Better Know the Jacksonville Jaguars: Ask Big Cat Country

I think the Jaguars can be beaten in the air only. I know Chade Henne lately throwed over 50 attempt so I think he can do that. Many depends of the possible return of Rashean Mathis; who is might be the best D (and undisputedy the best DB) player of the Jags. If he can return; it will be tough for do anything for the Dolphins. Also it depends how good protection Henne can get.
The Jags passrush is very weak (to say at least..) but last Sunday it came alive and resulted 3 INT; and 2 sacks.. If the O-line can protect the Dolphins; then you have a shot

 If the Dolphins try to run the ball; they will be not so effective. Since the Jags were torched by Chris Johnson 200+ yards) they stopped everybody on the ground: Thomas Jones around 70; Frank Gore around 60; the Bills around 60 The Texans 68 last week.

If the Jaguars have the ball: Well belive or not MJD is stuggulined in the last 3 weeks. 1TD on Week 11 and that’s it. On week 12 the Jags faced the Bills and MJD cannot reached too good numbers… I think he has an injury; Although he showed life in the very endd of the Texans game; when he was all alone clinching the needed 1st downs-he did i so..

Another place where we have problems: red zone. We scored 1 TD in numeruos RZ possesions in the last 2 games.
Garrard fumbles: He had 12 fumbles so far: partly because of him; partly because of the interior O-line is starting to get reeeeeal old.

Where the Jags strong: Offense: deep roster. MSW; MJD was shut down last week; and the Jags still put 23 points to the board-withTDs from players like Nate Hughes and Ernest Wilford (yeah him…) and big plays from TE rookie Zach Miller; and Marcedes Lewis.
The Jaguars won every close games-except on oppening day in Ingfdy where we lost 2 poins (12-14)…
Run defense is a stonewall lately.
Team charachter-Somebody laways steps up!
Hiome field advantage: we are 5-1 at home this year…
Prediction: veeeery close game; I think it will be a nailbiter. I think because of the Jags winning this yer the close games and playing at home; and starting to co,me together: Jags win 24-23

see Texans, Houston search also Gary Kubiak

If David has a good game; he cn always find 1 or 2 guys for big plays. The Jags receivng corp is better since Jimmy Smith was retired. ! good WR (Mike Sims Walker; Torry Holt; Mike Thomas; and from last sunday I say Nate Hughes-plus another rookie Jarett Dillard who is a young Tory Holt-sadly he is on IR.)
And theTEs: WQell Marcedes Lewis has his best year as a pro; he is playing like a 1st round choice(he was selected there in 2006) finally. Zach Miller a rookie QBturnedTE from Omaha-Nebraska is made the longest TE catch last Sunday. And Ernest Wilford(sounds familiar?) scored a TD last Sunday. So our TEs are in best shape…

The Run-defense playing LIGHT OUT lately: Last 5 games the stats are: KC: 60 yards; NYJ 110 yards-Thomas Jones at home 77 yards; Bills 53 yards (Lynch and Fred jackson combine!); SF 52 yards in SF Frank Gore 33; Houston 52….
You can beat us only in the air I think…

Pass attack is very effective on 3rd downs.
Our TE’s provide 1-2 Big Plays a game. Mareceds Lewis and Zach Miller, ZM had a 55 YAC after one catch.
Our Wr’s get the good done, usually.
Garrard is good when he has more than 4 seconds of blocking.
Ricky Williams can’t run in the inside, but could have success on the outside.

He is on the course to his best season in passing yards.
If he plays good the Jags 90% win. He lead 3 game winning drive this season. He had finally a good cast of weapons! ANd when pewople mention ebow he is always playing lights out in the next game…Very good rusher; 2nd most rushing yards on the eam. Tough to tackle.

BUT he had off days; He lead the leagues with fumbles (12); which is mostly because of his aging interior O-line; but sometimes because he holds the ball too long.

ARE the NR 1 issue in Jville. Aganst the Texans it was franchise low attendence (42000…)
I think we will see many Phins fans hav buy tickets on Sunday. I think it will be 65-35% Jag-Phins fans; I heard the ticketsales are looking on this weekend so far the best in the season. So I think we will se many Miami fans in the “Jack”(local nickname for JMS stadium)

MJD: He is sturgulling lately; maybe becaise of injury-he had 1TD in the last 3 games; and it was on week 11. Load the box against him; it usally help.
Harvey is slowly becoming a very good run-defender; and he had his 1st sack this year (which sidelined Schaub for the enough time the Jags won the game. Groves has got his last chance to stay last week (he lost his starting job to 2 UDFA rookies so far;) on Sunday he started; and played very well. Also he had an INT and an almost TD (he felt to the 4 yard line; without any tackles…)

Ernest is doing good! He scored D last sunday; and he is a reliable aget most of the time. He is playing as a TE. Look for see him on Sundy too.

As far a reggie: mixed feeling; with loth of minuses. He is not playing so well. Every time when there is a big passing game; the hardcore Jags fans wanna see immedialty wherehe on that play. Once he was put to the CB spot; we got burned big time. He has to show something in the last 4 games; or he will be traded away in the offseason. He is on the edge…

We didn’T allow any ST TD I don’t remember any big returns so far.
We must gave credit to Russ Prunell-We feared from the worse when Jack Del Rio hired him; but so far he is good.

As to our retuners: It is Brian Witherspoon and rookie WR Mike Thomas. They didn’t score any TDs; but they are done quite well. But they all do goofd and errors; specialy Witherspoon; although last Week Thomas made an error which costed a Texans 1st down at the 15 yard line (but ended a FG…)

is one of the quickest guys in the league. He’s got some seriously scary speed. He is a smaller guy though, so he doesn’t break tackles often, and last year he was little scary because of his lack of ball security. He’s put on a little weight in the off season and he doesn’t look as vulnerable to strips. If you want to stop him, you’re best off not letting him outside where he can use his speed.
Mike Thomas is like a RB with hybrid WR legs. He’s rocked up in the upper body, but he moves like Stephon Logan from the Steelers. not super shifty, but he breaks tackles and he’s super quick on stop starts.

Pass rusher-(I would sign a FA for that): 12 sacks in 1 year. Jared Allen and Elvis Dumervil has mor alone tha the Jaguars D….

Interior O-line(C; LG: Brad Meester and Vince manuwai are getting old/were not the same after injury
Brad is 10+ years in the league now; he starting to miss the beat-The Jags might keep him for 1 year teach a rookie to the post; but I see not much in hin. Manuwai had an ACL last year. He was a Probowl caliber RG in 2007; he is nowhere to that..

Jaguars will draft 1-2 DBs next year; It almost sure. Pass coverage was not te best in this year…

And a new QB for develop-Jags didn’t draft 1 since 2003-Byron Leftwich. It is time to find David’s successor

David is not an elite QB; but he is good enough to lead a team to the Superbowl; with a good supporting class. He has 1-3 good year I think left with the Jags

1. 4-3 Defensive Player(s), we need an explosive playmaker that will become the face of the defense.
2. QB, to groom.
Tied 3. OG, aging interior line.
Tied 3. OC, above
Tied 4. Secondary Depth
Tied 4. DE depth
5. Complimentary Speed RB, we have a good backup rookie in Rashad Jennings but who knows.

I think we are 5-1 at home.

Arizona; remember? Opening game at home; lay an egg in the 1st half; almost come back in the second…

Would you like me to list any of the dolphins faults in order to prove my point or should we Jaguars fans give an honest opinion with a dose of optimism. “Child, Please”.

I’m level headed. And as far as I can tell he didn’t misrepresent anyone he talked about. He didn’t really focus on the weakness however.
Our weaknesses aren’t in the players he was asked about. Garrard is an above average QB. He doesn’t have a lot of TD’s but that’s because whenever we get into the Redzone we let MJD handle it. But I would take Garrard before a lot of QB’s with better stats.
As for our weaknesses…We really don’t have that many. Just that our biggest weakness is a glaring one, and I’m talking about our lack of a pass rush. It’s really even worse than the stats indicate. Last week against the Texans we finally had a semblance of a pass rush, and even without Mathis and with late trying to come from behind antics from the Texans, the secondary played well.
Our second weakness is our OL. It has been up and down, and early on we were switching people in and out causing a loss of cohesiveness. We also had the luxury of having to suffer through some growing pains of having 2 rookie OT’s.
I wouldn’t be afraid of our WR’s either. I wouldn’t gameplan my defense to stop them, but they make plays when they need to, which in many cases has been the difference.
Even if you guys had Jake Grove I wouldn’t expect you guys to be able to run on us up the middle. Terrance Knighton, John Henderson, Ellison, and Stanley have all performed admirably(All whom of which are better than Tony McDaniel). the only time we’ve been legitimately run on has been in the second Titans game, which had more to do with our secondary missing tackles; something that seems to have been corrected since then.
Now if you guys decide to pull some guards and run at one of our DE’s that isn’t Derrick Harvey we could be in for a long day, because then I imagine Henne would hurt us with a little playaction over the top.
And since you decided to go spouting off about matchups and our schedule keep in mind the Rams nearly beat the Saints and needed 2 pick 6’s to hang in that game. And KC beat the Steelers with a healthy Big Ben. SF nearly beat the Colts. And we played the Colts even better than the Dolphins did.
Bottom of the line is it will be a good game as we matchup well. I do think you guys are the better team because of your better OL and Pass rush. Otherwise I would rather have everyone else on the Jags team, except for maybe backup RB and as of right now Bess is a better pure slot receiver than anyone we have.

aka it will happen in round 1

:)

(if the Jags can defeat them on week 16 may do a favour to the Phins too…)
And by the way although I think the Dolphins has a pretty good chance to go in; there is no guarantee hat MIami will play agains in the postseason (although Sparano’s 5-0 December record is reeeeealy impressive)!