The Jacksonville Jaguars

[duvaldude08]

On the Ravens site they said they had their feathers plucked!      Is Duvaldude happy now? 

Heeyyyyyy..why pick on poor lil ole me?? Im just a teal-skinned black man who loves his Jags

[Dashing Dan]

Jacksonville secondary has blanketed receivers like tweens on Bieber.

awesome !

[duvaldude08]

Gotta love our fans! I am watching the home shopping network. And I was getting pissed because they were showing a Jacket for EVERY SINGLE TEAM except the Jags. (cant even get respect for from the home shopping network). a lady from Jacksonville called in and was saying how wonderful the jackets were.... then blasted them for not ever showing any Jaguars merchandise and there models not ever wearing any. She went on to talk about Gabbert, Mojo, etc. They went and pulled out a Jaguar Jacket to show!! gotta love our fans!!!

[Wacca Pilatka]

Two years ago I sent a long rant to the NFL Shop because one of its catalogs did not show a single piece of Jaguars merchandise (and very little for most of the other small market teams either).  I counted how many times in a single catalog they highlighted pieces for the glamour teams and sent them the results - in one catalog there were over 30 pieces of Steelers, Bears, Cowboys, etc. merchandise featured vs. nothing for us and maybe one or two pieces each for Buffalo, St. Louis, Tampa, and Carolina.  Since then they have done better at featuring at least one or two Jaguar items in each catalog and featuring the other less heralded teams a bit more too.  I'm making a difference!  Or something.

[Keith-N-Jax]

Thats good, been a long time since the Cowboys won a Superbowl, but I see they're still the pundits glamour girls

[duvaldude08]

Two years ago I sent a long rant to the NFL Shop because one of its catalogs did not show a single piece of Jaguars merchandise (and very little for most of the other small market teams either).  I counted how many times in a single catalog they highlighted pieces for the glamour teams and sent them the results - in one catalog there were over 30 pieces of Steelers, Bears, Cowboys, etc. merchandise featured vs. nothing for us and maybe one or two pieces each for Buffalo, St. Louis, Tampa, and Carolina.  Since then they have done better at featuring at least one or two Jaguar items in each catalog and featuring the other less heralded teams a bit more too.  I'm making a difference!  Or something.

HAHA I just turned it back on there and now they are showing our Jacket..... Smucks !

[Wacca Pilatka]

Gotta love our fans! I am watching the home shopping network. And I was getting pissed because they were showing a Jacket for EVERY SINGLE TEAM except the Jags. (cant even get respect for from the home shopping network). a lady from Jacksonville called in and was saying how wonderful the jackets were.... then blasted them for not ever showing any Jaguars merchandise and there models not ever wearing any. She went on to talk about Gabbert, Mojo, etc. They went and pulled out a Jaguar Jacket to show!! gotta love our fans!!!

On Monday night I put on the NFL Shop show on QVC and the hosts seemed to be going out of their way to show the Jaguars item in almost every group of items (and the host seemed to be going out of his way to say something to the effect of "Look! Jaguars!" most of the time, too).  No models wore them, but they were consistently shown.  Making noise can make things happen.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Other musings of the positional coaching situation in Jacksonville:

Jaguars Owner Wayne Weaver partly to blame for Gabbert's struggles
by Adam Stites on Nov 2, 2011 4:08 PM EDT in Jacksonville Jaguars News

In Pete Prisco's Monday Musings article this week, he mentioned that Blaine Gabbert has struggled with mechanics so far this season and went on to say:

"Some in the organization think it's only a matter of changing the coaching staff, especially the way he's coached, to get him to improve. There's a feeling in the organization that he's not getting taught the proper fundamentals."

While it's concerning, it's not incredibly surprising considering the quarterback coach for the Jaguars this season is someone who has very little experience with coaching quarterbacks. In Mike Sheppard's 18 seasons of coaching the NFL, this is just his sixth as a quarterbacks coach.

He is in his first year with the Jaguars after serving as the wide receivers coach for the Bengals. His only two experiences as a quarterbacks coach were three years in New Orleans when Aaron Brooks was the starter and two years in Seattle when Jon Kitna was starter.

So how is this Wayne Weaver's fault?



Prior to hiring Mike Sheppard, the Jaguars had one of the promising young coaches in the NFL grooming their quarterbacks. Mike Shula signed with the Jaguars in January of 2007 as quarterbacks coach after four years as head coach at Alabama and just missing out on the Miami Dolphins head coaching job.

It was that following season in 2007 that saw the emergence of David Garrard as starter of the Jaguars following a new throwing motion that as Vic Ketchman put, made him look "like a pitcher who's decided to take something off his fastball."

However, Shula left following the 2010 season and made a lateral move to become the quarterbacks coach for the Carolina Panthers. What kind of contract he received with the Panthers was not made public, but in a Tania Ganguli article about the departure of Shula she revealed some interesting information about Shula's job security in Jacksonville.

"Shula operated on one-year deals each of his four seasons with the Jaguars, giving him free rein to pursue other opportunities."

Couple that fact with the knowledge that Weaver didn't want to sign any positional coaches to anything more than one year deals in this year's offseason and it's easy to see why Shula would leave and why other coaches wouldn't want to come to Jacksonville. It also explains why the Jaguars would be forced to sign a quarterbacks coach who hadn't coached the position in seven years.

Meanwhile, Shula went to Carolina where a fellow rookie quarterback, Cam Newton, has made impressive improvements in his mechanics as an NFL quarterback and is probably the leading candidate for rookie of the year so far. Blaine Gabbert on the other hand has some mechanical issues, is completing 45.7% of his passes and there are feelings within the front office that he is being poorly coached.

http://www.bigcatcountry.com/2011/11/2/2533502/jaguars-owner-wayne-weaver-partly-to-blame-for-gabberts-struggles

[Tacachale]

Other musings of the positional coaching situation in Jacksonville:

Jaguars Owner Wayne Weaver partly to blame for Gabbert's struggles
by Adam Stites on Nov 2, 2011 4:08 PM EDT in Jacksonville Jaguars News

In Pete Prisco's Monday Musings article this week, he mentioned that Blaine Gabbert has struggled with mechanics so far this season and went on to say:

"Some in the organization think it's only a matter of changing the coaching staff, especially the way he's coached, to get him to improve. There's a feeling in the organization that he's not getting taught the proper fundamentals."

While it's concerning, it's not incredibly surprising considering the quarterback coach for the Jaguars this season is someone who has very little experience with coaching quarterbacks. In Mike Sheppard's 18 seasons of coaching the NFL, this is just his sixth as a quarterbacks coach.

He is in his first year with the Jaguars after serving as the wide receivers coach for the Bengals. His only two experiences as a quarterbacks coach were three years in New Orleans when Aaron Brooks was the starter and two years in Seattle when Jon Kitna was starter.

So how is this Wayne Weaver's fault?



Prior to hiring Mike Sheppard, the Jaguars had one of the promising young coaches in the NFL grooming their quarterbacks. Mike Shula signed with the Jaguars in January of 2007 as quarterbacks coach after four years as head coach at Alabama and just missing out on the Miami Dolphins head coaching job.

It was that following season in 2007 that saw the emergence of David Garrard as starter of the Jaguars following a new throwing motion that as Vic Ketchman put, made him look "like a pitcher who's decided to take something off his fastball."

However, Shula left following the 2010 season and made a lateral move to become the quarterbacks coach for the Carolina Panthers. What kind of contract he received with the Panthers was not made public, but in a Tania Ganguli article about the departure of Shula she revealed some interesting information about Shula's job security in Jacksonville.

"Shula operated on one-year deals each of his four seasons with the Jaguars, giving him free rein to pursue other opportunities."

Couple that fact with the knowledge that Weaver didn't want to sign any positional coaches to anything more than one year deals in this year's offseason and it's easy to see why Shula would leave and why other coaches wouldn't want to come to Jacksonville. It also explains why the Jaguars would be forced to sign a quarterbacks coach who hadn't coached the position in seven years.

Meanwhile, Shula went to Carolina where a fellow rookie quarterback, Cam Newton, has made impressive improvements in his mechanics as an NFL quarterback and is probably the leading candidate for rookie of the year so far. Blaine Gabbert on the other hand has some mechanical issues, is completing 45.7% of his passes and there are feelings within the front office that he is being poorly coached.

http://www.bigcatcountry.com/2011/11/2/2533502/jaguars-owner-wayne-weaver-partly-to-blame-for-gabberts-struggles

Sigh. Too typical.

[downtownjag]

Please fire any and everyone associated with the offense.  Seriously.

[Dashing Dan]

This is the same problem that the city government is having.  Unless you can find better people to take their places, you can't solve your problems by firing people.

[duvaldude08]

Please fire any and everyone associated with the offense.  Seriously.

Yup! The defense coaching is fine. All coaching staff associate with offense needs to be fired!

[tufsu1]

was the defensive coaching staff ok a few years back when we were ranked near the bottom?  if so, what changed?

oh yeah...we got good players!

[downtownjag]

The defensive playcalling isn't by Jack anymore, and this is the first year of that.  Very telling.

[duvaldude08]

The defensive playcalling isn't by Jack anymore, and this is the first year of that.  Very telling.

Yup! Since WW told him told he could not call the plays anymore, things have improved drastically. On top of the new additions. They still have some holes and give up early plays, but they are top 10s so hey