The Jacksonville Jaguars

[duvaldude08]

 

I don't think that there's any QB coming out that has the same feel as Luck.  And let's not forget that amount that the Redskins gave up to get the other "can't miss" guy in the draft....  How's that working for them right now?

Not to mention, They traded up to get RG3 AND draft Kirk Cousins also. They wasted a ton of drafts picks for QB's and its not paying dividends.

Y'all are awfully quick to write off RG3, especially coming off a pretty serious knee injury.  And calling Cousins a wasted pick is crazy.  He's a good looking young QB who, at a minimum, will be traded for good value.

No one's writing him off, but they gambled to get two QB's and there are other area's of them team that are a complete diaster. Like their defense. Cant get to the playoffs if your defense cant stop a nose bleed, regardless of whos under center.

[mtraininjax]

RGIII looked like Gabbert at times against the niners tonight in the 1st half. All out blitzes, which Minnesota and Philly used, seem to make him rush the ball. They showed a stat that he has 22 fumbles this year. Had the Skins not used so many resources to get him, if he were in his last year of his contract, would he still be a skin the next year?

After watching him take off run, and get creamed by the niner D, I am not sure the NFL is a league where you want your QB running around acting like a Full Back, the position is too important. Say what you want about Glennon and Tampa Bay, but the kid is actually turning around the team. I would look for the Jags to go with a safer longer term QB in a Glennon type pick rather than the fun and gun of RG3.

[duvaldude08]

Was just going throught the archive of the power rankings and decided to go back to 2002. Seems like everyone knew Coughlin was on his way out. But stood out to me is that after a loss to the texans, a fan spit on coughlin? Does anyone remember that?

Jacksonville Jaguars Power Rankings - :
WEEK RECORD RANK COMMENT
Week 18 6-10 26 If the Jags want to separate GM and coach, Dennis Green might not be the best fit.

Week 17 6-9 26 Sounds like the end for Tom Coughlin in Jacksonville is near.

Week 16 6-8 22 In a tough year for the Jags, Mark Brunell has been pretty good. He's No. 7 in the AFC in passer rating and has 17 TDs to just six INTs.

Week 15 5-8 22 Tom Coughlin has to be sitting on one of the hotter seats in the NFL right now.

Week 14 5-7 22 Last two games (vs. Tenn. and at Indy) -- at least Jags can try to play the spoiler.

Week 13 5-6 23 Fred Taylor fumbles on the one-yard line. Maybe Taylor is afraid of the end zone and that's why the Jags always give the ball to Stacey Mack on the goal line.

Week 12 5-5 20 Anybody who has Fred Taylor in a fantasy league cringes every time Stacey Mack runs in a one-yard TD.

Week 11 4-5 22 He won't say it, but it had to be especially sweet for Tom Coughlin to beat Steve Spurrier.

Week 10 3-5 24 Steve Spurrier's trip to Jacksonville should make for an interesting atmosphere this weekend when the Jags host the Redskins.

Week 9 3-4 23 Losing to the Texans is bad, but no coach deserves to be spit on by the home fans. That's just nasty.

Week 8 3-3 18 At 3-3, the Jags are still in the playoff race in a weak division. But they have to win games when Fred Taylor rushes for 158 yards.

Week 7 3-2 15 Without a healthy Mark Brunell, the Jaguars are not a playoff team.

Week 6 3-1 12 Time to stop saying the Jags could be good if ... and just say that they're a legitimate playoff contender.

Week 5 2-1 15 The Jags are looking more and more like a serious playoff contender.

Week 4 1-1 20 Fred Taylor will be licking his chops when he gets a look at film of the Jets run defense

Week 3 1-1 22 With Mark Brunell, Jimmy Smith and Fred Taylor all playing at full speed, this is a team no one wants to play.

Week 2 0-1 24 As long as they're healthy, the Jags will be no walkovers this year. They played Indy tough and certainly could have won.

Week 1 6-10 29 A healthy Fred Taylor could make them dangerous. But come on, who thinks Taylor will stay healthy?

Preseason 0-0 26 Optimistic: Brunell, Taylor and Smith make for some great talent on offense.
Pessimistic: Counting on Taylor to be healthy isn't very wise.

[duvaldude08]

Published Monday, October 28, 2002


Coughlin just spitting mad over team



By The Times-Union
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And then, the spit hit the fan.

Or, to be accurate, the spit, which came from the mouth of the fan, hit the head coach.

Tom Coughlin shook hands with Dom Capers at midfield, then trudged toward the tunnel.

For the record, the sky above Alltel Stadium was cloudy, but it was not raining. The moisture that Coughlin felt was one fan's way of expressing an opinion about a 21-19 loss to the Houston Texans -- an expansion team that in three previous road games had been outscored by an average of 19 points.

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"That was pathetic!" the fan yelled.

When Coughlin got to the locker room, he was fuming. And the incident apparently was fairly low on his list -- behind stupid penalties, blown special teams plays, a struggling offense, short kickoffs and, yes, two more missed field goals -- because when he told his players about the spitter, he seemed to agree at least with the sentiment.

"It was pathetic," he said. "It should have been a win."

It's three losses in a row, an 0-3 record in the AFC (Going) South Division and a sense that, on the day when the rest of us turned our clocks back an hour, the Jaguars turned theirs all the way back to 2001, to a season that began with a fast start and deteriorated in a hurry after a Mark Brunell concussion.

This was homecoming at Alltel Stadium, in more ways than one.

This was the game that former assistants, Capers and Chris Palmer, brought back so many players that a banner hanging in one corner of Alltel Stadium said: "All our ex's play in Texas."

It also was homecoming because this was the closest thing an NFL team will ever get to a Northeast Louisiana A&M -- a visit by a seven-game old expansion team.

This wasn't a must-win game. It was a must-not-lose game.

And somehow the Jaguars did.

What went wrong? Where do you start?

Maybe in the beginning, with the Jaguars racking up 25 yards in the first quarter. Maybe in the middle, with Brunell struggling to connect with his receivers. Maybe at the end, with the latest special teams fiasco, one that had a homecoming twist -- Jacksonville native Jabar Gaffney burning his hometown team with a trick play on a punt return, setting the stage for a game-winning, 45-yard field goal.

You remember those. Or perhaps you don't.

An hour before the game, Tim Seder, signed to replace Hayden Epstein, took some practice kicks, moving farther away -- 40, 43 and finally, 48 yards -- and putting each through the uprights.

Then came the game. Seder missed from 50 and 35 yards, before making a 34-yarder in the third quarter to give the Jaguars a 12-10 lead. At that point, it appeared that maybe the Jaguars would avoid a homecoming loss. When they didn't, there was plenty of blame to go around -- starting at the top.

When asked how frustrated he is, Coughlin replied: "As frustrated as I have ever been in my life. I don't even know if that's the right word."

How about, to borrow a word from Bobby Bowden's dictionary, bumfuzzled?

Whatever you call it, there's a lot of it going around North Florida. From Tallahassee to Gainesville to Jacksonville, there is disappointment in the air. And yesterday, as this once-promising Jaguars season hit a new low on the field and in the stands, there was even more than that.

Great expectations turned into late expectorations

[Wacca Pilatka]

I remember the spitting incident.

But it recalls another era I try to forget: the two-year Era Of Bad Placekicking in Jacksonville, a stay in the wilderness between our epochs of being spoiled with Hollis and Scobee.

[NotNow]

RGIII looked like Gabbert at times against the niners tonight in the 1st half. All out blitzes, which Minnesota and Philly used, seem to make him rush the ball. They showed a stat that he has 22 fumbles this year. Had the Skins not used so many resources to get him, if he were in his last year of his contract, would he still be a skin the next year?

After watching him take off run, and get creamed by the niner D, I am not sure the NFL is a league where you want your QB running around acting like a Full Back, the position is too important. Say what you want about Glennon and Tampa Bay, but the kid is actually turning around the team. I would look for the Jags to go with a safer longer term QB in a Glennon type pick rather than the fun and gun of RG3.

RGIII has proven himself.  He's in a sophmore slump, but I wouldn't bet against him.  I would take Cousins today if we could get him.

[civil42806]

RGIII should not have played early in this year, with the knee injury he incurred should have set at least half the year out. 

[I-10east]

Next year, the Jags will play Jerrah & the Cowboys on November 9 in Wembley Stadium.

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[Keith-N-Jax]

I plan to be there for that one as well. Will be interesting to see what the team and new QB will look like.

[Westside Guy]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000289334/article/san-diego-chargers-vs-cincinnati-bengals-blacked-out

The worst part is that this is the only article I have found on this, but if it were the Jaguars being blacked out, it would be much more publicized.

[duvaldude08]

I plan to be there for that one as well. Will be interesting to see what the team and new QB will look like.

The offense should be interesting next season because 90% of those guys are going to be gone once the re-tool the offense. The only ones that are definate to stick around is Shorts, Blackmon (give he doesnt get his third strike), Ace, Robinson, the fullback (whatever the hell is name), Joeckel, and Cameron (he's an excellent back up and swing guy.) Everyone else is a toss up. I think we will keep Henne as a back up though. Hes one of the best back ups in the league. I dont trust him to play a full game (he always making mistakes around the 3 Q), but he could definately get us through at least half the game if our rookie QB got knocked out of the game for whatever reason.

[I-10east]

I think we will keep Henne as a back up though. Hes one of the best back ups in the league. I dont trust him to play a full game (he always making mistakes around the 3 Q), but he could definately get us through at least half the game if our rookie QB got knocked out of the game for whatever reason.

I heard some talk over the radio (The Bold City Football Show) talking about a scenario of not getting an ideal rookie QB, and getting a non-QB like Clowney in the first round, and toughing it out with Henne at starting QB for another season; I wouldn't like that at all, it would drive me crazy! Like you said, I don't trust him to be consistent throughout an entire game. I'm cool with him being a backup in 2014. 

[ben says]

What's Gabbert's status? Officially never starting again

[Keith-N-Jax]

I wouldn't take to much stock in radio talk or any other talk for that matter. No one really knows what Caldwell will do. Team has lots of holes to fill 'this' we know.

[JayBird]

Today is the 20th Anniversary of the Jacksonville Jaguars ... I am ashamed to admit this as a season ticket holder, but what exactly was that? Granted team status? First game? Team formation?

Also, might be nice if MJ could do a 20 years of Jaguars, maybe how they've affected the city.