as the Washington Generals. The sooner he’s caught by the SEC or whatever in some shady financial dealing and dragged off to white collar prison, the better.

Whew. Just had to get that out of my system.

I do expect to see the rise of more spread-option like attacks as an outgrowth of the Wildcat. Especially as quarterbacks like Tebow come into the league and some team eventually trades for Michael Vick and makes him their starter.

But remember: We’ve basically already seen the spread in the NFL in recent memory….perhaps you remember the run-and-shoot in the early and mid 90’s? Defensive co-ordinators figured that out pretty quick.

Oh and just let me say: I know your team is going through a rough patch right now. But listen to me: I’m a Raiders fan. It can get SO MUCH WORSE. Believe me when I say I know what I’m talking about.

Sadly, I do feel this will happen, but eventually the I-Form and the short gain will return probably within 3 or 4 years. the spread works in the NFL, because running it with NFL quality offense versus a base 4-3 will for the while end up like UF-Vanderbilt, but defenses will respond, and that’s why already the Single WIng is morphing to a QB-centric offense, so you can throw and run out of it, but i do think maybe even the pocket passer will fade for a while, and you might see QB rushing records fall again, like the original Vick and Kordell Stewart way back. Though I say, the FB isn’t dying but is becoming the HB and the RB will become the TB, like NCAA, where all the backs really do everything in the backfield, and can line up wide. Call me crazy, but i say we see Mike Thomas and Maurice Drew lining up in the Backfield together like this
     QB
WR>RB
and i think WIlford is the next form of TE, like Dallas CLark in IND, because neither are paticularly good blockers but have excellent hands and as Del Rio said, aren’t point-of-attack. I say the OT postition becomes even more athletic and they start blocking in space for real, like splitting off the line and then crushing in
OT———OG>CC>OG——-OT
or something like that, but i hold out hope that the era of the Big Back isn’t dead yet, their just a few inches shorter. Give me Jim Brown and Paul Hornung over Darren Sproles and Chris Johnson

i like old school football. make is simple stupid is my slogan. even on madden…. anyone playing me better relax and get comfortable, i dont even CALL the play until it’s like 15 seconds left on the play clock. i like to manage the game, i love time of possession. make it easy on your defense. last week, i thought our offense kept scoring which is cool, but eat more time off the clock so the defense can rest! if you score in like 3 minutes, that’s no different than turning the ball over. having the ball for over 6 minutes in a drive is a good amt. of time IMO.

if you have a slow offense with mediocre NFL receivers and a limited offensive line, why go early 90s run and shoot? I don’t think the Jaguars can go spread offense, simply because the receivers aren’t good enough, the line can’t pass block for the length of time necessary for the quarterback to throw, and you’d be wasting one of the best young running backs in the game.
btw the fullback died with Lorenzo Neal. That man should be in the HOF.

but i rather have a like a 12-9 Slugfest than a 45-42 game. Close scores for me usually mean better games.

may that monday night memory remain with all of us so that we can be vic and talk about the good ole days with our grandkids as they tell us that sounds boring and wonder why we watched football before we could make money off of fantasy

I love Lombardi and Coughlin. I grew up loving the Steelers (long story) and Lions (dad’s team) so brusing players were a cornerstone. I’ve always felt it is more dominating to grind a team down than to simply outscore them. In Pop Warner we just run the fastest kid to the outside and let him score (C.J. anyone?).

Ironically, even with the spread in Gainesville, they’re still pounding the ball with Tebow.

what a moronic statement

But teams like the patriots and the COlts regularly succeed, even though they’re a bunch of pansies… I don’t even know how there fans can enjoy watching their teams wimp out for 60 minutes, and still win because they can throw the ball like madmen…

It’s sickening to watch, and I hope the defense always stays hard-nosed in Jacksonville, and I hope we always run the ball first… run, run, run….

hate to tell you but the colts offense is a pro style offense and OH HOW THE COLTS FANS HATE seeing them WIN 12 games+ 7 straight years…..JUST CANT STAND IT….make us be like the jags and nobody goes to their games because they cant stand watching their no wide recievers, terrible qb team with the dump pass offense. my god talk about wimpy! oh please let my team be like them so I cant see the games due to blackouts.

you do realize fans LIKE WINNING and FANS LIKE THEIR TEAM SCORING ALOT OF POINTS with an MVP and all pro qb with great recievers DONT YOU??

Im pretty sure YOUR FELLOW jaguar fans would love to see the jags SCORE A CRAP LOAD OF POINTS and know that you are never out of game. and Im pretty sure your fellow jag fans think what you said about fans NOT enjoying scoring alot of points. wimp out? wimp out???? yeah tell yourself that line of crap you are telling your fellow fans

and your run defense aint that good…hellllooooooooooo

oh and the wildcat…get serious. look at the dolphins. they are winless. this offense if a fad and will be gone in a couple of years. the superbowl winners have pro style qbs and if you want to BE LIKE THE dolphins than YOU BE happy with that offense

tim tebow …how that he got nailed…is how he will get nailed in the nfl on almost every play. I wouldnt even be surprised after that concussion and probably now many more to follow he never plays a down in the nfl.

is a terrible human being. Charging hard working fans money to stand outside the stadium and watch game on tv screens so he can set a bogus attendance record. Hope cowboy games are blacked out soon when they can’t fill up that stupid ass stadium.