The Jacksonville Jaguars

[copperfiend]

“I can’t imagine a situation where Tim Tebow could be a Jacksonville Jaguar.”

[fsquid]

“I can’t imagine a situation where Tim Tebow could be a Jacksonville Jaguar.”

Damn

[duvaldude08]

hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa he said everything but "Hell No!" This is funny. There goes the "virtual certainity"

[Tacachale]

^Don't rule it out completely. It's obviously a smart call to play down their interest so that they can just pick him up after he's cut, rather than pay some $$$ for him.

[Wacca Pilatka]

hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa he said everything but "Hell No!" This is funny. There goes the "virtual certainity"

The air is fresher!  Food tastes better!  But I waste even more of my time fighting with people on the WOKV and First Coast News Facebook pages!

[duvaldude08]

hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa he said everything but "Hell No!" This is funny. There goes the "virtual certainity"

The air is fresher!  Food tastes better!  But I waste even more of my time fighting with people on the WOKV and First Coast News Facebook pages!

A few things I like about David...everything. First, I love the fact he wanted the job and wanted to be here. He could have weighed his options. Actually, I just read that Khan is the one who encouraged him to interview the with the Jets a second and to shop around to make sure he wanted this job. So David's comments he has made about Jacksonville, in my eyes, are very genuine. This should have happen last season, but its exciting for this franchise to truly hit the reset button. Khan desire to win makes me even more excited. If our founding father Wayne weaver was still here, gene smith and mularkey would still be employed.

And David seems very outspoken also. He nipped that Tebow shit in the bud really quick. He's been around Peyton Manning and Matt Ryan, and a blind man could see Tebow is not a NFL QB. I am too excited. People always ask me " how can you be a Jaguar fan right" I cant even answer that. I just love my city and I love this team, win or lose. I'm actually getting my seat move this year from the 200's to the 100's. If anybody know a good section, let me know.

[Wacca Pilatka]

Join me in 115!

[I-10east]

I'm so glad that this sophomoric Tebow in Jax crap is over, thank God. I'm loving this new GM already, and he didn't even pick a coach or player yet. Anyone who talks about giving up their tickets concerning this crap NEVER was a Jag fan from the get-go.

[Tacachale]

Seriously, I wouldn't be do sure it's over.

[I-10east]

Far as I'm concerned, the Tebow to Jax thing is over.

[Gknee]

“I can’t imagine a situation where Tim Tebow could be a Jacksonville Jaguar.”

Even if he's released.

[duvaldude08]

Seriously, I wouldn't be do sure it's over.

Well if its not, that mean Khan is a liar. And for a fan base that is hanging on a thread, I think he would me more than dumb to play games. That would be the WORST thing he could do is lie, since he is a man of his word. Not to mention, the last time we tried to acquire tebow, it wasnt for QB. Khan told Gene to acquire Tebow and left it up to the coaching staff to decide what he would do on the team. He chose NY for a reason. He was not going to be QB here. If remember, he said he didnt feel "welcomed" by the Jags coaching staff. I also think Cadwell would be an idiot to start his career off lying to a fan base hes trying to win over. What do they benefit from doing that? Caldwell has been around great QB's. He even knows Tebow is trash.

[duvaldude08]

Join me in 115!

Ill check the prices. LOL!

[BridgeTroll]

^ I always liked Harris. He reminded me a lil of MJD with his speed and shiftiness. It's a shame we released him. At the time i guess we 'thought' we had a logjam at RB.

Reminds me of MJD also... Gene Smith let a good one go...

Sadly, Harris' saga is a fitting epitaph for the Gene era.  It was Gene who discovered him as an undrafted FA and gave him an opportunity to show his potential, but then let go of him.

I was utterly pissed when we let him go. Im not even a GM or scout but seen the potential in him to be explosive. He was powerful and fast. Im not shocked he's doing well. Im happy for him.

Sorry to keep posting stuff on this guy... but I find his story fascinating...

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/harris-sells-team-on-his-abilities-f28arjm-186409211.html

Running back keeps learning nuances of job


By Tom Silverstein of the Journal Sentinel

Jan. 10, 2013

Green Bay - DuJuan Harris is a competitor.
Once he starts something, he pours all he has into it.

Maybe it comes from being 5-foot-7 and not being taken seriously as a football player. Or maybe it's because he just doesn't like to lose. Or maybe it's because he doesn't want to be known as a quitter.

Whatever the case, it wasn't surprising to hear the Green Bay Packers' new starting running back talk about going back to finish what he started at Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram Arlington in Jacksonville, Fla., once the football season ends.

"I just got off the phone with them," Harris said this week as he prepared for the Packers' divisional playoff game in San Francisco. "They just told me they sold 10 cars. That's live. That is live. Why not be a part of that?"

Harris was only one week into his new job as a salesman there when Packers director of pro personnel Eliot Wolf called to tell him the Packers would like to add him to the team's practice squad. He had been cut by the Jaguars at the end of training camp, claimed on waivers by the Steelers and released four days later.

Who knows when the next call might have come, so there was no hesitation with his answer.

At the dealership, they understood.

"Why not?" said sales manager Roland Helton. "You've got to try it. Before he left, I told him, 'I want see you do the Lambeau Leap,' And I got to see him do it."

It took awhile for Harris to get to that stage, but making it here is just one phase of the professional dream. Staying here is the other.

Harris virtually has come out of nowhere to become the team's lead back, leapfrogging Alex Green, Ryan Grant and James Starks in just the couple of weeks he has been on the 53-man roster.

In the five games in which he has played, he has rushed 34 times for 157 yards (4.6 average) and scored two touchdowns. He has also caught two passes for 17 yards. The Packers are 5-1 since he came aboard and have topped the 100-yard rushing mark in three of those five games.

Harris will face his toughest test Saturday night against the rugged 49ers defense, but he doesn't appear fazed by that challenge or the magnitude of the game. He has tried to approach things the same way since the day he began playing cornerback in practice to help prepare the offense.

"Since I've been here I've just been trying to help the team win," Harris said. "Even when I was on the practice squad I was trying to give them a real look. My mind-set hasn't changed."

Only time will tell if Harris is the real deal or just another in a long line of backs who have had their 15 minutes of fame here such as Samkon Gado, Dimitri Nance, DeShawn Wynn, Najeh Davenport and De'Mond Parker.

All the Packers know is that right now, Harris is helping them win. His dart-and-dash running style is something the Packers have not had for a long time and opponents are finding themselves keenly aware that he can be past the line of scrimmage before they even catch sight of him.

His enormous thighs, strong upper body and large, soft hands got him a shot at the practice squad, but it has been his competitiveness, studiousness and unflappability that has taken him beyond the scout team.

"I think he's kind of a 'Transformer,' " quarterback Aaron Rodgers said recently. "There's more than meets the eye with DuJuan. He's a very tough guy. He's got great athleticism, agility; he makes some great jump cuts.

"He's a little guy, but he's tough. You have to give him a lot of credit. He's learned the offense the last few weeks and studied, obviously, and the package for him is just going to continue to grow."

Shortly before Harris was signed, running backs coach Alex Van Pelt was informed by the personnel department that he was going to be given a new guy to train. He had just lost Cedric Benson for the year and Starks for at least a month, so his mind was on the guys already in the meeting room.

That is, until he actually met Harris, face-to . . . well, let's just say in person.

"They just told me, 'You have a new guy named DuJuan and he'll be in there today,' " said Van Pelt, a 6-1 former NFL quarterback. "He was just different than other body types we've had, which is good. Once he stepped on the practice field that first week, it was, 'OK, I see something to him.' He's a talented runner."

In the five weeks Harris was on the practice squad, he opened eyes serving both as a look-team cornerback for the offense and a running back for the defense. With his Rubik's Cube body frame, stylish dreadlocks and on-field chattiness, Harris quickly became a favorite among his teammates.

Harris made his debut at home against Detroit, getting the ball on his very first play from scrimmage because coach Mike McCarthy had wanted to get a look at him the week before against Minnesota but never found the right place to insert him.

A Lambeau Field crowd bore witness to Harris' explosiveness when, after taking the handoff from Rodgers, he burst through the line for an 11-yard gain. He finished with 31 yards on seven carries, including a 14-yard touchdown run that put his tremendous leg strength on display when he did his first Lambeau Leap.

Harris continued to have an impact in the team's victories over Tennessee and Chicago and busted loose for 70 yards rushing and 17 yards receiving in a season-ending loss to the Vikings. He followed that performance up with 100 total yards and a touchdown in a wild-card rematch.

"DuJuan brings that extra element of speed," Van Pelt said. "He's a natural athlete."

Harris has come a long way since joining the Jaguars as an undrafted free agent out of Troy, where he rushed for 2,635 yards and 27 touchdowns and caught 79 passes for 553 yards and five touchdowns. He has had to pick up an offense whose pass protection scheme is extremely challenging and mesh with a new offensive line.

Upon arriving in Green Bay, Harris received intensive one-on-one tutoring from Van Pelt. The two basically started out the way the other backs had in training camp and went over everything from how the holes in the line are numbered to which calls mean the play is going right and which mean it is going left.

"I'm still trying to learn it," he said. "I'm getting there, progressing. Still a long way away."

While pass protection has been the hardest thing for Harris to learn, he is a willing blocker. And in the wild-card victory, his presence in the backfield on passing downs proved fruitful when he caught a pair of check-down passes from Rodgers and turned them into substantial gains.

The Packers are hoping this aspect of his game will help them attack the open zones in Cover-2 defenses, although the 49ers don't play the traditional Tampa-2 and won't be as susceptible to those routes. Harris is likely to split time with Starks, who is expected to return this weekend, but he'll get first crack and if he is effective may render the other backs unnecessary.

Regardless of what happens Saturday night, Harris knows one thing is for sure. He's going back to selling cars when the season is over. They've been doing good business there recently and he is determined to sell his first. He isn't one to give up so easily.

"He can come back if he wants to," Helton said

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

'nuf said.