Making Jaguar Magazine Cover, need input!

[duvaldude08]

Okay guys. My assignment in my desktop publishing class to make a magazine cover for a sports magazine. Well, we already know this is not going to be anything positive. In the issue I want to highlight how bad the the jags are doing, If there is hope for Gabbert, and also highlights some positives. Im also going to find the worse picture of gabbert that I can, which shouldnt be hard. Maybe one with him getting sacked or laying on the ground LOL I wanted the storyline to be something like "Cinderella Team No More; What happened to the Jacksonville Jaguars?" Remember this is just a cover page.

Thoughts?

[Noone]

"Welcome to the Shelter"
The cats are bruised, scratched, abandoned, LOST, adrift, scared, timid, dirty, incoherent, aloof, fragmented, disoriented, homeless.

At the 9/24/13 Jacksonville city council meeting someone during Public comments read a piece of legislation that said the stadium can be used as a homeless shelter.

Open the "silos", Open the "Shelter" The cats need to FIND strength, desire, determination, persistence, purpose, cohesiveness,  conviction, confidence, teamwork.

The entire community will now be able to rally around our taxpayer subsidized shelter and hopefully bring an NFL championship to Jacksonville that will make our Downtown a Destination and not a pass through.   

[Cheshire Cat]

I just realized how young Gabbert is.  Wow, considering his age everyone has sure loaded a burden on his back.  He needs more living under his belt in order to mature as a player.  I think he deserves a chance but at the same time wonder at the wisdom of the Jag's leadership saddling him with so many expectations for a team with such a history of loss.  I kind of hope you are not to hard on him in your cover piece.  Of course I am a mom with a son about his age.  lol

[Keith-N-Jax]

"Welcome to the Shelter"
The cats are bruised, scratched, abandoned, LOST, adrift, scared, timid, dirty, incoherent, aloof, fragmented, disoriented, homeless.

At the 9/24/13 Jacksonville city council meeting someone during Public comments read a piece of legislation that said the stadium can be used as a homeless shelter.

Open the "silos", Open the "Shelter" The cats need to FIND strength, desire, determination, persistence, purpose, cohesiveness,  conviction, confidence, teamwork.

The entire community will now be able to rally around our taxpayer subsidized shelter and hopefully bring an NFL championship to Jacksonville that will make our Downtown a Destination and not a pass through.   

LOL - I needed this

[Wacca Pilatka]

I just realized how young Gabbert is.  Wow, considering his age everyone has sure loaded a burden on his back.  He needs more living under his belt in order to mature as a player.  I think he deserves a chance but at the same time wonder at the wisdom of the Jag's leadership saddling him with so many expectations for a team with such a history of loss.  I kind of hope you are not to hard on him in your cover piece.  Of course I am a mom with a son about his age.  lol

I agree with your point, but I want to make the observation that the Jaguars' "history of losing" is often overrated.  I don't enjoy having had five non-winning seasons in a row (one of them was an 8-8) and looking at a sixth, but when some in the community make the Jaguars out to be catastrophic, historically inept perennial losers, it frustrates me.  Obviously you were not doing that, but since many do, here is some perspective:

1) The Cardinals haven't won more than 9 games in a season since the mid-1970s
2) The Buccaneers didn't have a winning season between 1982 and 1997, and were 2-14 three times in one four-year span
3) The Bengals didn't have a winning season between 1990 and 2005
4) The Raiders have not had a winning season since 2002
5) The Lions have won one playoff game since 1957
6) The Cowboys have won one playoff game since 1996

No one's happy with the current state of the Jaguars and with the damage the two previous regimes did, but we were last in the playoffs in 2007 - we're nowhere near a historic run of failure yet.

[KenFSU]

"Blaine, how do you feel about the Jaguars' playoff chances this year?"

[I-10east]

I agree with your point, but I want to make the observation that the Jaguars' "history of losing" is often overrated.  I don't enjoy having had five non-winning seasons in a row (one of them was an 8-8) and looking at a sixth, but when some in the community make the Jaguars out to be catastrophic, historically inept perennial losers, it frustrates me.  Obviously you were not doing that, but since many do, here is some perspective:

1) The Cardinals haven't won more than 9 games in a season since the mid-1970s
2) The Buccaneers didn't have a winning season between 1982 and 1997, and were 2-14 three times in one four-year span
3) The Bengals didn't have a winning season between 1990 and 2005
4) The Raiders have not had a winning season since 2002
5) The Lions have won one playoff game since 1957
6) The Cowboys have won one playoff game since 1996

No one's happy with the current state of the Jaguars and with the damage the two previous regimes did, but we were last in the playoffs in 2007 - we're nowhere near a historic run of failure yet.

+1000

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

"Blaine, how do you feel about the Jaguars' playoff chances this year?"

I think Jim Mora can answer that better....  (Sorry, it's obligatory when playoffs are mentioned)

http://www.youtube.com/v/U7fjDS0jKiE?

[duvaldude08]

Okay how did I know this topic was going to take a wrong turn? geez

[Wacca Pilatka]

Okay how did I know this topic was going to take a wrong turn? geez

What about a feature on the problems with the interior line or drafting history?  There's a lot of photographic evidence of the O-line struggles that could make for a good cover.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Okay how did I know this topic was going to take a wrong turn? geez

What about a feature on the problems with the interior line or drafting history?  There's a lot of photographic evidence of the O-line struggles that could make for a good cover.

Better? 

[Wacca Pilatka]

I don't know...he's still upright in that shot.

The play diagrams/analyses on Big Cat Country have a lot of stills and GIFs that might be useful to you.  Here is a positive one breaking down Cyprien's sack from last week.  http://www.bigcatcountry.com/2013/9/26/4769644/jaguars-film-room-jonathan-cyprien-hustle-play

[urbaknight]

I caught the Arsineo Hall show last night and they introduced him as " a man who can beat the Jacksonville Jaguars all by himself!" I guess anyone can take a shot at the Jags these days, and it's valid.

[KenFSU]

Here you go buddy:

[BridgeTroll]

Okay guys. My assignment in my desktop publishing class to make a magazine cover for a sports magazine.

Is it fair to your classmates to have all of us helping with you assignment?  My daughter used to ask me for "help" on her projects... I learned very quickly...