The Jacksonville Jaguars

[I-10east]

 

[Keith-N-Jax]

Impressive WIN, did WATT do anything besides run out there with the Flag? It's much easier to win games when your QB is not scoring points for the other team. I can relax now and watch football for the rest of the day with a smile on my face. Go Jags!!!

[Jim]

Impressive WIN, did WATT do anything besides run out there with the Flag? It's much easier to win games when your QB is not scoring points for the other team. I can relax now and watch football for the rest of the day with a smile on my face. Go Jags!!!

Watt had a single tackle the whole game.

[I-10east]

One of the most noticeable things about the game was the Jags discipline (Marrone/Coughlin) in a sense of acting like they won before. They wasn't all extra animated like they just won the Super Bowl, they were composed like Ws will be routine; I love it! Even their penalties (some questionable calls by the refs) were effort plays (like the broadcast said) and not boneheaded errors. Even after the win, their mentality was like 'on to the Titans'. This is a scary team not many are wanna going to tangle with. #DTWD

[Wacca Pilatka]

Bennie Fowler with two TDs against the Chargers last night.  Chances are if a guy named Fowler is involved, Gus Bradley will have no way to control him.

[RattlerGator]

Blake Bortles is telling a WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE to kiss his ass, and well he should. I kept trying to tell people those last two games truly mattered last season. This is now three games, the entirety of Marrone's tenure as head coach, where Blake has not thrown an interception. That's, mind you, two blowout wins over divisional opponents (Tennessee and Houston) and one close loss on the road (Houston).

I don't care who you are, that's impressive.

Sad news about A-Rob. We signed Max McCaffrey today, and that looks like a good move to me:

http://www.jaguars.com/news/article-JaguarsNews/Jaguars-sign-wide-receiver-Max-McCaffrey-to-active-roster/86b35951-f912-46b9-9104-15974ea0a8bc

This home game against the Titans is one of the biggest in franchise history. Seriously. Two games up in the win-loss column against what is probably our best challenger for Division Title, and two wins within the Division in our first two games. Going to London with that record would be huge, huge, huge.

[BridgeTroll]

Max should be good. 1 year on Green Bay practice squad... almost made team this year... just not enough roster spots... good special teamer too.

[MusicMan]

Interesting read here:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/the-nfl-is-seriously-concerned-with-empty-stadiums/ar-AArTqkb?li=BBnb7Kz


Moving the Jags was probably not a great idea after all.......................

[FlaBoy]

Interesting read here:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/the-nfl-is-seriously-concerned-with-empty-stadiums/ar-AArTqkb?li=BBnb7Kz


Moving the Jags was probably not a great idea after all.......................

LA is a bandwagon town. Always has been. The Rams were also really bad last year. The 49ers were awful last season. You can't expect people to pay for trash product. Finally, the money is all in TV deals. I do think the Chargers have a potential problem if they don't get off to a good start in LA because what differentiates them from the Rams? It is not locale like the Angels and Dodgers or even like the Jets and Giants when one played in Queens and the other in Yankee Stadium.

[Tacachale]

The jury's still out on the Rams, I think, due to the stadium. The numbers they claimed (60,000) are not good for a home opener, but not alarmingly bad, especially considering they're playing in a college stadium that's nowhere close to what NFL fans are now used to, and the team is terrible.

Obviously, it's really bad news for the Chargers that they can't even come close to filling a 27,000 stadium.

I don't really understand the criticism of the 49ers attendance. They had a reported 70,178 tickets sold to that game even though the team is terrible. Even if half the stadium left at halftime, they still bought their tickets, which is what matters. They also didn't leave the market.

However, the NFL needs LA to do a lot better than it's doing, as the relocation threat is the thing that keeps cities building billion dollar stadiums. It's obvious now that the Chargers to LA was a terrible move and the Rams may have been too.

[I-10east]

Interesting read here:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/the-nfl-is-seriously-concerned-with-empty-stadiums/ar-AArTqkb?li=BBnb7Kz


Moving the Jags was probably not a great idea after all.......................

What does that left coast crap in the link have to do with the Jags? The Jags organization is on a big upswing (constant new amenities every year, won first game, improved roster etc). 

[KenFSU]

^The 49ers, Rams, and Chargers better be careful, or else they'll all be moved to Los Angeles.

In all seriousness, this is what happens when you ignore the basic laws of supply and demand. Nobody, except the greedy NFL owners club, wanted the Chargers in Los Angeles. This isn't an exaggeration. The LA Time's most respected sports columnist even wrote a column called "Message to Chargers: We Don'T Wan't You in Los Angeles." Not only was there no buzz in LA about the chargers, but there was anti-buzz.

So what does Dean Spanos do?

In an effort to make the same revenue in a 30,000 seat soccer stadium that he would in a 65,000 seat NFL stadium, he announces the highest average ticket prices in NFL history for the team.

Shocker, no one bit.

You see the same thing with the Rams, who price tickets for a 100,000-seat run-down stadium the same way you'd expect them to price tickets for a newer, smaller venue where tickets demanded outweighed tickets available.

Ditto the 49ers, who moved all the way out to Santa Clara, built a billion-dollar stadium that nobody really asked for where 75% of the seats are miserable to sit in due to the orientation of the sun, and then raised ticket prices.

It's hilarious, and infuriating, and sad that the NFL was built and prospered off the backs of the blue collar working class, subsequently priced them out of watching anywhere other than television, instituted a blackout policy in response, continued to raise prices, subsequently priced the middle class out of watching anywhere other than on television, and is now acting surprised that there are empty seats in their stadiums.

All the while, competition for discretionary income has skyrocketed to the point that going to one three-hour NFL game is more expensive than a year of Netflix.

I blame no one but the NFL.

[RattlerGator]

In fairness to the 49er fans, that picture of the beginning of the 2nd half is something of a FAKE NEWS photo. It was 97 degrees that day, and those folks aren't used to that. Average high for that area is 80 degrees this time of year. Many of those empty seats were actually filled but the fans were doing the halftime food, bathroom, socialize thing.

L.A. is another story, but they clearly will demand stadiums with modern amenities or just say the hell with it. When that incredible new stadium gets built, things will change. Especially if both teams are somewhat competitive.

[FlaBoy]

^The 49ers, Rams, and Chargers better be careful, or else they'll all be moved to Los Angeles.

In all seriousness, this is what happens when you ignore the basic laws of supply and demand. Nobody, except the greedy NFL owners club, wanted the Chargers in Los Angeles. This isn't an exaggeration. The LA Time's most respected sports columnist even wrote a column called "Message to Chargers: We Don'T Wan't You in Los Angeles." Not only was there no buzz in LA about the chargers, but there was anti-buzz.

So what does Dean Spanos do?

In an effort to make the same revenue in a 30,000 seat soccer stadium that he would in a 65,000 seat NFL stadium, he announces the highest average ticket prices in NFL history for the team.

Shocker, no one bit.

You see the same thing with the Rams, who price tickets for a 100,000-seat run-down stadium the same way you'd expect them to price tickets for a newer, smaller venue where tickets demanded outweighed tickets available.

Ditto the 49ers, who moved all the way out to Santa Clara, built a billion-dollar stadium that nobody really asked for where 75% of the seats are miserable to sit in due to the orientation of the sun, and then raised ticket prices.

It's hilarious, and infuriating, and sad that the NFL was built and prospered off the backs of the blue collar working class, subsequently priced them out of watching anywhere other than television, instituted a blackout policy in response, continued to raise prices, subsequently priced the middle class out of watching anywhere other than on television, and is now acting surprised that there are empty seats in their stadiums.

All the while, competition for discretionary income has skyrocketed to the point that going to one three-hour NFL game is more expensive than a year of Netflix.

I blame no one but the NFL.

If the 49ers were decent, the stadium would be sold out. Likewise, the weather there is beautiful next week and moving forward which will help. I mean, the 49ers were so awful last year, why would you show up? Santa Clara and Silicon Valley is where most of the corporate money in the region is now so it made sense. Plus, Santa Clara gave them the land and paid for a significant portion of the stadium when San Francisco is broke and still paying for the Giants ballpark.

The Chargers are the one who may have made a bonehead move. Even the NFL didn't want it to happen. But, they could always move back to San Diego if they will ever build them a stadium or head down to Mexico City when the NFL is ready for that. Stan the Man would let them out of their lease in a second if he could control the LA market.

[JaxAvondale]

L.A. is another story, but they clearly will demand stadiums with modern amenities or just say the hell with it. When that incredible new stadium gets built, things will change. Especially if both teams are somewhat competitive.

LA will absolutely be in demand once the stadium is completed. It will become a destination and people will want to be there.