2012 NFL Draft

[duvaldude08]

Man we can't get a break. We are working out a kicker name "Long Ding". How about just work out the Scobee contract and stop wasting time.

Long Ding and Youbooty on one team. Thats a bunch of Mularkey! 

[BridgeTroll]

Man we can't get a break. We are working out a kicker name "Long Ding". How about just work out the Scobee contract and stop wasting time.

Long Ding and Youbooty on one team. Thats a bunch of Mularkey! 

[copperfiend]

Man we can't get a break. We are working out a kicker name "Long Ding". How about just work out the Scobee contract and stop wasting time.

It's a tryout and he's not even under contract. Not a big deal. And look at every other team this August. They will all have two kickers.

[blizz01]

Wow - this dude from SI already has Jacksonville selecting QB Tyler Wilson with the first pick in the 2013 NFL draft.....

http://www.cnnsi.com/2012/writers/andrew_perloff/05/01/2013.nfl.mock.draft/index.html

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Wow - this dude from SI already has Jacksonville selecting QB Tyler Wilson with the first pick in the 2013 NFL draft.....

http://www.cnnsi.com/2012/writers/andrew_perloff/05/01/2013.nfl.mock.draft/index.html

Dude, you've got to stay away from national writers - they are too afraid to go against the grain of their peers.  SI, ESPN, NFLN, Yahoo Sports, etc - it's the same thing regurgitated over and over. 

I'm going to help you out and give you a link to (at least in my opinion) one of the best independent sites that puts together draft info, FA info and such.  From what I've read here for the past 2 years, I've pretty much agreed with - and it's not that it's pro-Jags, it's just move even keeled.

http://walterfootball.com/

An excerpt about the Jags premature 2013 draft they have the Jags with the 8th selection:

I don't know if finishing with the eighth-worst record in the NFL will be enough to fire Gene Smith. If it's not, he'll stubbornly stick with Blaine Gabbert for one more season.

Smith could address the cornerback position next April. Derek Cox, Rashean Mathis, William Middleton and Ashton Youboty are ALL set to hit free agency in March 2013. If so, Tyrann Mathieu seems like the sort of highly productive collegiate player Smith would draft.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with Mathieu. He's so talented, but very undersized (5-9). I suspect he'll go somewhere in the 11-20 range if he has a strong 2012 campaign (though higher here because of Smith). He'll definitely be chosen in the first round though; Brandon Flowers is also 5-9, and he's one of the top cornerbacks in the league, so Mathieu's height isn't a huge deal.

[copperfiend]

That same guy from SI (Andrew Perloff) wrote last year that the team regrets passing on Tebow because all of our games are blacked out. After he received email saying he was dead wrong...{poof}...it was deleted from the site.

[Tacachale]

Sports writing and commentating has always been the biggest cesspool in the entire field of journalism, and it's only gotten worse in the age of the web and 24 hour networks. It combines the worst elements of celebrity reporting, film/cultural "criticism", and half-assed business coverage. But people love their sports, so for whatever reason they're willing to listen to random nitwits just sit around and talk about sports (or worse, talk about people talking about sports, in those annoying cases where media coverage of sports becomes a story in and of itself). The vastest majority of sports coverage is sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Sports writing and commentating has always been the biggest cesspool in the entire field of journalism, and it's only gotten worse in the age of the web and 24 hour networks. It combines the worst elements of celebrity reporting, film/cultural "criticism", and half-assed business coverage. But people love their sports, so for whatever reason they're willing to listen to random nitwits just sit around and talk about sports (or worse, talk about people talking about sports, in those annoying cases where media coverage of sports becomes a story in and of itself). The vastest majority of sports coverage is sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Is it any different on the political front?  Nope. 

[duvaldude08]

Sports writing and commentating has always been the biggest cesspool in the entire field of journalism, and it's only gotten worse in the age of the web and 24 hour networks. It combines the worst elements of celebrity reporting, film/cultural "criticism", and half-assed business coverage. But people love their sports, so for whatever reason they're willing to listen to random nitwits just sit around and talk about sports (or worse, talk about people talking about sports, in those annoying cases where media coverage of sports becomes a story in and of itself). The vastest majority of sports coverage is sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Is it any different on the political front?  Nope.

With us drafting blackmon were going to have all types of attention from now until the end of the season. Some will be negative, hopefully there will be some positive. So we might as well get used to it early.