A Retrospective: How much did the Jacksonville Jaguars 2007 season hurt?

normally, I would say things start at the top, but in this case I would say the glaring lack of talent is responsible for this team’s poor performance.

and yes I said to you, not, as you put it “to most fans”, I find the fact that you were given the reins to this great blog is to me……and most of its followers. This article was predictable before anyone ever read it. Nearly everything that is wrong with this team in your opinion is the fault of Garrard and Del Rio. I think you over state your opinion as being that of the majority of Jaguar fans…but I am just a fan and follower of this blog, nothing more and nothing less.
Is it possible that, through the efforts of Garrard, Del Rio, and certain other other members of this team / coaching staff, the Jaguars have over achieved despite a lack of talent brought on by years of poor drafting? I am sure your answer will be “NO!!!!!!!!”. I guess we will never know the truth. This is nothing personal, just my opinion.

I believe we owe Garrard nothing in guaranteed dollars. Pretty sure if we had (or acquire) a better option he would have been (or will be) cut.

But you completely overlooked the seismic collapse of the offensive line in the 2008 offseason and opener. If we had a consistent o line, who knows how 2008 would have gone?

We lost Manuwai and Mo Williams in the opener, Mo in warmups. Collier, no idea if he was going to make the squad. Lost Naeole to IR as well. Here were our o linemen on the roster at the end of the 2008 season:

72 Jordan Black T
63 Brad Meester C
61 Drew Miller C/G
62 Dennis Norman G/C
77 Uche Nwaneri G
79 Tony Pashos T
75 Stefan Rodgers T
70 Cameron Stephenson G

You tell me you’d feel comfortable going into battle with that motley crew? Dennis Norman are you freaking kidding me???

Can’t believe you neglected to mention this. Almost smacks of an agenda.

Failed to convince me on pretty much any of your points here. I don’t believe Del Rio or Garrard are negatives, and it only took us 1 year and some cash to scrap all the free agent junk we did in that offseason.

The fact of the matter is that a team like ours, in the smallest market, with fewer revenue streams, MUST NOT waste our money. Now, hindsight is 20/20, but wasting that money on 2 awful players hurts the organization. We simply cannot shrug off big money losses like Dallas, NYJ, NYG, et al… Its our cross to bear that we must use our scant financial resources wisely.

Well, you all figured me out. This was just a coy way of me writing about my David Garrard agenda.

I wish I could just muster up the courage to write about David Garrard instead of trying to slyly write an article to make it look like a criticism of a single off-season philosophy following a season where they got close and swung for the fence, and just wrote my true feelings. That everything is 100%.

I can’t slip anything through you guys.

that just has the words “David Garrard” and a picture.

Nothing else and see what happens.

for David’s birthday!!!

The main point of this article is that the Jaguars overrated the talent level of their roster heading into the 2008 season. Was Garrard’s outstanding 2007 the reason? Perhaps. Was the defense’s solid performance the reason? Perhaps. Was it something completely different? Perhaps. All I know is that hindsight being 20/20, the offseason following the 2007 season was a disaster. Someone said signing Porter and Florence didn’t hurt the team. SERIOUSLY??? Not only did they disrupt the team chemistry and royally suck, but they cost an enormous amount of money. How many other players could the Jaguars have signed with the same money that could have helped the team more than those two free agent busts? Quite a few. I see people saying that Alfie is pinning this all on Garrard…reading comprehension fail. Try again. The collapse after 2007 was based on a multitude of factors, all of which he touched on in his article.

This mess just went .com boards on us. Reel it in, gentlemen.

hes a good QB, but he works with a limited passing offense, when something doesn’t go right, everybody is quick to blame somebody, without looking deeper into the sitatuion, and unfortunately, Garrard is always blamed.

Your “Should Garrard be replaced” poll is a complete fraud.
By whom are you saying he should be replaced? Bouman, Edwards, McCown? An as yet undrafted QB? Peyton Manning? Tom Brady?
Of course MOST people are going to say yes to this poll, because you have a variable as his replacement. Whoever votes Yes can see a great QB in his place, not a potential Ryan Leaf.
For the umpteenth time: I also want him replaced…IF WE GET A BETTER OPTION.

He is putting up a poll to ask if fans want the QB replaced – without regard to by whom, or when said replacement takes place. Really? Let’s put up another poll every day for the next 53 days and and see if the fans want to replace each player – at some point in time, and by someone.

You see, the problem with the Rec/Flag system is that whenever I click on actions, I am redirected to the top of the screen. I then have to scroll down through all of the posts again to find the one that I wanted to Rec. This is not a problem in threads with fewer replies. However, in one such as this one with great length(no jokes) it’s kind of a pain in the ass. Anything we can do about this?

The New England Patriots signed Drew Bledsoe to a then-record 10-year, $103m contract… in March 2001.

Bledsoe was hurt early on in the season, Tom Brady took over, and the rest is history.

 by April 2002 he was traded to Buffalo, having only played one of his ten contracted years for the Patriots (and having done so mostly on the bench).

If the organisation thinks Garrard isn’t the way to go, they can get rid of him and move in another direction, and all they’ll eat is the signing bonus (to an extent).